COURSE 1: Building Buttercream Skills (Decorating Basics)

Decorating Basics Course is the perfect place to start!

Your instructor will show you the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake.
You will understand tips on how to bake a great cake, see how to make and colour icing and learn the best way to ice the cake with buttercream icing. You will also practice the three keys of successful decorating, enabling you to approach each technique the right way for great results.

Along the way, you will learn to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. You will also decorate cookies, cupcakes… and of course cakes! Not only will you quickly learn just how easy it is to create the perfect cake for any occasion but you will also get to share the fun with other students, who encourage you along the way.

Topics Covered in Decorating Basics:

• Tips on how to bake a great cake
• How to make buttercream icing
• Using decorating bags and couplers
• Icing the cake
• Leveling and torting and filling the cake
• Using the Star Tip, Drop Flower, Rosette
• Dimensional Decorating
• Shell, Pompom Flowers, Leaves
• Filling and Icing a cupcake
• Guidelines for Elementary Cake Design
• Printing, Writing
• Piping Gel pattern transfer
• Ribbon Rose
• Guidelines for decorating your cake

We will provide:

• Decorating Basics Course Book
• Decorating Basics Course Kit

Course Kit Includes:

• 12 Decorating Tips
• 4 Standard Couplers
• 2-10 inch re-usable Featherweight bags
• 6 Disposable Decorating Bags
• 6 Parchment Triangles
• 1.5incg Flower Nail
• Cupcake Nail
• Decorator Brush
• 12 Flower Template Stickers
• 9 inch Spatula
• Practice Board with Stand and Pattern

You will need to Bring for Lesson 1:

• Apron
• Icing Colours
• Small Notebook to Take Down Notes
• Gloves & Facemasks

Note: The instructor will guide you on the requirements for the other lessons.