Cake and Candy Classes Taught By Cake Art
Cake Art 1 - Decorating Basics Course 1 Sign Up
This 4-session class is the perfect beginning to your new Cake Decorating experience. First lesson, your Instructor will teach you how to make Decorationg Icing, color your icing, then prepare and fill your decorating bags. You'll learn a few techniques and use those to decorate the cookies you bring. In the subsequent lessons you will learn to level, torte, fill and frost a cake, learn to decorate cupcakes and several nice borders. Shells, Stars, Ribbon Roses and more. Practice at home between class sessions is vital to mastering the techniques. This class is a prerequisite for most of our classes.
$105.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Course Book, Supply Kit, and Tax - Register early to reserve your seat in class!
Cake Art 2 - Flowers and Cake Design Course 2 Sign Up
The latest version of Cake Art Course 2 brings back some wonderful techniques and adds some new ones. This class is all about piping – a real must for any serious cake decorator and wonderful flowers for those wanting to provide their family and guests with flowers you can’t get just anywhere. The Classic Rose is accompanied by Rosebuds, Pansies, Violets, Lilies and more. We are so excited about the succulents we're adding to the class this year. Basket-weave, Rope and Reverse Shell Borders. All of this in the fun environment of our Cake Art Classroom makes this a class you won’t want to miss! Our price includes your course kit, lesson plan PLUS edible glitter, parchment triangles that you will need for class. Prerequisite: Course 1
$99.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Course Book, Supply Kit, and Tax - Register early to reserve your seat in class!
Cake Art 3 - Gum Paste and Fondant Course 3
In this class, we learn more about gum paste and fondant. We will make beautiful gum paste roses, calla lilies, and daisies. We’ll make a lovely gum paste loop bow. Then we will cover a cake with fondant and decorate the cake with your beautiful flowers and the design of your choice.
Four 2- hour sessions. You must complete Course 1 before this course begins.
$119.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Course Book, Supply Kit, and Tax - Register early to reserve your seat in class!
Candy 123 Sign Up
This two hour candy class is a demonstration packed with information. Instructor will discuss how to melt and store our chocolate candies as well as the use and care of candy molds. We’ll teach you how to make molded and dipped chocolates. These include chocolate covered cherries, peanut butter cups and bonbons, painted suckers and packaging of your goodies. You will learn you how to make barks with the various crunches and goodies we sell and each class will include some ideas for any upcoming holiday. At the end of the class, samples will be offered and recipes provided. At $5, this class can’t be beat! Bring friends and family- after the class you can use your discount toward supplies to make these yummy treats at home. One 2-hour session.
$10.00 Tuition - No supplies required as this class is a demonstration
Advanced Candy Making - Hands on Candy Making
Our 3 hour Advanced Candy class is a fun, hands-on experience. The beautiful confections we make include both traditional and piped truffles and a lovely 3-D chocolate box with painted details. We will fashion beautiful chocolate roses from candy clay and learn how to make chocolate rose leaves to accompany them. You will learn to duplicate just about any image in chocolate to use for cakes and centerpieces. How to use cocoa butter transfers is demonstrated and each student takes home their beautiful and delicious work as well as the tools they used to make them.
$49.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax.
Just Cupcakes
This 3 hour class includes discussion of baking cupcakes, flavor ideas and presentation options. Introducing you to some of the basic skills of cake decorating, we’ll decorate the cupcakes, featuring many ideas from cupcake books we sell at the shop. Cupcakes are all the rage for every type of event, from birthdays to weddings! We provide the cupcakes, the icing and the fun! A great class to take with a friend - or an older child or grandchild! (12 years and up).
One 3-hour session. No prerequisites.
$59.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, Cupcakes to Decorate, and Tax.
Business of Cakes - Practical Information to Help you Make Money! Sign Up
This class is for people that want to learn how to make money in doing cakes. Our 3 hour lecture touches on many aspects of your home based cake business. While pointing out the various supplies and equipment you will need in your venture, we also discuss legal issues, advertising, business expansion as well as business plans and sources for education and rejuvenation. While the rules and regulations vary from county to county, we provide you with information to guide you in the acquisition of various permits and counseling that will lead to your business success. Learn guidelines and formulas for pricing your cakes; advertising your business; contracts; delivery, and more.
