Cupcakes for Beginners - Hucknall Library - Adult Learning

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.

By the end of the course your will be able to:

• Produce cake toppers using fondant

• Make and pipe butter cream using different piping nozzles

• Design a box of decorated cupcakes for friends or to sell

This is a great course for beginners who want to develop their skills or a hobby baker looking for new ideas.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

•    Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
•    Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• Greater London Authority
•    North East Combined Authority
•    South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
•    Tees Valley Combined Authority
•    West Midlands Combined Authority
•    West of England Combined Authority
•    West Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
•    York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Hull and East Yorkshire
•    Greater Lincolnshire
•    Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
•    Cornwall Council
•    Lancashire Combined County Authority
•    Buckinghamshire

• Warwickshire

• Surrey

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.