Learn to cover a 6inch round cake with buttercream creating a smooth professional finish. Learn to decorate your cake with pretty buttercream piping, and sprinkle placement along with how to create a sugar paste topper in an embossed design. This is the perfect class to help you gain confidence with covering large cakes and to learn piping skills. The skills you develop will take you forward with creating beautiful celebration cakes in any style.
In this class you will learn to:
- Split, level and prepare a sponge cake for decorating
- Crumb coat
- Cover your cake with buttercream creating a smooth, professional finish
- Use piping bags and tips to create pretty designs
- Learn to make a sugar paste topper in an embossed design
- learn to add shimmer to an embossed design
- All about the best sprinkles to use and how to place them on cakes
- How to present your designs
All the equipment you will need is provided and you will go away from this workshop with a useful handout with step by step instructions and of course your completed cakes. This class is an ideal starting point for those wanting to create professional looking celebration cakes. A perfect class for beginners and is suitable for those with no experience at all. Light refreshments are provided throughout the session and as this is a Christmas themed class there will be a mince pie or two to share. So bring along your Christmas spirit, wear your sparkly jumpers and let’s have a crafty Christmas morning. This cake will freeze so you can use it for Christmas (if you have room in your freezer in December!)
Christmas Sprinkles Cake 13/12/25 10-1 £75
1. Class bookings can be made via the website, if you wish to make a group booking please do so via email or phone.
2. Once payment for a class has been made refunds are not available so please ensure you check all dates, times etc. prior to making the booking. This applies to both individual bookings and group bookings or parties.
3. In the unlikely event that The Old Manor House Bakery has to cancel a class a full refund will be offered if you are not able to meet an alternative date.
4. Refunds will only be offered for the price you paid for the class, we cannot be held liable for any other money spent by the student eg. travel expenses. It is recommended that you purchase your own insurance to cover these eventualities.
5. We cannot hold classes pending payment, your place is not secure until payment has been received and you have received a confirmation email.
6. If you arrive more than 15 minutes late for the class you will be unable to join the class.
7. The minimum age for students is 16 yrs old, any children wishing to attend younger than 16yrs old must be accompanied by a full paying adult.
8. Any student with special dietary requirements must notify The Old Manor House Bakery at the time of booking.
9. We reserve the right to alter course content at any time. Handmade products will not be identical and we reserve the right to change a design if the end result would benefit from this.
10. Workshops are attended completely at your own risk, we will not be held liable for any injuries or accidents that occur during the workshops.
11. You are strictly prohibited from using our designs, lesson plans or photographs in classes that you host or intend to host for either teaching activity or promotional material.
12. We reserve the right to cancel classes at short notice if sufficient spaces are not booked, you will be offered alternative dates but if these are not suitable a refund will be offered. It is not financially viable to run classes which are less than half full.