$30.00 Tuition - No supplies required as this class is a lecture.
Cake Art’s Beginning Fondant - Cover and Decorate a Cake with Rolled Fondant
Rolled Fondant Class Impress your family, friends and clients with a beautiful rolled fondant design! Four hours dedicated to rolled fondant. Our instructor will teach you how to handle the fondant, color it and cover a single 8 inch round cake. Using your fondant molds and various tools we sell at the shop, you’ll decorate your cake with appliqués, borders and more. You can make a beautiful cake without picking up a decorating bag! Other more advanced techniques will be demonstrated. One four hour session plus a 30 minute break. No prerequisites.
$69.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax
Advanced Fondant - Fondant Tiered Cake with Swags and Bows
This class is for those who have experience in covering cake tiers with fondant, and want to take it a new level. Our class project is a two tier cake, covered in fondant and decorated with various designs; including quilting and double quilting, brush embroidery and the use of lace and appliqué molds. We will adorn our cakes with beautiful bows, tails and drapes that sparkle with pearl dusts. You go home with new skills you can use to duplicate many of the beautiful cakes you see in the bridal magazines or to design your own breathtaking creations. PREREQUISITE: Cake 1 and one of the fondant classes
Extraordinary Cheesecakes - Learn the Secrets of Homemade Cheesecakes Sign Up
Learn about the various crust types used in cheesecakes, matching the crust to the batter, how to incorporate flavorings such as fruit, peanut butter, liquors, and chocolate. Waterbath vs. dry oven method, times, temperatures, and cooling. How to properly cut a cheesecake, techniques for perfect preparation, and more! Sign-up for both Extraordinary Cheesecakes and Baking Essentials and save $10.00! (Please note: the $10.00 discount will not show up on your online receipt, but we will deduct when we process your transaction at the store).
$30.00 Tuition - No supplies required as this class is a lecture/demonstration.
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Baking Essentials - Make Perfect Cakes Everytime!
In this class you will learn baking with an understanding of ingredients, measuring and mixing methods, various oven temperatures and baking times. Solve all your baking problems and lots of tips and tricks to save you time, and make baking more enjoyable! Sign-up for both Extraordinary Cheesecakes and Baking Essentials and save $10.00! (Please note: the $10.00 discount will not show up on your online receipt, but we will deduct when we process your transaction at the store).
$30.00 Tuition - No supplies required as this class is a lecture/demonstration.
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Airbrushing - Learn the Techniques Used By Professionals
Learn the techniques of free hand airbrushing, making and using stencils, and projectors to create backgrounds and 3-Dimensional looks and more. Students receive a 20% discount on the purchase of an airbrush or projector on the day of class!
$10.00 Tuition - No supplies required as this class is a demonstration
Sculptured Cakes - Learn to make a 3-Dimensional Playfull Puppy Sign Up
This 4 hour class is just plain fun! We will make a cake shaped like a puppy or other animal that is 100 percent edible. You provide the cake layers, we provide the icing and crisp rice treats. After completion of your adorable animal, we will bring it to life using air brush color, also provided in the class. The techniques learned in class can be used to make all kinds of sculptured cakes for different occasions. Your 3 dimensional cakes will be in great demand. Sign-up for the Sculptured Cake class and the Airbrushing class is free! PREREQUISITE: Cake 1
$79.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax. Sign-up For this Class and the Airbrushing Class is Free!
