Course dates will be confirmed 6 weeks in advance or when all students have enrolled. A $500 refundable* deposit  is required to reserve your place (Full course fee is $1,500.00 and balance is due by March 6, 2025.)

Discover your creative flair and learn a variety of skills to take your decorating skills to the next level. Students will be supplied with the Carving/Modelling Tool Kit (see full list below) which will be theirs to keep at the end of the course.

As this is an intensive course, space is limited to 8 students.

Are there specific requirements for joining?

This course is suited to bakers/decorators wishing to improve their modeling, carving and sugar-craft skills.

Course Aims: Learn the skills needed to professionally carve, cover and embellish realistic looking 3D cakes using different techniques of buttercream, ganache, fondant, modeling chocolate, sugar florist paste, isomalt, chocolate leather and modelling paste. Skills you will learn include:

• Stacking, Carving and Shaping cakes to create 3D cakes

• Scaling components from images to create correctly proportioned elements (and reusable templates)

• Creating and using:

  • Handmade Fondant

  • Chocolate Modelling Fondant

  • Modelling Chocolate

  • Chocolate Leather

  • Modeling Paste

  • Edible Mixed Media Paper

  • Edible Moss Cake

• Tempering and casting chocolate

• Using an airbrush to color and highlight your designs

• Using various carving tools and the Zeoto Pen Heat Decorating Tool to carve elements including the chocolate egg

• Using texture mats, tools and hand modelling to create realistic textures

• Creating custom modelling tools for this and future projects

• Creating stable structures, dowling, stacking and packaging for successful transportation

• Safely using LED lights to enhance design elements

• Pulling design elements together successfully including dusting, painting, and coloring;

• Staging photographs for your portfolio (including use of our backdrops, props, and lighting to produce professional images for your course project)

*If there are not enough students for a scheduled module, or for whatever reason the class needs to be postponed your deposit (and any installments) will be refunded in full or you can choose to carry it over to the next scheduled course.

Balance of course fee is due four weeks (March 6th, 2025) before class commences to allow time for materials to be ordered. You will be notified 6 weeks in advance or when all eight spots (we require a minimum of 5 students) are reserved, whichever comes first to confirm booking. Please do not book flights until your spot has been confirmed.

If you would like to implement a payment plan, please email Angela at [email protected] after you have paid your initial deposit and a payment plan will be set up for you. Alternatively, gift certificates can also be used for the deposit or to pay off the balance- many of our students avail of this option as friends and family purchase gift certificates for holidays and birthdays.

If you are traveling from out of town/overseas and would like to share an Air B&B with other students, please email Angela at [email protected].

Please note: This is a LARGE cake- the board is 20” square, the cake at its highest point is 16” and it weighs over 50lbs/23Kilos, so may be difficult (but not impossible) to transport back if you are flying.

Many students already own many of the tools used for carved cakes, we will discuss any additional items we’d recommend in addition to the carving/modelling tool kit listed below..

A 10% discount is provided for any additional tools, cutters, equipment that you may wish to purchase on the course.

Students will be supplied with the Modelling/Carving Tool Kit (see full list below) which will be theirs to keep at the end of the course.

• Zeoto Pen Heat Decorating Tool

• PME 13 piece Modeling Tool Kit: Bone Tool/Shell & Blade Tool/Ball Tool/Scallop & Comb Tool/Serrated & Tapered Cone Tool/Tapered Cones 5/6 Star Tool/Bulbous Cone Tool/Flower/Leaf Shaper Tool/Cutting Wheels/3 Piece Design Wheeler/Quilting Tool/Scriber Needle/Blade Knife

• Innovative Sugarworks Sugar Shapers Set

• Innovative Sugarworks Sugar Smoothers Set

• Carving Tool Set

• JEM No. 12 Veiner/Friller Scallop Tool

• JEM No. 4 Dresden & Veining Tool

• PME Sugar Florist Paste

• Florida Academy of Baking apron, pen/pencil, document sleeves, and binder

• Recipes, ingredients, packaging, and materials required for class projects (e.g. Cake Boards, floral wires, piping bags, cake boxes.)