Cake Decoration: Sugar Flowers

Course description

Learn how to produce delicate sugar flowers to decorate your home baking.

The aim of this course is to introduce and provide you with techniques in the use of pastillage to make various models in cut out form and also modelling skills to produce wired sugar flowers into a posy/spray.

You will cover the following:

1. Preparing pastillage for centre piece plaques
2. Making a selection of wired sugar flowers: carnations, sweet peas, square and round blossom, filler flowers and leaves
3. Making loops and bows for sprays
4. Dusting flowers and leaves

Equipment from your cake decoration classes and various flower cutters are required for this course. A list of the cutters you will need will be available in the course handbook.

Learning outcome

Progression:

Whether you wish to progress in your studies or enter the world of work, North East Scotland College has excellent progression opportunities, with links to eight universities across Scotland and great relationships with industry employers.

Upon successful completion of this course, you may wish to try other part-time cookery and baking courses at North East Scotland College.