Cake Decorating

Using sugar as an artistic medium, so much has evolved in the crafts of cake decorating. From popular fondant cakes, gum paste flowers, icing and stringworks, to more recent topics like wafer paper sculpting, Korean buttercream, bean paste piping and sculpting, we seek to stay current by inviting renowned instructors to share their experience in hands-on classes, so you can bring home pretty art pieces, as well as highly precise techniques.

Pre-baked real or faux cake will be used as stated in class descriptions. Hands-on baking will not be taught in cake decorating classes. Please refer to classes in Basic Baking Skills for hands-on learning.

Class listing updated on November 13, 2024

 

Landscape Cake: Ellirey Island

$365 or 13 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 4.5 - 5 hours
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 3 - 4

Private class available for booking from 3 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

Landscaping cake, also known as a "terrain cake," is a decorative cake trend that involves creating intricate, miniature scenes or landscapes on the surface of a cake. These cakes often depict natural settings like forests, mountains, gardens, or ponds, using edible materials for realistic detail. This style combines cake decorating with the art of diorama-making, transforming cakes into charming edible worlds with depth and dimension.

  • Workshop provides pre-baked sponges and cream fillings with recipes

  • Learn to build the foundation for the landscape cake

  • Techniques in shaping and icing the foundation to depict nature

  • Learn to create realistic waves and grass patterns, and build a small fondant house

  • Colouring methods and the choice of suitable food colourings

 
 

Semi-Naked Cake with Fruits

$169 or 6 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 2.5 - 3 hours
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 4 - 12

Private class available for booking from 4 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides a 6” round sponge cake and pre-made buttercream

  • Learn how to cut cake layers with a baked cake

  • Learn how to fill the cake layers with buttercream and jam or fruits when you have them on hand

  • Learn the technique of semi-masking otherwise known as crumb coating 

  • How to touch up the crumb coats to look like a semi-naked cake

  • Learn how to do chocolate dripping using compound white chocolate

  • Tips and tricks on how to decorate the cake with fresh berries

 
 

Basic Buttercream Masking and Piping

$219 or 8 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 3 - 3.5 hours
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 4 - 8

Prerequisite: This workshop expects you to know how to fill and crumb coat a cake therefore it won’t be taught during the class

Private class available for booking from 4 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides a 5” (5”H) faux/dummy cake on a cake board

  • Learn how to colour buttercream properly using oil based colour paste and get dark colours

  • Learn how to mask the cake, including the techniques on how to mask with an accent colour or doing an ombre effect

  • Learn the techniques in using couplers and bigger piping tips

  • Use different tips to pipe different flowers in order to form little flower bunches and leaves

 
 

Tiered Buttercream Cake and Advanced Piping

$445 or 16 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 4 hours
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 6

Private class available for booking from 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides a 6” (4”H) real cake and a 4” (5”H) faux/dummy cake on a cake board

  • Step by step demonstration on how to properly prep a tier before stacking

  • Demonstration and hands on experience on how to stack a cake tier onto another

  • Learn how to do a textured buttercream finish

  • Learn the piping techniques for borders and ruffles using different piping tips

  • Practice piping different boarders and ruffles onto a flat surface

  • Finish the cake by executing vintage piping and textured buttercream

 
 

Basic Fondanting and Textured Decorations

$445 or 16 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 4 - 4.5 hours
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 6

Private class available for booking from 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides a 6” (4”H) real cake already filled and roughly masked

  • Learn how to prep a cake before fondant application

  • Learn the basics of how to handle fondant

  • Demonstration on how to cover a prepped cake with fondant and instruction on 90° edge shaping

  • Hands on practice on covering the cake with fondant

  • Introduction of different decoration materials, i.e. gum paste, wafer paper, glutinous rice paper, etc. 

  • Learn how to make gum paste appliqués with molds, textured wafer paper and rice paper bunches

  • Texture play and assembling all the prepped decoration onto the cake

 
 

Cartoon Series:
2-Day Advanced Winnie-the-Pooh Tree Stump Cake

$665 or 24 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 6 hours + 30 mins break each day (lunch not included)
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 3

Private class available for booking from 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides a 5” real cake already filled and roughly masked

  • Learn to cover a cake using fondant and make it look like a tree stump (annual rings and bark texture)

  • Learn how to dust and colour the tree stump to give it more depth

  • Learn how to make Winnie the Pooh and Piglet figurines

  • Learn how to make other decorations such as bees, wood grained doors and organic grass textures

 
 

Advanced Fondanting and Wafer Paper Sculpture

$720 or 26 prepaid points /person
All materials included

Duration: 5 hours (lunch not included)
Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 6

Private class available for booking from 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Workshop provides 5” (7”H) square faux/dummy cake

