Cake Décor (Beginners)

In this course students will familiarise themselves with all the basic aspects of cake decorating using fondant, also known as plastic icing or RTR (Ready to Roll) and Royal icing. For this course, the students will also bake their own white mud cake.

The decor techniques you will learn will be based around commercial cake decorating, not hobby cake decorating. For example, roses will only take you 5 minutes each to make without cutters, compared to the more complex flowers made using cutters and petals one at the time, which is very time consuming and commercially not practical. The idea is that you can make the cake at a commercial standard, in a relatively reasonable time and achieve a profit, based on the time it took you to make your masterpiece. The best four hours of your life is you want to become a cake artist.

Element performance criteria:

In this course, the student will learn to roll out icing, decorate a white mud cake with a lot of different techniques used in cake decorating.

Some of the techniques involved will be:

• Rolling icing.
• Making water ganache (a health department requirement ) to mask your cake.
• Covering the cakes with Plastic icing.
• Using a crimper for border’s decorating.
• Making roses and leaves for the cake.
• Using the air brush to shade parts of the cakes.