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Who is this course for?
Ready to get started with cake decorating? This practical three-week course will introduce you to the essential skills needed to work with sugarpaste and create a beautifully covered and decorated cake. You’ll learn how to roll, lift, apply and smooth sugarpaste, before developing your skills through simple borders, textures and decorative techniques. In the final session, you’ll bring everything together to create your own finished celebration cake.

Entry Requirements
There are no minimum entry requirements for this course.

What you will learn
Week 1 - Sugarpaste & Cake Covering: Getting Started
Learn the basics of working with sugarpaste, including rolling, lifting, applying and smoothing. You’ll practise covering an 8-inch cake dummy and learn how to achieve a smooth, neat finish.

Week 2 - Sugarpaste & Cake Covering: Building Your Skills
Develop your cake-covering skills and learn how to achieve cleaner edges and a more professional-looking finish. Explore borders, textures, simple patterns and decorative details that can be used to enhance your cake.

Week 3 - Sugarpaste & Cake Covering: Creative Cake Design
Bring your new skills together to create a complete decorated celebration cake. You’ll plan your colour scheme and decoration, combine different sugarpaste techniques and create a finished cake to take home.

How you will learn
You will gain knowledge via presentations, demonstrations, group discussions, question and answer sessions and practical exercises.

What will you need to bring
What the college provides:
- 8-inch round cake dummy
- 10-inch round cake drum for practice
- Sugarpaste for Weeks 1 and 2
- Basic equipment for the sessions

For Week 3, you will need to bring:
- 8-inch round firm sponge cake, ready to decorate
- 10-inch round cake drum
- 1kg sugarpaste

How you will be assessed
Your tutor will provide valuable development feedback throughout the session.

Where next?
We have a range of sugarcraft skills courses that you can progress onto. Please see our web listings for further details.

What we expect from you
You are required to attend every session. The minimum required attendance for this course is 85%. Anything below this attendance will be reviewed by the Curriculum Development Manager and you may be withdrawn from the course and the outstanding course fees will still be payable. Please see our terms and conditions for more information.

Havering Adult College requires its learners and staff to uphold the following good behaviour principles:

-Act in a way that would not upset or offend others
- Treat all staff and all other learners with respect at all times
- Use appropriate language and not make remarks likely to offend; either verbally, in writing on or via social media
- Attend regularly and arrive on time
- If you are unable to attend or arrive on time, you must inform us by emailing your teacher or phoning 01708 434955 option 1, option 2
- Follow Health and Safety guidelines for the venue and those specifically related to the course you are attending
- Turn off mobile phones whilst in class (except in an emergency)
- Actively promote British values