Sugar Craft Peonies - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Central Library, West Gate

Date	22 June - 13 July 2026
Sessions	Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	4
Venue	Mansfield Central Library, West Gate View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £32

About this course

This course is an intermediate guide to learn how to produce a sugar craft peony.

You will learn skills and techniques to produce a realistic peony flower to enhance any special occasion cake with step-by-step instructions.

We will explore the stages of making the centre stamens, learn skills and techniques to cut out and vein the petals and add colour and shade. You will learn how to assemble the stamen and petals to create a beautiful peony to enjoy with friends and family.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• How to produce the centre stamens for the peony.

• How to produce the petals for the peony.

• How to assemble the flower and add colour to the completed peony.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Squires sugar paste - white

3 different sizes of peony cutters

Peony veiner

Small sponge

20 Stamens per flower small with slightly larger ends (Petal dust- Primrose yellow and buttermilk mixed)

Rolling pin

Board

Ball tool

Cell pad

Edible glue

24-gauge wire

Craft knife

Wire cutters

Petal dust- pink, yellow, green or colours of choice

Florist tape green

Spoons for drying the petals

Plastic container to store petals so the paste doesn’t dry out

Scissors

Apron

Something to carry home in

Note pad and pen.

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