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Creative Cake Decorating: Beginner to Advanced (4wks-Video Course): Age 8-11

In this comprehensive 4 week beginner to advanced cake decorating course, learners will make an advanced/professional tiered or stacked cake, using their own creativity to decorate it.
Lisa O.
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What's included

Homework
1 hour per week. Learners will have things to do, prepare and practice between each class.
Assessment
We'll be showing off their work after each class in the classroom chat.

Class Experience

In this comprehensive 4 week beginner to advanced cake decorating course,  learners will make an advanced/professional tiered or stacked cake, using their own creativity to decorate it. 

There are 9 hours and 41 minutes of video content to watch for this course with over 400 custom made slides with videos and photos showing each step. 

Bonus links to websites and Youtube videos, with fun and applicable information, will be shared in the classroom chat between lessons, to help inspire their cake creations. 
 
If you would like a non tiered cake course, then my “Beginner to Cake Decorating Boss” live course lasts only 5 days, doesn’t require tiering or stacking a cake, has less design content, and is very fast paced and fun! 

Learners can interact as much or little as they like and I'll always answer each question that they have! 


 WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IN EACH CLASS:

Class 1 (video length 58:24): 
We’ll learn:
 How to make a quick, simple, pure white icing with various consistencies 
 How to color icing
 How to properly store the icing
 How to prepare a pastry bag and fill it with the icing
 How to hold and squeeze the bag properly while piping
 How to make leaves, stems and vines.
 How to write words 
 How to change and clean tips


Class 2 (video length 42:25):
We’ll learn:
Borders
 

Class 3 (video length 58:13):
We’ll learn:  
Simple flowers
About drop flowers 
How to make a half carnation
How to make a carnation
How to make a calyx
More borders
Decorate a dummy cake

Class 4 (video length  37:59): 
We’ll learn: 
How to make rose buds
How to make half roses
How to make a rose
How to make an English rose
2 borders    
Decorate a dummy cake


Class 5 (video length  Part 1 is 42:50, Part 2 is 44:14):
We’ll learn: 
How to make a quick and easy chocolate cake from scratch
How to prepare the pans
How to get even layers 
How to flip out and cool the cake
(We will bake it in class but their cakes probably won’t be cool enough to frost until after class but they will learn how to do everything before the next class.  Bring a notebook)
How to properly layer
How to crumb frost 
Naked frost 


Class 6  (video length 57:25):
We'll learn:
How to crown 
How to smooth frost
How to comb  
Cake Trends 
How to plan 
Designing 
How to store the cake


Class 7 (video length 1:12:23)
Color 
Texture 
Tiering 
Transporting
Cutting 
Side decorations 
Making design elements in class

Class 8: (video length 42:56)
We'll learn:
How to decorating the final cake in the proper order  
Photos and “Show n Tell” for those that finish during this class 

Eat it!


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Cake decorating does take prep time, lots of clean up time and practice, so your learner may need some help managing through this large project.   

We will be making a very inexpensive icing and chocolate cake that tastes great, which has stood the test of time at many celebrations but you are welcome to find your own recipes if you like.  However, I've revolved my course around the "American Icing" which is inexpensive and easy for beginners to work with.   
 
I will send out a master supply list, the class homework and prep information, and the recipes for the cake upon enrollment.  They will be attached to your learners welcome letter from me, before this course starts. Please, read all of the information I send to your learners inbox as well as the class posts between classes. 

Ask me questions! 

#creative

Other Details

Parental Guidance
Learners will need some help obtaining all of the supplies for this course. Some students may need help operating the oven and electric mixers.
Supply List
***I will attach a PDF file to your learners welcome email from me with more information about supplies, prep work and homework.  

CLASS SUPPLIES:

CAKE DECORATING EQUIPMENT:
(1) At least 2 pastry bags with couplers and rings (you’ll need 3-4 for the entire class) Any size bags that you can find.  10 inch are fine and easy to handle. I prefer the real pastry bags rather than the disposable ones that blow out easily and are  more rigid to handle.  Plus, I want to encourage the students to keep decorating and if they throw out all of their bags they won't have any when they need them. 


(2) A coupler and ring for each bag. There are small and big couplers.  Get the small ones.  
I do want them to learn how to prepare a bag with couplers so this is necessary to   complete the class.  The couplers are necessary so that the tips can be changed out easily. 
      
(3) Star cake decorating tip (Wilton brand): #16, #,18, #32 OR #21 (find one that's kind of a star looking shape)

We will be using 4 different types of tips for this course.  It's not necessary to get all of these exact numbers or the Wilton brand. 
They are for reference since I'm not sure what cake decorating supplies are available to everyone right now.  This is an international e-learning site so please find what you can where you live in the world. 
(4) Round cake decorating tip (Wilton brand): #3, 5, 7 or 9.  Also, pick up a #12 tip along with one of those if you want to make large dots. 
 (5) Cake decorating tip (Wilton Brand)  #103 or #104 (tear drop shaped for making flowers) #101 is a bit too small. 
(6)  food coloring pastes/gels, not liquids. You can find them in the cake decorating supplies section. You’ll need at least 1 for flower colors, 1  for leaves, 1 for border color 
(7) Pipe cleaners or a little tip cleaning brush you can buy in cake decorating supply areas
(8) Flower nail (Wilton Brand) #7 or a medium sized one for making the flowers.  Yes, you need it. The smaller the tip the smaller the nail the bigger the tip the larger the nail that you need. 
(9) Cake frosting spatula. I suggest a small "offset/angled" one.   The students are having issues maneuvering the large ones on such a small cake.  Yes, you need an offset one. 
(10) Two Cake pan insulators. Wilton’s are called “Bake Even Cake Strips” (These will keep cakes   from puffing way up, in the middle, when they bake. We want a flat cake and don’t want to have to cut the cake top off and waste it.) 
(11)  (1-2) 8” round cake pans (Wilton brand are very nice with very perpendicular sides)
(12) (1-2) 6” round pans. (Wilton brand are very nice with very perpendicular sides)
 If you want to buy one of each size and bake in two different batches that’s fine.  That’s what I do sometimes. 
(13) Two 6 inch plastic separator plates and 4 pillars to go between them.  There are SOOO many different styles for these types of separator plates and pillars out there, so find ones you like and prefer to look at.  
(14) One 10 inch round cake cardboard, turntable or platter to build the 8 inch cake on.  The 6 
inch cake can be decorated on one of the two 6 inch separator plates. 
(15) Cake turntable or lazy susan if you have one.  It’s not required but sure helps!  
(16) Leaf tip #67, #70, or #352. Just something like this that makes leaves.  


