Sugar Flowers and Cake Design
This course will give you all the knowledge you need in delivering the perfect arrangement suitable for any wedding cake or occasion. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of working with sugar paste, creating flowers and sprays in sugar and modelling in sugar.
Entry Requirements
None.
Student Instructions
Please bring following items to first lesson:
Apron, washing up cloth, drying towel, plastic dinner mat- no design, small glass mixing bowl, small butter spatula or palette knife, 1 egg white, 250g icing sugar, Ready made royal icing recipe available on the sugarartcreations website.
Plastic wrap, notepad and pen, oasis for arranging flowers is available at Spotlight or florists, 24# green covered wire, 30# or 33# white covered wire, frymaster or copha, powder colours, nile green (light) green florist tape, embroidery scissors or fine sharp scissors, thin small sock needle, basic tool set including balling tool and veining tool, small rolling pin tool like an inside of a fax roll about 15 cm long-bathroom rail is also very good, bubble sponge 10” piece or rippled sponge, flat ended paint brushes, No 2 and 000 fine paint brush, miniature jam container or empty nail polish bottle, hardened plastic tile for rolling out on i.e. rolling out cake decorators board nylon stocking or muslin cloth, cornflour, shoe box, Non-skid mating, white tissues
Rose petal, calyx and leaf cutters, blossom cutters, frangipani and other required metals cutters to be used in course – all available for purchase in the class. Also edible powder colours available for purchase in the class.
Tylose powder (available for purchase at the class) please purchase this at class as there are different grades. You can also purchase the superior grade at the listed shops- It is called Tylose C1000P Superior grade from Sugarartcreations.
Equipment Suppliers on the Gold Coast:
- Spotlight – Nerang-Southport Rd, Ashmore
- Sugarartcreations – 0406–110-803- Helen Dissell
Topics
Stage I class – Flowers covered in this course will be frangipani, freesia, rose, foliage, blossom and honeysuckle
Stage II class to be offered later Flowers will be Lily, gerbera, chrysanthemum, tulip, daisy and sunflower
Career Prospects
Yes.
Delivery Style
Hands-on tuition.
Outcomes
Personal development and skills growth understanding the fundamentals in working with sugar paste creating flowers sprays in sugar and modelling in sugar. This course will give you all the knowledge you need in delivering the perfect arrangement suitable for any wedding cake or occasion.
