Christmas Cupcake Toppers - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

This course is a beginner’s guide to decorating Christmas cupcakes through creating toppers. During the course we will be focusing on using a range of techniques and skills including how to use modelling paste to create a cupcake snowman, polar bear, Christmas elf, Christmas pudding, and Christmas wreath to enhance any Christmas celebration cupcake. You will follow demonstrations by the tutor for each design.

You will then select some of these techniques to develop your own skills and knowledge. No previous experience is required, as this is a beginner’s course. You will learn about how you can use these techniques creatively, by looking at and discussing various books and websites who influence and motivates.

By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in a range of creative techniques, you will produce a selection of Christmas cupcake toppers to your own specification to share with friends and family over the Christmas holidays. You will gain skills and knowledge to progress onto further learning through progression courses or consider career opportunities.

Please bring with you to the course:-

• Cupcakes, buttercream, piping nozzle of choice and piping bag (Optional)

• Circle cutter to cover a cupcake.

• Ready to roll icing and sugar florist paste or modelling paste.

• Board

• Rolling Pin

• Corn flour for dusting

• Edible glue

• Paintbrushes for glue and dusting

• PME Foam cell pad

• Modelling tools: dresden tool, ball tool.

• Craft knife.

• Gel colours and petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Blue, green, red, brown, yellow, pink, peach, orange, flesh colour for the face, black.

• Cocktail sticks.

• Scissors

• Note pad and pen.