Foundation wedding cake course – 4 Day

By the end of the course, students will have completed a 2 tier wedding cake, decorated with gum paste flowers i.e. roses and filler flowers. Learn how to make a flexible and sturdy gum paste that will enable you to create thin, realistic looking petals. As there are certain techniques which have to be observed in preparation of real fruit cakes, the top tier covered will a real 7 inch fruit cake and the bottom a dummy. You will get the recipe for the fruitcake, but the cake will be provided by the school at an extra cost of $20. (However, if you wish to provide your own cake, you are welcomed to do so. The cake will have to be a seven inch round cake, 3 inch in height:

Students will be provided with workable recipes, diagrams, pictures and details of the flowers taught.

Lesson 1

• Techniques for making of buds and centres for roses
• Making of rose leaves and techniques in veining
• Techniques in wiring
• Shaping of small filler flowers 1.e. Stephanotis, lilies of the valley (new technique), Mexican hat techniques, daisies

Lesson 2

• Assembling of roses, calyx
• Techniques in preparing the cake boards
• Colouring and shading the flowers and techniques to achieve a realistic effect

Lesson 3

• Attaching the top tier cake to the bottom tier with pillars. (Choice of pillars according to the student's selection. Students may wish to purchase from the school or bring their own pillars.)
• Assembling of flowers into sprays: techniques in wiring, and design principles, us Making of freesias and assembling of stamens

Lesson 4

• Use of inverted wine classes as pillars
• Preparation of royal icing and using it to create cornelli lace and scrolls on the cake
• Making of a quick sugar paste for the tiered wedding cake
• Creating a marbled\tinted sugar paste for cake
• Use of commercially available sugar paste and learn the pros and cons
• Techniques in covering a real cakeTechniques in making, shaping and thinning realistic petals for making roses

Tips for transporting
And costing: how much to sell the cake for?

Additional cost of 7  inch  fruit cake: $25
The school will have a variety of  cake pillars available for practice. Students may wish to bring their own pillars ir they wish.

A Certificate of Accomplishment will be awarded to those who complete the course successfully.