Do you love vintage cakes? Those Lambeth style cakes seem to have popped straight out of an old-fashioned cookbook, but they came back in style. With many piping styles, rosettes, and pearls you will learn to fill, crumb coat and decorate your very own cake to take home. You will choose to decorate a round or a heart-shaped cake, monochromatic, super colourful or anywhere in between.

In this fun day-course, you will learn skills you can practice time and time again, so you can make your loved ones amazing cakes for all occasions. Join Tania for a day of fun and glam cake decorating – or just a laugh! Don’t miss out.

Course Outline:

Fill, crumb coat and decorate your own vintage style cake to take home.

Learning Outcomes:

• Successfully fill, crumb coat and decorate your own vintage style cake.
• Learn to decorate with many piping tips.
• Colour your buttercream and match colours

What to bring:

• 2x round cakes (undecorated sponge from the supermarket are fine)
• 2 batches of white buttercream
• Gel food colouring (your choice of colours)
• Turntable (it can be a Kmart one),
• spatula
• piping bags
• piping tips = 4B, 6B, Leaf petal tip, 1M, #16, #3, ruffle tip (such as #104)
• ruler
• scraper
• silicone spatula
• Pearls/ round sprinkles (optional)

About the Tutor:

'Tania is the owner of Penny Lane Bakery, a local Shire business who specialises in delicious and beautiful cakes, cookies and other treats. Tania started baking as a teenager, decades ago, tempering chocolate and making Easter eggs, then moved on to small treats and cakes.
With a Brazilian background, Tania focuses on delicious flavours and perfect looking treats. Her motto is: practice, practice, practice. When things go wrong, take a deep breath, dance a little and never give up!'

Other Information:

• To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
• All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.