Sugarcraft - Piping Techniques-Mansfield Woodhouse Library-Adult Learning

About this course

This course is a beginner guide to decorating cakes and cupcakes. 

You will learn skills and techniques using buttercream to pipe a variety of different shapes to add depth and texture to cake and cupcakes.   

By attending this course, you will learn the technique for a ruffled swirl, the classic shell, and other useful techniques to create beautiful decorations to enhance cakes and cupcakes.  We will cover: 

• How to colour buttercream and create depth 

• How to pipe a ruffled swirl  

• How to create a classic shell  

Resources required by attendees

• Cupcakes  
• Buttercream  
• Small palette knife  
• Spoon  
• Piping bags  
• Scissors  
• Colours of personal choice  
• Nozzles: 
• 1 M – Rose  
• 2D- rosette 
• 22 small star domes  
• 4B lots of teeth cut out- medium size start shape domes 
• 1 E-Rosette  
• 124 petal tip- Wave   
• Please note you do not have to bring all these nozzles in, you can bring any you have to experiment creatively.  
• Note pad and pen  

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of 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 webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/ 

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• 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

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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