CHELTENHAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Our venue is set in a beautiful Grade II Cotswold property with stunning countryside views. We pride ourselves on our friendly informal workshops where students work side by side with us during the day.
We are located within a 15 minute drive from the centre of Cheltenham, Kingham railway station with direct fast 90 minute links to London Paddington is just 15 minutes away, and a 25 minutes drive of the M5. In all workshops all equipment, refreshments and lunch is provided and all you have to bring to your class is yourself.
If you do not see the course or cake decorating skill you would like to learn, just give us a call or send us an email with your request and we will advise you how we can help you.
Creating beautiful celebration cakes is all about style and build. We cover style in our Design Masterclass, but on this course this is all about how to build the most perfectly formed celebration cake. You will work on pre-baked cakes to save time on the day but we will cover fully our tips on how to bake, syrup for moisture and flavour your cakes. How to carve and shape them ready to create the structure and finish of a very professional celebration cake. We teach you the skills to create the modern taller style cakes, with straight sides, flat tops and lovely sharp shoulders. This workshop is ideal for anyone wanting to create professional cakes for a living, or who are creating that special cake for family or friends because you just love to bake!!! The course is suitable for anyone from absolute beginners to improvers to even Michelin star pastry chefs (we have trained four!!!)
In order to give our full attention to the student on this intense one day class, we run this course only on a one to one or two students sharing basis at our Cheltenham location - We offer flexible workshop dates to suit. Just contact us by phone or e-mail to express your interest and we can then advise you in more detail of the course content, costs and dates.
Below is a list of what we will cover on the Celebration Cake Masterclass:-
The Celebration Cake Masterclass will teach you innovative ways to create the most perfectly formed modern styles cakes. The image here shows a 6in cake x 10in in height covered in luscious Caramel chocolate ganache. On the workshop itself you will create a freshly baked 6inch x 4inch cake from scratch using Buttercream to create the perfect finish and pin sharp edges as shown in this image, but we also teach you how to use chocolate ganache using the same methods to create stunning cakes in ganache. We provide the full instructions and the recipes and formulas to be used when making ganache using white, milk or dark chocolate
The class is all about structure and build to create the most perfect finish to your cakes, starting with the shaping and adding syrup to freshly baked cakes, which are provided, and creating a perfectly sharp top edge wth straight sides, a level top.
The second image shows the option of an intermediate layer which sits over the buttercream coat and under fondant - this provides a very stable base for your fondant to adhere to and make it very sound, especially in warm weather. This can be done in modelling paste or marzipan.
The fondant covering shown in the image has semi sharp shoulders for a softer effect, but the class teaches you how to build your cake very sharp top edges.
The final image shows how to create a semi naked cake and we give you detailed notes on the recipe and skills to create the super-sharp chocolate drip cake finish.
You will leave the class with:-
To find out more about this class which is available on-going with a choice of dates - please contact us at info@creativecakeacademy.co.uk - you can do this by clicking the link on the Contact Us page of out website or just give us a telephone call to chat through the options and pricing.
We look forward to hearing from you.
PICTURE PERFECT GILT/FORAL CUPAKES - GIFT BOXED COLLECTION
Our newest cupcake collection, designed very much with weddings, wedding favours, and gift inspired. The gorgeous set of nine cupcakes embellished with gilt picture frames, pretty flowers and central fondant lace cupcake having a personal message.
There are lots of skills to learn in this class including baking the perfect cupcake, immaculate fondant covering with luscious buttercream filled cupcakes, how to create gilt frames, pretty flowers and a personal message banner. The cupcakes are all presented in a lidded gift box with beautiful ribbon bow tie.
Please contact us for more details on availability of this workshop, which can run on a one to one basis or a small group of up to 4 persons.
Skill sets included in this workshop:-
The beautiful filigree work on this celebration cake shows how effective royal icing can be. This masterclass teaches you how to create perfect royal icing and then thin it down to create three strengths for piping, brush embroidery and flooding for use on cookies. The techniques you will learn on this workshop include detailed piping work, stencilling, brush embroidery, cookie toppings and the new modern techniques used on Wedding Cakes to create 3D overpiped flowers to resemble the lace of a bride's dress.