FROM YOUR KITCHEN:
   Ingredients for icing and for the cake 
  (You can use your own cake recipe and icing but I have built this course using the two I gave   
  confectioners sugar for just one batch of icing (You’ll need 4-5 batches of icing for  the entire  course so please purchase a several 3 pound bags. 
  Electric mixer and beaters 
  Large mixing bowl
  Spatula to scrape the bowl
  Paper towel or kitchen towel to cover the bowl while mixing
  Wax paper/Parchment paper to pipe borders on
  Parchment paper to learn how to make pastry bags 
  Cookie sheet or cutting board to sit the wax paper or parchment on
  Toothpicks 
  Containers with lids to store and recycle icing
  Scissors 
  Sifter, sieve or whisk 
  Spoon or knife for stirring color pastes into frosting
  Butter knife or cake frosting spatula
  10 plastic straws. Preferably the bigger ones not the flimsy small ones but they do work.   
  Notebook for jotting down notes 
  Camera to take photos
  2 clips to close off the ends of the two pastry bags
  Tray or halves of a paper towel tube to park the completed flowers in to dry  
  Large ziplock back or air tight container to put the pastry bags with frosting
  Containers with lids to store and recycle icing 
  Scissors
  Oven mitts 
  Measuring cups, liquid measuring cup and measuring spoons
  Shortening (for preparing 4 pans)
  Extra cocoa powder (for preparing pans)
  Paper towel or hand towel 
  Two cooling racks
  Plastic wrap
  Foil or nice wrapping paper to cover your cardboard presenter plate if you go that route.  
  Round or square sturdy cardboard, cutting board or something to display the cake
  Scissors  
  Tape to hold the foil or paper on the back of the board
  Pencil or pen and paper 
  Tall glass as tall as your spatula 
  Coffee maker and filters or instant coffee works fine too if you want to add coffee to the recipe I      gave you. 
   An oven 
   A timer to keep the time for how long the cake will bake  
   Serrated knife or cake leveler
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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Bachelor's Degree in Music or Theatre or Arts from Bob Jones University
Nothing more rewarding, as an educator, than to see faces light up with joy after accomplishing something they thought was much too difficult to accomplish! 

Sometimes, a learner needs to be gently nudged beyond what they think they can do. Tears and frustration sometimes follow but are usually just an outburst of fear and a ploy for me to let them give up. 

Because of my years of one-on-one teaching experiences, as a teacher (and the mother of two), I feel I’ve mastered the crucial teaching finesse of helping learners through their learning fears.

As a seasoned learner and educator (and never a brick and mortar teacher) my super power is creating a fun, patient, loving and safe atmosphere for students of all ages. 

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Because of my passion for learning, home education and teaching, I committed and took the ultimate plunge and educated my own two children (son and daughter) at home from the time they were born (they were never in day care) until they both started in an early middle college. 

Early middle college is where students take a high school along with a combined schedule with real college classes all on a technical college campus.  Both started taking real college classes at age 14, both finished a bachelor degree by age 21 and graduated with honors.    

At age 16, I was hired for my first official job, at my local music store to teach private piano lessons.  I taught many students in my two years there and then I went on to earn my B.S. in Music Education.  Since then, I've taught private piano lessons over the years to folks from ages 4-84. 

For 3.5 years I was with VIPKid and  taught 5,922  one on one, twenty five minute, online, immersion English lessons to 1680 different Chinese children ages 3-16. 

For 4 semesters, I was one of around 150 elite teachers, hand picked out of over 160,000 teachers to be allowed to teach classrooms full of rural Chinese students in a live online session.  That was super fun! 

Currently, I’m a “Master” piano and voice instructor at my local Music & Arts store and at a booming dance and music studio, as well as teaching lessons in my own home.

I'm extremely busy 56 year old and in high demand, teaching all of my talents and hobbies. 

Over my life, as a curious and hard working "multipotentialite", I've definitely not been afraid to push myself constantly, at every age, to learn new and exciting things.

Classically trained pianist
Black belt in Tae-kwon-do
Adobe Photoshop artist
Seamstress
Cake decorator 

…are just some of my hobbies. 

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Thank you for enrolling in any of my courses and for all of the heart warming public feedback.  Your words keep me motivated and encouraged.   

Parents, please understand that teachers keep less than 50% of the actual listed price here on Outschool after their -30% fee on ALL of our income is taken out as well, as our self employment taxes, supplies, internet connection etc. etc. etc.

My prices are set according to the time, attention, energy, love and patience that I bring every single minute while teaching or messaging your learner. 

Learn to Love to Learn! 


Lisa O.

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Ages: 8-11

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