Cake Decorating

We offer Cake Decorating / Cupcake Decorating courses at the Isle of Man College and St Ninian's Lower School, Bemahague, Onchan during the evenings.

Cake Decorating for Beginners - Basic introduction to decorating cakes, royal icing, marzipan modelling, sugar flowers and decorating your own cake.

Cake Decorating for Improvers - Learn more cake decorating skills in royal icing and marzipan.

Wired Sugar Flowers for Beginners - Learn how to produce a simple wired sugar flower arrangement suitable for a celebration cake.

Cupcake Decorating for Beginners Workshop - Learn how to decorate individual cupcakes with fondant icing and butter cream. Make edible decorations using piping skills.

Christmas Cake and Cupcake Decorating Workshop - Learn how to ice and decorate your own Christmas cupcakes.

Giant Cupcake Decorating Workshop - Learn how to decorate a giant cupcake suitable for a special occasion/celebration.

Easter Cakes/Cupcake Decorating Workshop - Learn how to decorate individual cupcakes/cakes for Easter with fondant icing and butter cream and make edible decorations using piping skills.

Demonstration/practical courses. Students are required to provide their own ingredients and equipment.
What Subjects will I study?

Royal Icing
Marzipan
Sugarpaste skills and techniques
Ability to cover cakes and make sugar decorations
Ability to make wired sugar flowers using 'pulled' and cutter techniques, piped flowers / marzipan teddies / Christmas flowers / roses / garnett frills
Smocking technique
Brush embroidery