ABC Level 1 Cake Decoration PT Evening

Coating and Decorating round and square Cakes with Sugar paste

Covered the cakes/dummies with sugar paste to achieve a neat finish with the following skills included, crimping, embossing, incorporating colour, simple marzipan shapes, simple cut out, sugar paste shapes, simple piped decoration/lettering.

Coating and Decorating Small Cakes and Biscuits with a Variety of Coatings

A range of small cakes and biscuits such as cookies, cupcakes, mini cakes, cake-pops.

Prepared designs for a range of small cake and biscuit products taking note of

Size, Shape, Spacing, Colour and Colour Harmonies.

Modelling with Marzipan and Sugarpaste

Use marzipan and sugar paste to produce simple models from a design, e.g. balls, cylinders, cones, pyramids which can be made into simple figures such as snowmen, a caterpillar, chicks/ducks, and simple roses/flowers. Identify a variety of equipment used to model in marzipan and sugarpaste.

Coating and Decorating Cakes with Royal Icing

Coat and decorate 1 round cake or dummy using the following skills

Coating, Line work, S and C Scrolls and rope, Lettering – run out/single line, Shells/bulbs, Pipe dropped flowers, Stencilling. Identify and use a range of equipment used for icing to include, making pipe bags, use of various piping tubes, available stencils, straight edge and side scraper.

For all the above units

Use equipment safely, display your finished products, store your ingredients and finished products correctly, performed all tasks safely and hygienically.

How you will gain the qualification

Observation, finished product.

What qualifications you need

No entry requirements at level 1, a keen interest in the profession is essential to progress on this course.

Where to next

Progression onto next level of study and employment as a junior within this sector of industry.