Course overview
This hands-on Cake Decorating - Flower Making (Advanced) course covers how to make sugarpaste and wafer paper flowers for celebration cakes. You’ll practice cutting, shaping, and colouring flowers, buds, leaves, and filler florals. The course also covers wiring techniques and how to tape flowers together to create beautiful floral sprays suitable for cake decoration.
Course description
There is no baking component to this course, only decoration.
During the course, you will cover:
- Cutting, shaping, veining and colouring flowers and leaves
- Assembling full roses
- Making and colouring wired filler flowers, buds and leaves
- Using floral tape to assemble flowers into stems and bunches
- Cutting and colouring wafer paper to make wired petals, leaves and feathers to create a floral spray
- Designing and making large, colourful tropical flowers
- Incorporating wired stamens in designs
- Crafting petals for large flowers and filler flowers
- Designing, making and assembling a floral spray for use on a wedding cake.
You should bring a small roller, fondant modelling tools, flower cutters, flower foam pad, petal dusts, edible glue, floral wire, floral tape, and sugarpaste for flower making.
You will also require a cake ready for decoration on week 1 and week 8.
Entry requirements
You should have prior experience in cake baking and preparation including levelling, filling, crumb coating and covering a cake in fondant. Some basic cake decorating experience is recommended.
Course options
Course Type: Evening
Details
Venue details
Cardonald Campus
690 Mosspark Drive
Glasgow
Course provider
Glasgow Clyde College
Cardonald Campus
690 Mosspark Drive
Glasgow