Stage 2 Cupcake Class

We started the day off with a Stage 2 Cupcake class, sat around the kitchen table with lots of new nozzles and tools to play with.

Using flower/gum paste and fondant we shaped some flowers and butterflies, then went onto small bud roses, and then the larger fondant rose.  Making each little petal and gently shaping them into place. Everyone did so well today, the flowers and colours were fantastic.

We then moved onto our little flower nail and new nozzle and made some beautiful buttercream roses and carnations.  Great to practice before putting them directly onto the cupcakes.

Here are the boxes that left Treetops today - I'm so impressed!

Stage 2 - Cupcake Class

This afternoon was our first Stage 2 Cupcake Class.

  This class is for people who have already been to our Stage 1 Class and the idea is that we are able to take the skills and techniques learnt forward to another level, and give ourselves time to learn some useful (and slightly more complicated!) skills.

This shows a section of the kitchen all set up and ready to go.  I had already baked this morning, so we could concentrate on decorative skills and icing techniques.

We spent some time with fondant icing and gum paste, we made cut-out flowers and did some shaping and styling of them.  They looked fantastic.

We made some miniature fondant roses, very fiddly but they just take practice and then we made lots of petals to create a large rose (shown above).  Despite the nerves, they looked beautiful, really impressive!

Below are some of the beautiful boxes of decorated Cupcakes that went home this afternoon.  (We had a bit of a Valentine February theme going on!)