Key details
- Date: 25 June - 30 July 2024
- Sessions: Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
- No. sessions: 6
- Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 15
- Cost: FREE - £36
About this course
This course is a beginner guide to cupcake decorating. You will learn skills and techniques using ready to roll icing and sugar florist paste mixed together or modelling paste, to produce a selection of summer themed cupcake toppers including ice cream, watermelon, beach ball, bucket and spade, fish, starfish, and seaweed. Some previous experience will be required to attend the course.
By attending this course, you will learn how to:
• Produce a fondant ice cream topper
• Produce a fondant watermelon topper
• Produce a fondant beach ball topper
• Produce a fondant bucket and spade topper
• Produce a fondant fish topper
• Produce a fondant starfish and seaweed topper
• Learn how to pipe buttercream on to a cupcake
By the end of the course, you will have produced a selection of summer themed decorations to enhance any celebration cupcake or cake.
Resources required by attendees
- Cupcakes, buttercream, piping nozzle of choice and piping bag (Optional)
- Ready to roll icing and sugar florist paste or modelling paste
- Board and rolling pin
- Corn flour pouch
- Modelling tools – ball tool, dresden tool,
- Edible glue
- Foam pad
- Cocktail sticks
- Craft knife or small knife
- Paint brushes
- Scissors
- Small circle cutter for the beach ball and a leaf shape cutter.
- Dusting powders or concentrated gel food colouring Colours-Ice cream: brown, yellow, pink. Watermelon: white icing, red, black, and green. Beach ball: orange, yellow. Bucket and spade: yellow, red, and silver. Fish: white icing, orange and black. Starfish: Orange and or red. Please note if you prefer other colours bring along.
- Note pad and pen.
Booking your place and fee information
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
- Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
- Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
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