1. food and drink
2. desserts and baking

Course Outline
Course dates
Course title
Name and
address of
teaching centre
As below
Day in the
week
Wednesday
Cake Decorating - Sugarpaste
Time of
sessions
16:00 - 18:00
3G’s Development Trust
15 Chestnut Way,
Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9SB
Teaching
centre
telephone no.
01685 350888
Tutor’s name
Martyn Watkins
WEA contact
number
01495 369 869
Website - www.cakesbymartyn.com
Facebook - Cakes by Martyn
Course outline
Date
Theme/Topic
What you’ll need to bring
Introduction to Cake Decorating and the
course
A pen
1 hr
13-May Working with sugarpaste and starting your
1 kg sugarpaste, a 10” round cake board
and your tools. 1 metre of 15mm dark green
ribbon and a ‘pritt’ stick.
A plastic food bag
2
hrs
20-May Covering a cake dummy with sugarpaste
The finished cake board we covered in week
two and the rest of your sugarpaste, a 6”
round cake dummy and your usual tools.
2
hrs
6-May
first project - Teddy Bears’s Picnic
and some simple borders
3-Jun
Making simple models to complete the
project
Your covered board and dummy & some
sugarpaste or marzipan to make simple
models.
2
hrs
10-Jun
Problems with sugarpaste and how to correct Your finished Teddy Bears’ Picnic ‘cake’ them. Correct storage of products.
we’ll need to take photos of your finished
project.
Making letters to create a message on a cake
2
hrs
17-Jun
Covering a cake with buttercream and
sugarpaste.
An 8” round madeira cake, 1 kg sugarpaste,
buttercream, a cake board and cake carrier
plus your usual tools.
2
hrs
Start the second project - cover a cake
dummy with sugarpaste and create a good
finish
Cake dummy, board and 1 kg sugarpaste
plus your usual tools
2
hrs
Making models to decorate your second
project.
Your covered board and dummy & some
sugarpaste or marzipan to make models to
decorate the ‘cake’.
2
hrs
Crimping and embossing.
24-Jun
1-Jul
Cake Decorating with Sugarpaste - NE21CY017 - Level 1
26 May 2015
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