CAKE DECORATING - Introduction to Cake Decorating
Join us for our Intro to Masking and Piping class!
This class is great for absolute beginners! And you will achieve all this in just ONE day! Wow!
This is a 2 hour class
We will pre-bake the cake and make the buttercream for you so you can get to the super fun decorating part. This class is instructed by one of our very talented chefs. The best part is, you bring home a fully decorated, delicious cake that YOU will have created. Learn basic piping to finish your cake. (Star tip + rosette design)
In this class you will learn:
- How to fill and stack a cake
- How to crumb coat and fully cover your cake in buttercream using specialized tools
- How to create shells and rosettes to finish your cake
You will leave this class with:
- A finished vanilla American buttercream cake
- A new understanding of buttercreams, including American and Swiss
- A knowledge of how to store and prepare your cake for decorating
- A new understanding of decorating with buttercream, including on trend piping tips and design
- Vanilla cake recipe, American buttercream recipe and a bonus Swiss meringue buttercream recipe (emailed to you before class)
Pictures are for display purposes only. Our chef will talk you through design elements in any picture shown, but for efficiency you will be guided by her in terms of design.
If in doubt about your suitability for this class, please call us to discuss before you book a spot.
All ingredients and equipment is provided, you do not need to bring anything with you. Our chef will ensure that you work at a pace suitable for you.
Add one of our "Good Things Come To Those Who Bake" Aprons when booking your class to bring home one of our lovely aprons!
Please use our hashtag #ledolci and tag us @ledolci when posting your class creations on social media. We’d love to share your content with our followers.
Instructor was very good. I learned a lot. Demonstration was very good.
This was the worst class we had at Le Dolci, and we know because we have been to several classes before and always had a great time. It was mother's day and we bought tickets for the whole family. While the instructor was good (hence why it's a 2 star review rather than 1 star), it was really odd that we had to share buttercream and piping bags with the person next to us. I understand not wasting food (and buttercream can be expensive), but it really felt like rationing a scarce resource, which is not what I'd expect given the price. Also, the ratio of attendees to instructor was way off, such that one or two of the most vocal attendees monopolized the instructors time, which prevented him from even looking in our direction. Also, each person should be given their own bowl to discard the excess crumb coated buttercream. Sharing those bowls was very much unnecessary and added to the "rationing scarce resource " feel to the class. Bottom line is that I think there were too many attendees for that class, or there should have been a second instructor to go around + more bowls/buttercream. The end result cake was amazing to eat (as usual) but we felt that this class really fell flat. I hope you take this feedback not as a complaint, but constructively.
This was a great class taught by chef Megan. I can’t wait to put what I learned into practice on my son’s graduation cake.
It was definitely a fun class. We got to learn how to mask the cake and then shown some piping techniques to start the decorating. This is just a taster course as a lot of practice is needed afterwards and so much more to learn. I felt that there was a lot of information that was shared during the session which would have been good to have been given this in written form for better recall. I wish that I had tried the recipes that were sent to us beforehand so that I could ask questions about them during the class. Like why is much butter used for the buttercream icing??? How do you make a cake that doesn't dome like the cakes that were provided for us.
It was a good starting point and I will continue to practice to try and perfect the skill.
Took my girlfriend for her birthday. She was able to decorate her own birthday cake. Instructions were clear, kitchen was well equipped and we left feeling more confident in our ability to decorate cakes on our own. Lots of good suggestions from the instructor as well to make cake decorating less daunting.