We run this workshop from our Cheltenham location on a private tuition or small group basis where we are therefore flexible on workshop dates with no set dates - just contact us to discuss your requirements.
Skill sets covered in this workshop:-
PLEASE CALL US ON 01451 851076 OR 07780 454592 FOR PRIVATE TUITION PRICING INFORMATION ON THIS CLASS
The mini cake masterclass teaches you how to bake and construct the very beautiful mini cakes, from rich fruit cake or sponge and finish the cakes with pretty sugar flowers and embellishment, either in the Floral design shown, the new vintage design or the wedding design (as seen on the Gallery page) with Pearls, embossed roses, hearts and butterflies. In the workshop you will create 5 mini cakes and learn the skills to decorate them in your chosen design.
We run this workshop from our Cheltenham location on a private tuition or small group basis where we are therefore flexible on workshop content and dates - just contact us to discuss your requirements.
Skill sets on this workshop include:-
PLEASE CALL US ON 01451 851076 OR 07780 454592 FOR PRIVATE TUITION PRICING INFORMATION ON THIS CLASS
Our Vintage Cupcakes Roses and Pearls has now become an iconic set that you will see many times on the internet, it has been shared, admired and attempts to copy on many occasions. On this workshop you will create a set of 12 beautiful cupcakes with lots of decoration techniques including creating the perfect domed topped cupcake, stencilling, embossing, hand painting, creating lovely sugar roses, pearls and much more. This is a workshop we would recommend as a Cupcake Masterclass to add to your cake decorating skills as this design has proved to be iconic and is well featured on the internet and sought after to purchase.
At the moment we only run this workshop on a private tuition or small group basis from our Cheltenham location. Just give is a call or e-mail us to chat through your requirements - again we are flexible on dates.
Skill sets included in this workshop:-
PLEASE CALL US ON 01451 851076 OR 07780 454592 FOR PRIVATE TUITION PRICING INFORMATION ON THIS CLASS
If you usually turn to the internet for cake design ideas from others before you make your celebration, mini or cupcakes, then this is the class for you. It is aimed to help you have the confidence to create your own colour palettes and designs from scratch starting with a mood board of colours shapes and things you love.
People love the designs and colours used by The Creative Cake Academy and in this class we will teach you all of our secrets. By the end of the class you will have created your own design board with a colour palette, a brand new cake design and fondant colour samples that you will use in your unique creation.
You need not worry if you feel you cannot draw, this workshop is all about getting you to indentify how to create a beautiful harmonising colour palette and also shows you where to get the most useful of inspirational designs, techniques and free software to enable you to expand your knowledge and skills.
Understanding how colours harmonise together and work together will also help you create a palette of colours that form the colour structure of your cake design. We also look at designing your cake, whether it be a tiered celebration cake, a single layer birthday cake, or a series of mini or cupcakes.
We are able to run this workshop on a one to one basis or small group on a private tuition basis at our Cheltenham location. If you are interested in making an enquiry about suitable dates for yourself or with a small group of friends, please call us to chat through what options we have available..
PLEASE CALL US ON 01451 851076 OR 07802 529259 FOR PRIVATE TUITION PRICING INFORMATION ON THIS CLASS
If you love chocolate, then this is the class for you. On this workshop we work on small cakes to create a box of 12 very pretty chocolate, turquoise and ivory cupcakes, all made with chocolate ingredients. We teach you how to use chocolate in many forms including creating chocolate ganache, rich chocolate buttercream, chocolate plastique (modelling paste for flower forms), very pretty chcolate transfer sheets and much more. All of the skills are bundled onto small cupcakes, but all are transferrable to large cakes.
This course can also be run on a private tuition basis at any time by prior arrangement - just give us a call to arrange. We can also run the workshop on a small group basis.
Skills sets included in this workshop:-
We have an additional page dedicated to helping you with Hints and Tips to help you on your cake decorating and baking - click the headings below to take you to our Hints and Tips page.
HOW TO RE-SIZE YOUR CAKE RECIPE FOR MULTI TIN SIZES