  • Learn the different ways in creating textured fondant

  • Learn how to slab and wrap a tall tier cake and achieve sharp edges on a square cake

  • Demonstration on how to make dramatic wafer paper sails/structures

  • Instructions on how to assemble the wafer paper sails to create an abstract sculpture

 
 

Korean Bean Paste Flower Piping Professional Course (Level 1A)

$499 or 18 prepaid points /person ($915 or 33 prepaid points total if you take both Level 1A & Level 1B)
All materials included

Korean Bean Paste Flower Piping Professional Course (Level 1B)

$499 or 18 prepaid points /person ($915 or 33 prepaid points total if you take both Level 1A & Level 1B)
All materials included

Duration: 6 hours + 30 mins break each day (lunch not included)

Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 3

Private class available for booking of 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Students will make flowers on one 5” faux/dummy cake and one short tier Flower Bouquet

  • Step-by-step instruction on learning how to properly pipe bean paste flowers, including:
    - Ruffle Rose (Level 1A)
    - Anemone (Level 1A)
    - Camellia (Level 1A)
    - Hydrangea (Level 1A)
    - Daisy (Level 1A)
    - Blueberries & Raspberries (Level 1A)

    - Old English Rose (Level 1B)
    - Carnation (Level 1B)
    - Classic Peony (Level 1B)
    - Cosmos (Level 1B)
    - Freesia (Level 1B)
    - Buds & Bouvardia (Level 1B)

  • Learn how to colour bean paste and create various effects such as ombré & colour edges

  • Demonstration on how to mask the cake using bean paste

  • Learn how to create a cohesive looks with bean paste flower designs, and to assemble piped flowers onto a masked cake

 
 

Korean Bean Paste Flower Piping Professional Course (Level 2A)

$550 or 20 prepaid points /person ($970 or 35 prepaid points total if you take both Level 2A & Level 2B)
All materials included

Korean Bean Paste Flower Piping Professional Course (Level 2B)

$550 or 20 prepaid points /person ($970 or 35 prepaid points total if you take both Level 2A & Level 2B)
All materials included

Duration: 6 hours + 30 mins break each day (lunch not included)

Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 1 - 2

Prerequisite: We recommend you to have prior knowledge (Level 1A & Level 1B) with Bean Paste Flower Piping.

Private class available for booking of 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Students will make flowers on a 2-tier cake consisting of 1 faux tier (dummy) and 1 tier of pre-filled sponge cake

  • Step-by-step instruction on learning how to properly pipe more advanced bean paste flowers, including:
    - Ranunculus (Level 2A)
    - David Austin Rose (Level 2A)
    - Dahlia (Level 2A)
    - Small Rose (Level 2A)
    - Didiscus (Level 2A)
    - Strawberry, 3D leaves (Level 2A)

    - Bloomy Peony (Level 2B)
    - Charity Rose (Level 2B)
    - Scabiosa (Level 2B)
    - Half-opened Peony (Level 2B)
    - Wafer Paper Leaves (Level 2B)

  • Learn how to colour bean paste and create various effects such as ombré & colour edges

  • Demonstration on how to mask the cake using bean paste

  • Learn how to create a cohesive looks with bean paste flower designs, and to assemble piped flowers onto a masked cake

 
 

4-Day Gum Paste Flower Bouquet Professional Course

$1880/person
All materials included

Duration: 6 hours + 30 mins break each day (lunch not included), can be scheduled on 4 consecutive days or 1 day per week

Format: In person, Hands-on
# of Students: 2 - 3

Private class available for booking from 2 people. Please send us an email with your group’s preferred dates and time, we will try to accommodate.

  • Step-by-step instruction on learning how to create gum paste sugar flowers, including:
    - Open Round Peony
    - Roses
    - Rustic Open Ranunculus
    - Daisies
    - Carnations
    - Hydrangeas
    - Berries & Leaves

  • Learn to make stamens for peony, bud for roses, ranunculus and daisies

  • Learn to use floral wires for gum paste and make individual petals and leaves

  • Learn to assemble petals into a flower and tie all petals using floral tapes

  • Learn to dust floral petals and assembled flowers, and how to mix the dust to create the best colouring effect

  • Learn to demonstrate the use of steamer and how to seal the dusted colours on leaves and berries

  • Learn to assemble all dusted sugar flowers and create a natural looking floral arrangement

  • Step-by-step instruction on design details

 

Class fee is per person per set of materials, subject to HST.

HANDS-ON CAKE DECORATING CLASS INCLUDES:

  • Pre-baked real or faux cake as stated in class descriptions. Hands-on baking will not be taught in cake decorating classes.

  • All materials needed – the tools and ingredients we use in class are of top quality

  • An apron to use during class (you are welcome to bring your own)

  • Container for you to take away your finished product

  • Certificate of Completion (by request)