The West Sussex Cupcake Company - Classes,Coaching and Community
The West Sussex Cupcake Company
Courses overview
**Member-only courses available starting in October 2012**
WHY NOT START WITH the FREE TASTER COURSE FOR FACEBOOK FANS:
Course Overview: 0. The West Sussex Cupcake Company - free intro - An introduction to Cupcake Decorating - sign up here
Free Course Contents:
1. An overview of the basics of making cupcakes - mini, standard and giant. How to head off disasters, avoid hiccups and give your decoration a good start.
2. An introduction to various techniques available, including making decorations from sugar paste and flower paste. Stencilling, Embossing and Layering fondant.
3. The world of icing - buttercream, ganache, fondant, royal icing, flower paste, modelling paste. Ready icings and homemade.
4. Making sugar flowers - a taster: wired vs non wired, using colour, using dusts, correctly using metallic dusts and glitter to meet recognised health and safety standards.
5. An introduction to packaging: cupcake cases and boxes, inserts, plastic vs cardboard and recyclable materials including accessing non-artificial ribbon. Wrappers. Giant and mini and many in between.
All courses will include reference to health and safety and the utmost important of good hygiene in baking.
COURSE 1. Getting the best Cupcake Basics - mini, standard and giant.An overview of cases, bake-in vs decorative only cases as well as using pre-cut and custom made wrappers. Some tips on how to head off disasters, avoid hiccups and give your decoration a good start. You will learn how to set up sleek and perfectly finished foundations in buttercream with a palette knife and different icing nozzles ready to add decorations. And how to get the basic fondant icing smooth and bubble free for a neat, flat topped cupcake. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable, including bonus of some basic decoration techniques for a finished, professional looking set of 12 standard sized two-tone cupcakes.
COURSE 2. Ice ice baby - a start to finish basics of icings; including buttercream, fondant, royal icing, flower paste, modelling paste. Ready icings and homemade. Looking at using different techniques for colouring: liquid vs paste colours, and how to successfully use colour dusts. How to rescue icing that has become too dry and make it more flexible if cracking. And what you can use to ensure nothing sticks. Then learn how to get fondant ready for a smooth even cake covering and how it can be easily embossed to give a real wow-factor. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 3. Piped Flowers - add an impressive new technique into your cake decorating. A start to finish step-by-step making piped and paintbrush pulled royal icing flowers. Why you don't need to be afraid of royal icing. The importance of health and safety. What you can do with single vs two-tone colours. How to transfer your design, how to decide where to start and using the correct nozzles. Discussion on ready icings and how to make a great homemade royal icing. Achieving different looks using different stencils. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 4. We might be Giants - a start to finish step-by-step making the perfect giant cupcake. Includes how to make a chocolate shell base in different colours. Achieving different looks using different icing techniques such as piped rosettes, continuous swirl or stars. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking giant cupcake, ready to decorate for any occasion.
COURSE 5. Decorate Miss Daisy - step-by-step making a variety of delicate flowers. How to make your design and colours effective, how to make hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed daisy designs. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 flowery contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 6. Two-by-two - step-by-step making a variety of animals. How to make your designs and colours effective for children as well as adults, how to make hand modelled as well as cut out designs. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 coordinated animal contemporary cupcakes. (monkey elephant and tiger, with a little bonus snake idea for free!)
COURSE 7: Coming up Roses - step-by-step making a variety of roses. How to make your design and colours effective and making good use of dusts and paste and liquid colours. How to make hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed rose designs, including highly effective and simple rolled mini roses. Plus using the 5-petal technique for free formed individual petals and roses in different sizes. Suitable for all sizes of cupcakes. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 classic vintage rose themed cupcakes.
COURSES 8 and 9: WEDDING CUPCAKES - **two courses: step-by-step how to go about making wedding cupcakes. Have you promised a friend you would do her wedding? Or maybe you'd like to get together with your bridesmaids and make your own? Take the stress out of wedding cupcakes by planning and practicing in advance with these ten step by step videos and a handy tips printable. Plan how the cupcakes can add to the wow-factor of the day, tie in with the bridal designs and wedding style and ensure they look and taste amazing adding to the bride and groom's memories from the Big Day for all the right reasons. Includes how to make your design and colours effective and making correct use of colours. How to make a variety of hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed designs; both floral and contemporary designs. In this example you will learn how to make simple and highly effective mini roses, birds, hearts and butterflies. Suitable for all sizes of cupcakes. You will also get tips and ideas on presentation and all important considerations of set up, safety and what you musn't forget. Includes ten step-by-step videos and printables for a finished, professional looking set of 100 classical wedding cupcakes and a giant cupcake. **you should book and pay for each course separately.
COURSE 10: A Wonderful Wonky cake
- step-by-step how to go about making and stacking a wonky cake. Have you always wanted to know how to make a carved cake? Here's an advanced course which makes carving and stacking cakes simple. Using 5 step by step videos and a handy tips printable you will learn how to Design and Plan the most amazingly fun shaped cake! Use the correct type of cake which will be effective for carving. How to measure and carve the cake correctly for optimum effect, and how to get the right supports in place. Includes how to make your design and colours effective on each tier. In this example you will learn how to decorate it as a Hallowe'en cake. You will also get tips and ideas on presentation and all important considerations of set up, safety and what you musn't forget before eating the cake! Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a stacked and finished, professional looking three tiered wonky and carved cake.
Can't see what you'd like to learn? Message me and perhaps we can do a course just for you.
