Category: Classes

The week before last Tuesday our class was focused on learning how to make cake borders. The last Tuesday it was all about flowers. Our students learned how to make Morning Glory, California Poppy, Petunia and Lily from royal icing.

In the short videos bellow Ann demonstrates how to make your flowers.
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Last Tuesday (July 13, 2010) we started one of of our cake decorating classes – the “Tier Cake Class“. As the name of the class says it, it it for those who would like to learn how to make tier cakes- which all of our students will have a chance to do at the last day of this class. But we are not quiet there yet. Some times we need to start with basics.

Last Tuesday during the class we have learned how to make different cake boarders. So here are some we made.

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Congratulations to our students Bonnie Sue Rosenwald, Rebecca Fletcher, Kellie Froes, & Cecelis De Noia for a wonderful job! It was a pleasure to have you all in class!

On Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Chocolate Belles is offering another cake decorating class – “Tier Cake Class”. This class is a 4 weeks long class (on Tuesday night for four weeks in the road). The Tier Cake Class designed for students who would like to learn how to decorate multi tier wedding cakes. During the class students will learn how to make lattice cradle, net flower, more advanced borders, flowers and much much more.

If you are interested in attending please click here to register.

We have successfuly completed our Introduction to Cake Decorating in Fondant last night. One of the things our students learned in the final class was how to do fondant draping. They put everything the have learned during the past three weeks to work and came up with beautiful cakes:

In addition we have interviewed them – you can watch the videos bellow or by visiting http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=364EEA3854B1EE2B.

If you are interested in any of our cake decorating and candy making classes you can see all our upcoming classes here.

We have recently posted few videos form our Introduction to Fondant Cake Decoration class. Below are the remaining videos made during the class. They are arranged in the order they have been recorded. We hope our students will find them useful.

You can also watch the videos on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6C13324301EB322B

We had yet another very successful evening. Our student learned how to make spiral ribbons and flowers for their fondant cakes. Below just two samples. More pictures and video clips from our class coming soon. Big THANK YOU to all our students!

During our Introduction to Decorating With Fondant class we teach our students how to make different flowers. Bellow is the collection of 8 videos filmed during our class. Combined they are about 20 minutes in length. In the videos bellow Ann shows how to make a fondant rose.

If you are planing to decorate fondant cakes, you might consider investing into some basic tools such as fondant mat and rolling pins. We recommend silicon mats and rolling pins. To roll out your fondant use confectioners sugar sprinkling it over the mat and the fondant to prevent fondant from sticking to your mat or your rolling pin. If rolling out fondant to cover a cake you need to consider in the height of the cake. For example of you need to cover a round cake that is 10 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, you need to roll out a round piece of fondant that is 16 inches in diameter or more. It is always easier to cut off the access fondant rather than trying to stretch it. Rolling out fondant is not a difficult step, roll it out as would your dough. Watch the video bellow to see how.

Today you can purchase fondant that is already colored. You are making a cake in deep colors such as black or red you can use a pre-colored fondant. However you can color your white fondant into any color you want using food coloring. The same food coloring you would use to color your butter cream icing. In the video bellow Ann shows you how to color your fondant. You need to start by adding very little food coloring at the time, using a tooth pick. If you want your fondant to be a deep color you need to gradually add more food coloring to it.