Easter Cupcake Toppers - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield Woodhouse

Date	24 February - 24 March 2026
Sessions	Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield Woodhouse View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

This course is a beginner’s guide to decorating cupcakes with a selection of easter themed decorations. You will learn skills and techniques using some cutters and some free style modeling, including a rabbit down a hole showing feet and tail with carrots, and a sheep head topper. You will also learn how to make daffodils, calla lilies, and a fondant easter egg. No previous experience is required.

You will learn about how you can use these techniques creatively, by looking at and discussing various books and websites who influences 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 beautiful selection of Easter cupcake toppers to share with family and friends over the Easter holidays. The cupcakes can be created to celebrate any Easter Celebration or Spring occasion. Skills and techniques can be applied to larger cakes.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Cupcakes, buttercream piping nozzle of choice and bag (optional)

Fondant Icing or modelling paste.

Sugar florist paste.

Colours white, pink, orange, yellow, black, green any colours for the fondant egg

Board

Rolling pin

Corn flour

Ball tool

Dresden tool

Cell pad

Drying foam

Edible glue

Cocktail stick

Heart cutter

Sugar and yellow edible dust

Daffodil cutter

Small piping nozzle

Marshmallows

Note pad and pen.

Apron and suitable container to carry home in.

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