Piping Techniques & Vintage Cakes

This course teaches all the skills needed to decorate cakes and cupcakes using piping bags and specialty nozzles. Suitable for beginners

Entry Requirements

No prior experience required
Course Content
You will learn how to:
- Prepare perfect pipeable consistency of royal icing and buttercream
- Choose and use the correct nozzles
- Master the grip and control hand pressure
- Pipe dots, lines ,leaves classic shell and rosette borders, dropped loops, flowers and ruffles
- Scrolls and Lambeth method Vintage styles
- Write a message Takeaway a decorated cake and cake dummy and a box of cupcakes or practised icing boards
Progression Next Steps

Progression on to the Cake Decorating - Modern Techniques or other short cake decorating courses
Course Structure

The teacher will contact you with what ingredients to bring to class before the first session.
Assessment Details

Your tutor will give you regular feedback during lessons and there will be opportunities to share ideas with the class. You'll also have individual targets set, to ensure you are challenged to work at an appropriate level for you.

Entry Requirements