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Overview
Come and learn Cake Decoration Skills and techniques from our expert lecturers. Improve on making it, baking it, decorating it, and finishing it with this fabulous two week course.
During this class, you will learn and improve your skills in:
- Preparing ingredients for baking.
- How to bake a good madeira sponge.
- How to make ganache and buttercream.
- How to prepare and level a sponge cake in preparation for ganache.
- How to cover a deep cake with sugar paste and create a good clean finish with a sharp edge.
- How to make beautiful sugar wired and non-wired peony, roses, and foliage for your finished cake.
- How to stencil a deep tier cake.
- How to apply brush embroidery.
- How to stack cakes and much more…
All equipment and materials will be provided (including ingredients to bake Madeira sponge and sugarpaste to decorate)
This course is funded through the National Transition Training Fund and Young Person’s Guarantee.
Applicants aged 25 and over should be unemployed, at the risk of redundancy or have been made redundant at any time from 1 March 2020.
Applicants whose first language is not English should have minimum SQA ESOL National 5 or equivalent for NC/NQ courses and ESOL Higher or equivalent for HNC/D courses.