Novelty Cake course 2 – 32 hours
This course follows on from the beginner’s course (either novelty or wedding cake course) and is suitable for people with a basic understanding of fondant and piping work.
• Basics of cake design and drawing your cakes and designing a cake to a customer’s specifications.
• Flooding and drop-in flooding, pressure piping
• Writing with royal icing, cross-stitch piping and layered piping
• Use of stencils and how to use the airbrushing
• Use of texturing and embossing
• Draping, bows, applique
• Working with mini cakes
• Mirror glaze
• Quilting effect and crimping
• Advanced chocolate work
• Pastillage and painting cakes
• Working with wafer paper and isomalt
• Business and food safety
• Basics of building structures for support in large and unusual shaped cakes
• Topsy-turvy cake construction
• Extreme elements
• A project of your choice
Syllabus
Class 1
Day 1
Practical: Cookies
Flooding and drop-in flooding
Pressure piping
Writing with royal icing
Cross-stitch piping
Piping a tiara or basket or swan
Layered piping
Mini cakes
Covering mini-cakes (round)
Marbling
Mirror glaze
Quilted effect
Crimping
Collars on mini cakes including squiggly collars
Porcupine quills and feathers
Theory: Design
Basics of cake design
Drawing your cakes
Cake design to a client’s specifications
Day 2
Practical: Ballerina cake
Textured effects using rolling pins, texture mats
Embossing
Making Petal Paste Decorations
Draping
Bows (two types)
Painting
Pastillage and 2D applique effects
Frills
Inlays
Day 3
Practical: Mermaid cake
Learn to use stencils
Working with butter icing
Working with wafer paper
Isomalt and chocolate sails
Theory: Business and food safety
Day 4
Practical: Apple for the teacher cake (presented by Kerry-Anne Molema)
Airbrushing (operation and care)
Shaping cake and building stable structures
Chalkboard effect
Day 5
Practical: Topsy-turvy cake construction project of your choice
Theory: Building stable structures and use of suitable material, cakes and fillings
Cutting shaped cakes out of round and square shapes
Extreme elements
Cake
spacers and supports