Professional Cake Decorating
Do you aspire to audition for bake off, produce your own celebration cakes for birthdays, anniversaries or even weddings? If so, this is the course for you.
The Professional Cake Decorating course provides an appropriate basis for self-employment or a progression route from or to Part-time Patisserie level 2 course.
Delivered by a highly experienced cake decorating professional, the course runs for 10 weeks and is designed to enable learners to develop their skills in cake decoration and sugarcraft.
Baking of a range of cakes, the course covers a range of traditional and contemporary techniques including crumb coating, stacking, piping, quilting, modelling and fault line techniques as well as working with fondant, flower paste and ganache.
All ingredients are supplied, although you will be required to purchase end products if you wish to take them home. Specialist personal equipment will need to be supplied by the learner.
Applicants will require a good standard of spoken English and a strong interest in artistic cake decoration.
*This course is not available to learners under 18.
This short course is not government funded, therefore low income or unemployment fee waivers are not available and additional learning support cannot be provided.
Please call (01206) 712777 for more information.
Course Content
The course includes:
Baking different cakes both afternoon tea and celebration
Chocolate Tempering
Introduction to sugar paste and its uses
Making one of a selection of cakes using available flavours
Coating a cake and a board with sugar paste
You will then learn how to:
Use different types of fillings and finishes buttercream  ,Swiss meringue buttercream , curds and chocolate ganache.
Assemble a tiered cake
Introduction to working with sugar flower paste
You will learn how to make unwired and wired flowers using cutters and impression moulds.
Techniques will include:
- How to colour using both paste and dust colours.
- Wiring with different gauge wires, use of stamens and how to apply florist tape.
- How to assemble flowers to the cake
- How to finish board and decorate cake with royal icing.
Professional Cake Decorating
The Professional Cake Decorating course provides an appropriate basis for self-employment or a progression route from or to Part-time Patisserie level 2 or 3 certificate or diploma level courses.
| Location | Colchester |
|---|---|
| Duration | 10 weeks |
| Campus / Adult Skills Centre | Colchester Campus |
| Start Date | TBC |
| Attendance | Thursdays: 5pm - 9pm |
| Price | £315 |
Please be aware that submissions for registering interest will be deleted from our records one year after they have been submitted.
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