Course Details
- Course Length: 8-10 days, weekday groups meet twice per week (usually Tuesday and Thursday) and Saturday groups meet once per week. Morning classes are from 10am - 1:30pm and evening classes are from 6pm - 9pm
- Class Schedule: Please refer to our calendar
- Total cost of the class is $1,100. Students can use ShopPay on our website to easily pay in full at checkout, or to split your purchase into regular payments with Pay Installments.
- Class includes: all of the ingredients for the first rum cake baked in the class, recipes, and a completion certificate issued by Cake Art (if the course is completed satisfactorily).
- List of materials that students will need for the class will be given once registration is complete but students will need a 8 x 3 cake mold for the first class. If students have this cake mold they can bring it to the class or they can also purchase the cake mold at our store.
Course Description:
This cake decorating course provides a comprehensive education in the world of decorating with sugar; developing it in a practical and professional way. You will learn all techniques, procedures and tips from our specialized instructors who teach the students step by step to make large scale cakes and exquisite decorations successfully. Then, students get to show what they have learned in order to move to higher levels and learn more advanced techniques. This course has been developed and tested successfully for over 7 years. This is a great opportunity for those who wish to enjoy this delicious art and learn cake decorating in a short period of time.
What you will learn:
- In addition to the initial list of basic tools provided at the beginning, additional tools may be requested throughout the course.
- Delicious recipes and different baking techniques.
- How to make your cake moist
- Marbling technique
- How to make Delicious and commercial fillings
- Learn about proportions
- Recipe and preparation of buttercream, application of color and different decoration techniques.
- Gain confidence in the application of decorative techniques
- Introduction to fondant including techniques for covering real or fake cakes, square or round with rolled fondant, and cake leveling techniques to achieve a perfect finish.
- Learn to use different tools, cutting, rollers, silicones, markers, etc., to elaborate decorative techniques such as bows, textures, draping, lace, ruffles, and more.
- Instructions to make the fabric rose in fondant.
- Technique of making edible and decorative metallic, pearl, and satin finishes, different prints, and the Channel technique for cakes.
- Learn the benefits of real glaze, from elementary glaze to glue ornaments made with fondant, filled surfaces, edges, contours, shapes and various decorative details, even advanced as coarse and fine embroidery.
- Composition and idea, the design concept of proportion, and building procedure for tiered cakes including technical installation and correct assembly.
- Students conduct their own project making a real three-tiered cake, using decorative elements and techniques with classic or contemporary styles, learned through this course in order to obtain the certificate of the course from Cake Art.
Haven’t found what you are looking for? We also offer private classes, where we can customize and create a class just for you! Call us at (305) 591-1532 and find out more!