WHY NOT START WITH the FREE TASTER COURSE FOR FACEBOOK FANS:
Course Overview: 0. The West Sussex Cupcake Company - free intro - An introduction to Cupcake Decorating - sign up here
Free Course Contents:
1. An overview of the basics of making cupcakes - mini, standard and giant. How to head off disasters, avoid hiccups and give your decoration a good start.
2. An introduction to various techniques available, including making decorations from sugar paste and flower paste. Stencilling, Embossing and Layering fondant.
3. The world of icing - buttercream, ganache, fondant, royal icing, flower paste, modelling paste. Ready icings and homemade.
4. Making sugar flowers - a taster: wired vs non wired, using colour, using dusts, correctly using metallic dusts and glitter to meet recognised health and safety standards.
5. An introduction to packaging: cupcake cases and boxes, inserts, plastic vs cardboard and recyclable materials including accessing non-artificial ribbon. Wrappers. Giant and mini and many in between.
All courses will include reference to health and safety and the utmost important of good hygiene in baking.
COURSE 1. Getting the best Cupcake Basics - mini, standard and giant.An overview of cases, bake-in vs decorative only cases as well as using pre-cut and custom made wrappers. Some tips on how to head off disasters, avoid hiccups and give your decoration a good start. You will learn how to set up sleek and perfectly finished foundations in buttercream with a palette knife and different icing nozzles ready to add decorations. And how to get the basic fondant icing smooth and bubble free for a neat, flat topped cupcake. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable, including bonus of some basic decoration techniques for a finished, professional looking set of 12 standard sized two-tone cupcakes.
COURSE 2. Ice ice baby - a start to finish basics of icings; including buttercream, fondant, royal icing, flower paste, modelling paste. Ready icings and homemade. Looking at using different techniques for colouring: liquid vs paste colours, and how to successfully use colour dusts. How to rescue icing that has become too dry and make it more flexible if cracking. And what you can use to ensure nothing sticks. Then learn how to get fondant ready for a smooth even cake covering and how it can be easily embossed to give a real wow-factor. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 3. Piped Flowers - add an impressive new technique into your cake decorating. A start to finish step-by-step making piped and paintbrush pulled royal icing flowers. Why you don't need to be afraid of royal icing. The importance of health and safety. What you can do with single vs two-tone colours. How to transfer your design, how to decide where to start and using the correct nozzles. Discussion on ready icings and how to make a great homemade royal icing. Achieving different looks using different stencils. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 4. We might be Giants - a start to finish step-by-step making the perfect giant cupcake. Includes how to make a chocolate shell base in different colours. Achieving different looks using different icing techniques such as piped rosettes, continuous swirl or stars. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking giant cupcake, ready to decorate for any occasion.
COURSE 5. Decorate Miss Daisy - step-by-step making a variety of delicate flowers. How to make your design and colours effective, how to make hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed daisy designs. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 flowery contemporary cupcakes.
COURSE 6. Two-by-two - step-by-step making a variety of animals. How to make your designs and colours effective for children as well as adults, how to make hand modelled as well as cut out designs. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 coordinated animal contemporary cupcakes. (monkey elephant and tiger, with a little bonus snake idea for free!)
COURSE 7: Coming up Roses - step-by-step making a variety of roses. How to make your design and colours effective and making good use of dusts and paste and liquid colours. How to make hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed rose designs, including highly effective and simple rolled mini roses. Plus using the 5-petal technique for free formed individual petals and roses in different sizes. Suitable for all sizes of cupcakes. Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a finished, professional looking set of 12 classic vintage rose themed cupcakes.
COURSES 8 and 9: WEDDING CUPCAKES - **two courses: step-by-step how to go about making wedding cupcakes. Have you promised a friend you would do her wedding? Or maybe you'd like to get together with your bridesmaids and make your own? Take the stress out of wedding cupcakes by planning and practicing in advance with these ten step by step videos and a handy tips printable. Plan how the cupcakes can add to the wow-factor of the day, tie in with the bridal designs and wedding style and ensure they look and taste amazing adding to the bride and groom's memories from the Big Day for all the right reasons. Includes how to make your design and colours effective and making correct use of colours. How to make a variety of hand modelled as well as moulded, stencilled and embossed designs; both floral and contemporary designs. In this example you will learn how to make simple and highly effective mini roses, birds, hearts and butterflies. Suitable for all sizes of cupcakes. You will also get tips and ideas on presentation and all important considerations of set up, safety and what you musn't forget. Includes ten step-by-step videos and printables for a finished, professional looking set of 100 classical wedding cupcakes and a giant cupcake. **you should book and pay for each course separately.
COURSE 10: A Wonderful Wonky cake
- step-by-step how to go about making and stacking a wonky cake. Have you always wanted to know how to make a carved cake? Here's an advanced course which makes carving and stacking cakes simple. Using 5 step by step videos and a handy tips printable you will learn how to Design and Plan the most amazingly fun shaped cake! Use the correct type of cake which will be effective for carving. How to measure and carve the cake correctly for optimum effect, and how to get the right supports in place. Includes how to make your design and colours effective on each tier. In this example you will learn how to decorate it as a Hallowe'en cake. You will also get tips and ideas on presentation and all important considerations of set up, safety and what you musn't forget before eating the cake! Includes five step-by-step videos and printable for a stacked and finished, professional looking three tiered wonky and carved cake.
Can't see what you'd like to learn? Message me and perhaps we can do a course just for you.
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