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ABC Cake Decorating

Learn the art of cake decorating, including Royal Icing work, piped flowers, covering a cake, sugar moulding and flood work. By the end of this course you will be impressing family and friends with your new skills.
Please note $100 extra for kit to be purchased from teacher on first day of class.

Entry Requirements

None.

Student Instructions

Please bring all of these items for the first lesson: Please bring an apron, washing up cloth, drying towel, plastic dinner mat-no design, small glass mixing bowls, small hand whisk, small butter spatula or palette knife, flat bladed sharp medium size knife, sharp scissors, corn flour and a piece of stocking cut into a 15cm section.1 egg white, 250g icing sugar, extra icing sugar, teaspoon 250 g castor sugar, plastic wrap, bake and glide and wax wrap, notepad and pen. Plus a flat ended dusting brushes and one #0 paint brush which is not required until the end of the course. Non skid rubber matting and a large box to carry things home in.
You will also need to bring a box with a non skid mat to carry your cake in.
Equipment Sales: A basic equipment kit will be available for purchase from the teacher at the first lesson (due to some availability shortages from suppliers in the past). This will also help if you are uncertain as to what to get. The cost is approximately $100 and is to be paid to teacher on the first night.
Kit includes: cake smoothers, tubes – all the ones you will be using, piping bag paper, flower nails, polystyrene dummie, boards, small whisks and pettinice/plastic icing.
All powder colours are available for purchase throughout the course.
Equipment Suppliers on the Gold Coast

• Spotlight – Nerang-Southport Rd, Ashmore
• Sugarartcreations – 0406–110-803- Helen Dissell

Topics

• Hygiene
• Royal icing work including: Piped Flowers, decoration and presentation and covering a cake
• Base and side borders, sugar moulding and flood work
• Technique
• Decorating with piped flowers and leaves.

Career Prospects

Yes.

Delivery Style

Hands-on tuition.

Outcome

Personal development and skills growth. Understanding the fundamentals in working with sugar medium, including design, proportion and balance and the ability to move on to more advanced techniques with knowledge learnt and applied.