The Love Bird Cake Class
This class is all about creating a cute and fun square party cake with a retro twist that will work in a multitude of colours. Focusing on geometric designs with a retro theme and working with moist lemon cake, this class is suitable for beginners and intermediates.
What you will learn
In this class, you will work with a gorgeous lemon madeira cake. We will supply the cake for you and teach you the tricks of keeping lemon cake moist and soft ready for any party or special occasion. During the class you will learn:
- How to cut, split, level, and stack a real square cake.
- How to make and use lemon sugar syrup in your cake to keep it moist.
- How to crumb coat your cake using a white chocolate ganache butter cream.
- How to cover a real square cake and a square dummy cake including how to perfect corners without tearing your fondant covering.
- The professional tricks behind a clean finish, flat sides and a level base.
- How to correctly cover a square board.
- How to correctly ‘raise’ your cake away from the cake board.
- How to apply an overlapping border to the base of your cake.
- How to make cute little love bird cake toppers.
- How to correctly work with colour for a party cake effect.
- How to create a cute side bunting with a stitching effect.
- How to work with dowels and other specialist tools.
- How to properly use ribbons and/or lace to decorate cakes and boards including our tried and tested techniques.
Class Times, Level and Equipment
This class is a one day class. The class starts at 10.15 and runs to approximately 5pm.
Everything is explained to you step by step and as with all our classes, all equipment is provided for you. You do not need to bring anything with you except a small packed lunch.
This class is suitable for complete beginners and those with some intermediate experience. As our groups are small but our kitchen is very large with plenty of space, separate standing areas, seated areas, photography area and shop, we are able to cater for those of differing standards and ensure you get individual attention.
Your Tutor
This class will be taught by Rachel, an expert in making tiered wedding cakes. Rachel’s cakes are regularly featured in bridal magazines and she provides cakes to some of London’s most prestigious hotels.
Rachel has vast experience in making big cakes and this is a real opportunity to ask an expert everything you could want to know about decorating big cakes including how to properly price such cakes for sale, how to deal with difficult cake shapes and how to achieve the perfect finish.
As a regular Guest Tutor at Pretty Witty Cakes, Rachel has a wealth of teaching experience having taught 100s of our prior students.
Testimonials from prior students
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Take Home Fact Pack
You will be given a fact sheet describing the techniques you learnt during the day so you can refresh your mind next time you decorate a big cake. Of course, there are also lots of tips on our Facebook page
We supply lots of tea and coffee throughout the day and you can take breaks whenever you wish.
How to book your class
Click here to book our Love Bird Cake Class.
Location: Our Love Bird Cake Class is based at Pretty Witty HQ, a bright, spacious and airy 40 foot kitchen in Crowborough (TN6) on the Kent, East Sussex border.
Price: £195 (includes VAT where applicable).
Time : 10:15am – approximately 5pm
Travel: We can assist with all travel arrangements including advising on trains and flights, pick up from the airport or train station. For those coming by car, we have ample private and enclosed parking at the house.
Before booking, please ensure you read the terms and conditions on this website and also double check the date that you wish to attend as there will be no refunds for cancellations. Class places are non-transferable.
For further details, please email [email protected] or call 07976 32 72 78.