Cupcakes for Beginners - Retford Library - Adult Learning

Retford Library, Retford

Date	12 September - 3 October 2025
Sessions	Fridays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	4
Venue	Retford Library, Retford View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £32

About this course

This course is a beginner guide to cupcake decorating. You will learn skills and techniques using fondant icing to produce a selection of themed cupcake toppers.

A great course for learning how to make sugar fondant cake toppers for cupcakes and to be introduced to basic piping techniques to create your own designs.

During the course, we will cover the essential equipment needed to decorate cupcakes, how to bake them and choose the best cases, how to use cake decorating tools, experiment with a variety of cutters and plungers, design your own unique cake toppers, and explore effective ways to package and cost cupcakes for sale.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Please bring a packet of white fondant icing, a small nonstick board, and a rolling pin to the first session.

For week 2 – a packet of readymade fairy cakes and buttercream will be needed.

Cutters, plungers, and piping nozzles will be available to use.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.