Petit Fours - Learn to Make Petit Fours for all those Special Occasions! Sign Up
Petit Fours means “Little Oven” in French. Petit fours are various shaped mini cakes that are traditionally iced in poured fondant and decorated to suit the occasion. In our 2 hour class, each student will enrobe the little cakes in poured fondant or white chocolate and learn various ways to decorate them. Petite Fours to decorate for each student are included. These tiny cakes are so popular for bridal showers, baby showers, teas, and holidays - or just for yourself because they are soooo delicious! Recipes for these cakes, glaze and fondant are provided so you can make them at home. PREREQUISITE: Cake 1
$59.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, Petite Fours to Decorate, and Tax
Rose Workshop Sign Up
In this two hour class we will review the Ribbon Rose and learn many more. Classic piped rose on a nail. Also learn to pipe a rose on a stick, Roses with a chocolate kiss center. The number of roses covered will depend on how much we can cover as a group. Other possibilities include the Wild Rose and a hand molded Tootsie Roll Rose. One 2-hour session.
You must complete Course 1 before this class begins.
$39.99 Total Cost - Include Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax
Topsy Turvy, Whimsical, Whacky and Wonky Cakes
They have many names and are bring such a dramatic presentation for birthdays, anniversaries, showers and yes, even weddings! We’ll create a two-tier asymmetrical cake in class, decorated with wild colors or beautiful pastels as you prefer. Using diamond patterns, ribbon roses and many other designs, each student brings their artsy or elegant design to reality with terrific tools that come in the class kit, as well as getting to try others you may decide to purchase. The instructor will demonstrate how to create these special tiers using real cake and discuss in detail the structural aspects that are so important with this type of cakes. You must complete Course 1 before this class begins and be very comfortable covering cakes with fondant, as there is no time for teaching this aspect in the class.
$99.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax
Decorated Cookie Class - Learn to Create Beautiful Decorated Cookies
5 hour session plus lunch break. After discussing tips and recipes for tasty, sturdy cookies, we'll decorate cookies with royal icing, chocolate and fondant This class includes candy coating, sprinkles and the tools needed to make more of these goodies for your family and friends.
No prerequisite.
$69.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, Cookies to Decorate, and Tax
Embossed Buttercream - Learn to Create Elegant Designs Using Buttercream Sign Up
Learn to use different impression mats, how to align, adjust and match patterns to make cakes that look like a million using buttercream! Create a spectacular bow out of gumpaste for the cake you will make in class. The buttercream techniques learned in this class can also be applied to fondant and gumpaste. PREREQUISITE: Cake 1
Pop Treats Class - Learn to make these popular cake treats! Sign Up
In this three-hour session, includes a demonstration giving you all you need to know on how to prepare these delightful cake, cookie and brownie pops on sticks and cake bon-bons too! Then you will dip and decorate pops made of cake, cookie and brownie and some cake bon-bons to take home. Your kit will include candy coating, sprinkles and the tools needed to make more of these goodies for your family and friends.
$49.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax
Grooms Cake Class - Learn Something New & Different for the Groom!
In this class students will learn to make traditional Grooms Cakes as well as ideas for those couples looking for something different and unique. We will show you techniques for different side designs, applying initials or special insinias and themes. PREREQUISITE: Cake 1
$69.99 Total Cost - Includes Tuition, Supply Kit, and Tax
Sugar Critters
Come join us for 3 hours of modeling fun. We’ll be working with a fondant and modeling chocolate medium but all techniques can be used with marzipan as well. Animals like dogs, cows and koalas. Fruits and vegetables and of course, we must do a human!! Your supplies will include all modeling medium for class and a great set of tools you’ll take home as your own. Recipes also provided. One 3-hour session
$59.99 total Cost Includes Tuition, Supplies and Tax
Cake Art’s Wedding Class
This class is for those who want to go on to make wedding and tiered cakes. The class includes a number of classic wedding side designs and borders as well as Bridal laces, string work and garlands. In a lecture, the instructor demonstrates how to assemble your cake with structural integrity. We’ll cover the different methods used to make sure your beautiful cake stays upright. Tastings, contracts, delivery, set up will be covered. In the final session, each student will assemble and decorate a 3 tier wedding cake, with hands on experience in doweling and stacking. We’ll take some pictures of you with your beautiful cake before we help you pack it up to take it home.
You must complete Courses 1 and 2 before this class begins.
Three 3-hour sessions in a weekend class. Four 2-hour sessions in a weekday class.
$99.99 Total Cost – Includes Tuition, Course Book, Supply Kit and Ta