This class can be arranged to suit just about any time requirements you may have by choosing which skills you would like to learn. If you want to make this whole cake from start to finish, it will take two days. On the first day we will make the bow loops, flowers and plaque. On the second day we will pipe the monogram on the plaque, color the flowers, arrange the bow and do the fondant draping. Students will have the option to complete the class with a finished display piece or to make the pieces but only use one dummy to practice the draping techniques.
The cost of this class done over two days will be $175.00.
The following list looks long and in fact, it is - much of it you will already have or would expect to need if you were making the cake pictured.
If you don`t have every tool on the list - contact me to see what might be substituted.
The point of the class is to teach you a technique not deplete your bank account. Several items can be shared between a couple of people or in the case of lustre dusts - several people. One bucket of purchased fondant can supply three or four people if you are willing to mix it with your own homemade fondant. Alot of the time in cake decorating it comes down to making it work with what you already have on hand so don`t hesitate to ask what you can substitute.
Students will bring: 1- 6" round dummy covered with fondant, 1 - 10" round dummy covered with fondant, 1- 14" round dummy covered with fondant, 1 - 22" board covered with fondant, (if you just want to learn the technique you can bring the plain dummies without covering them), 5 pounds of commercially prepared fondant (something like Fondex or Satin Ice), pearl dust, brush to apply dust, water pen or paint brush and cup for water, cloth or tape covered 24 gauge wire in moss green (enough wire to make approximately 75 flowers), drying frame for flowers
(contact me for specifics on this), drying frame for bow loops
(contact me for specifics on this), gros grain rolling pin, 100 pieces of 24 gauge white cloth covered wire cut to 3" in length and bent into a horseshoe shape, plaque cutter in desired shape no taller than 3 1/2" to 4", 1/2 pound of gum paste left white and 1/2 pound of gum paste colored a very pale moss green, hydrangea cutter and veiner set, Jem strip cutter with 2 strips on the cutter, tracing wheel, PME cutting wheel, needle tool, texture mats for the "fabric", FMM endless cutter if you have them, package of bamboo skewers, ruler, airtight container of royal icing which has been strained through a nylon sock, piping bag, tip #`s 1,2 and 5, bag holder with moist sponge or towel, pencil, small container of shortening, cornstarch in a puff, powdered sugar in a puff, rolling pins (one for gum paste and one for fondant) and surface, petal or lustre dusts for your hydrangeas in colors desired and brushes to apply, pizza cutter that makes a good cut, premade fondant or gum paste pearls in sufficient quantities to go around each tier.