ABC Cake Decoration Part Time Evening

Cake Decorating

Sugar paste Techniques for Cake Decoration

This means a cake of any shape, with 2 tiers, without pillars but including dowel support. You are going to design the decoration yourself.

• Fabric effects

• Bas relief

• Modelling

• Unwired simple strengthened sugar paste flowers

Handling Chocolate and Producing Chocolate

Goods and Preparations

You are going to demonstrate your skills working with chocolate to produce a selection of a minimum of 6 different chocolates and a simple centre piece.

Temper chocolate maintaining temperature for use

Use chocolate as a coating and as a constituent of a coating to include

• moulding and dipping

• Ganache

Produce chocolate preparations to include

• piping and spinning

• moulding

• modelling paste

• run-outs/cut-outs

• Ganache and Truffle

Produce a saleable selection of a minimum of 6 different chocolates and a simple centre using chocolate ensuring that you use appropriate equipment for

• tempering and modifying the temperature of chocolate

• moulding

• piping and spinning

• dipping

• finishing

Royal Icing Techniques for Cake Decoration

You are going to coat and decorate 1 square cake or dummy using your own design.

• Full collars

• Microdots and graduated line work (including sides)

• Run out motif/lettering

• Piped decorative lettering

• Tube embroidery

• Modelled centre pieces

• Simple pressure piping e.g. birds, flowers, bows etc.

Modelling Techniques for Cake Decoration

You are going to experiment with a range of modelling pastes to produce simple 2D and 3D models which you will display in an appropriate way.

• Cutting

• Moulding

• Shaping

• Forming

• Textured rolling pins

• Any other appropriate skills

Produce Novelty Cakes

You are going to coat and decorate a novelty cake to a brief provided by your tutor/trainer. It can be of any shape, and you are going to design the cake yourself to include 2D and 3D decoration.

• Crumb sealing

• Shaping and forming base cakes

• Assembly

Finish the cake in line with the brief and your design to a neat and saleable finish making sure that you demonstrate your skills in a range of techniques to include

• Modelling, shaping and forming embellishments and cake ornamentation

• Piping

• Rolling

• Cutting

• Colouring

How you will gain the qualification

Observation, finished product.

What qualifications you need

Entry requirements are progression from a Level 1 Cake decoration program or relevant industry experience.

Where to next

Progression onto next level of study and employment as a qualified Cake decorator within this sector of industry.