Key details
- Date: 3 June 2024
- Time: 10am - 12pm
- Venue: Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 15
- Cost: FREE - £6
About this course
This course is a beginner guide to decorating and covering a small cake. You will learn how to roll out the fondant icing and cover a dummy cake, using smoothers and a knife or pizza cutter.
You will learn skills and techniques to smooth the icing in preparation to decorate with frills and a bow.
By attending this course, you will have learn how to cover a dummy cake in fondant and then decorate it with frills and a bow. We will cover:
• How to soften and roll out the fondant
• How to place the fondant onto the dummy cake
• How to smooth the icing
• How to add frills and a bow to complete the cake
Resources required by attendees
- Dummy cake
- Fondant Icing using any colour of choice
- Board
- Rolling pin
- Corn flour
- Ball tool
- Dresden tool
- Cell pad
- Drying foam
- Small circle cutter for ruffles: 50/50 fondant florist paste Fold the circle in half, half again and pinch, S shape.
- Edible glue
- Cocktail stick
- Craft knife or knife
- Edible dust
- Paintbrushes for glue and dusting
- 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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Book your place
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