Cake Decorating Courses

We offer three levels of Cake Decorating courses to choose from depending on what skill level you are at

I recommend starting with Level 1, so you don’t miss out on the basic skills, techniques and tips and tricks for the selected course criteria you have chosen. Most of these courses will build on the skill learnt from the level before.

There are many mediums to use in cake decorating: Buttercream, Fresh cream, Dream Whip, Imitation cream, Ganache, Fondant and Royal Icing just to name a few. We will aim to cover each one in detail but starting with buttercream as it is a common icing medium and can be the most stable icing for beginners.

In cake decorating, the techniques you use can be applied to most other icing mediums, for example, piping a rosette requires the same technique in all the creams, icings and frostings. (Besides fondant/sugar paste icing). The only differences would be the size piping nozzle or the pressure applied.

One of the most important skill is to learn in cake decorating is knowing how to use a piping bag.

I have created a cake decorating piping technique guide to offer a direct lesson in learning the skill of piping.

Beginner’s Guide to

Cake Decorating Piping Techniques

Want to work on your piping skills, or fine-tune your cake decorating skills?

What you will learn in the Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating Piping Techniques:

• Fundamentals of cake decorating
• Bag position and angles
• Pressure control Getting the bag ready
• Filling the bag
• Holding the bag
• The piping techniques that will be covered Lines, Stars, Zig-zags, Rosettes

The bonuses are templates for the piping techniques to help you hone in on the new skills, to help gain muscle memory and confidence for your next cake to decorate. There is also a cupcake template that you can practice creating amazing looking cupcakes for your next event.

Grab your copy of the Piping Techniques Guide here

Beginner’s Cake Decorating – Level 1

There are many mediums to use in cake decorating: Buttercream, Fresh cream, Dream Whip, Imitation cream, Ganache, Fondant and Royal Icing just to name a few. We will aim to cover each one in detail but starting with buttercream as it is a common icing medium and can be the most stable icing for beginners.

Cake Decorating Basics – Level 1

Available now

There are 7 Lessons and an Introductory lesson to help you know where to get started

What you will learn in Cake Decorating Basics

• Measuring by weight
• Buttercreams
• How to make buttercream icing and to colour the icing.
• Basic Cupcake Decorating.
• Basic buttercream flowers
• Drawing and writing on the cake.
• How to prepare a cake ready for decorating.
• Covering a cake with buttercream and applying various techniques to the sides of the cake such as Smooth sides, Combed sides, Rough look, and Piped decorations on the sides.
• Video tutorials to decorate piped decorations on cupcakes and various cake covering techniques and more!

Learn more about Cake Decorating Basics here

Fondant Icing – Level 1

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Royal Icing – Level 1

Coming Soon

Ganache Icing – Level 1

Coming Soon

Intermediate Cake Decorating – Level 2

Advanced Cake Decorating – Level 3

Short cake decorating courses

Let us know by email or comment below if you have a specific cake trend or technique you would like me to test out and show you how it can be done, I am more than happy to check it out!

We will be creating some short courses and these are just a few ideas:

Cupcakes, Choc sails, stripped cakes, drip cakes, faultline cake, cracked gold, leopard print, geodes, isomalt, rice paper sails, pinata, piped sides, carving designed, acetate side designs, choc borders, numbers/letter cakes or cookies, unicorn cakes, Mermaid cakes, Gravity-defying cakes, Naked cakes, Russian pointed tips, Russians flower tips, Russian ball tips.

Interested in making cake or pastry or bread? Check out the other courses we offer on our Bakeducation page