Fancy Flowers, Leaves, and Basket Weave! Cake Decorating-11-15 LIVE Class
Learn to pipe 20 different flowers, 9 filler leaves, basket weave, rope border, with a patented buttercream icing in this intermediate cake decorating course.
Lisa O.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(117)
What's included
5 live meetings
7 hrs 30 mins in-class hoursHomework
1 hour per week. 🎂✨🌷✨🧁🌼✨🎂🌻✨🍃 PREPARING FOR DAY 1: You’ll need to have most of your ingredients measured out. We will be learning 2 different ways to separate eggs so if you don’t know how you’ll be able to do that during class time. You’ll need to have your butter cut up in 1 inch or so pieces and chilled. PREPARING FOR DAY 2: Choose, color and mix icing for the listed flowers and prepare your pastry bags. You can be creative as to what colors you prefer for each flower. You will probably need to change out tips and possibly clean them for the various flowers between flowers. Several dozen 3x3 inch wax paper squares PREPARING FOR DAY 3: Mix and color icing for the listed flowers and prepare your pastry bags. You can be creative as to what colors you prefer. If you are out of icing then you will need to make more before this class. PREPARING FOR DAY 4: Make more icing, if you need to. We will practice piping basket weaving and the rope border. (The color doesn’t matter to practice.) Mix three different colors of green (dark, medium and light) and fill one bag half way full. Do not mix them together in the bag. Just glop them in and leave them like that. Also, put in a glob of white into the same bag. We are looking for variegated colors in the leaves. PREPARING FOR DAY 5: Bake, level and crumb frost the cake. Make enough icing to cover the entire cake sides with basketweave, a border and a thin layer of frosting on the top. Make a plan for how you want to arrange your flowers and make more flowers, and freeze them, if you haven’t made enough. Decide how you will display your cake 🎂✨🌷✨🧁🌼✨🎂🌻✨🍃🌹🍰Assessment
We will be sharing photos and doing show and tell as we work each day.Class Experience
We’ll be starting out the course by making a patented buttercream icing (during class time) that not only looks great but withstands the heat well. There’s a bit of a fuss to it but it’s certainly worth the effort and will take up most of the first class. Each student will probably have to make 4 and possibly 5 batches of this to be able to practice all 20 flowers and 9 leaves as well as pipe the basket weaving all of the sides of the cake. So make sure you have lots of extra butter, fresh eggs and sugar on hand before the camp begins. ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Parents, please understand that teachers keep less than 50% of the list price. The Outschool fee is -30% for all income teachers make for each class on this platform. Then I have to pay my self-employment taxes, electricity, high speed internet, software subscriptions, and the time to build the courses etc. I also need to be paid for the time I spend answering messages and my energy and time to teach live classes. Effective June 2023 I’m setting all of my pricing to reflect a one to one class (no more group rate pricing) so that no one has to wait on other learners to enroll before I teach the class. Extra learners can be added and that income will help fund me so I can make more great courses. Thank you for your support! ************************************************************************************************************************************************ 🎂✨🌷✨🧁🌼✨🎂🌻✨🍃🌹🍰 WHAT WILL BE TAUGHT CLASS 1: How to make one batch of patented buttercream icing How to know what consistency you need for each part of the cake How to do several coloring techniques for realistic flowers and leaves How to prepare a parchment pastry bag How to prepare a regular pastry bag CLASS 2: Drop Flowers (any color with a #3 dot in the middle) (suggested:#55, 13, 44, 3) Apple Blossoms (light pink and/or white with 4 yellow dots in the center) ((#101 and tip #1) Primrose (there are a variety of colors for this flower) (#104, #14 and #1) Pansy (there are a variety of colors of this flower) (#104 and #1) Rose buds (any color)(#102, 103, or 104) Half roses (any color)(#102, 103, or 104) Violet (usually purple and yellow) (#59 for right handers and #101 for left handers and #1) Forget-Me-Not (blue w/ yellow, white and brown center) (#101 and #1) Sweet Pea (purple, white, pink, or red) (#102 or #104) Sunflowers (usually yellow and brown or orange/red yellow and brown) (#12, 352, #16) Daisy (white and yellow center or many other colors) (#104, 2 and 5) CLASS 3: Carnations (a variety of colors) (#103 or #104) Half carnations (a variety of colors) (#103 or #104) Rose (any color) (#102, 103, or #104) Mum (orange, yellow, red...think Fall) (#81, 5 and 1) Daffodil (white, yellow and orange) (#104, #3 and #1) Peony (white, pink and yellow and sometimes purple or red) (#104) Hydrangea (usually purple or blue) (#352) Poppy (red with black or yellow center) (#104-red, #16-yellow, #3-black) Button Flower (any color) (#16) Class 4: How to bake and prepare the cake to be decorated How to crumb frost How to smooth frost the top How to make 9 different filler leaves (three colors of green and white) (#5, 102 #233 (grass tip) How to pipe basket weave (#44, 45, 46 or 47) How to pipe a rope border (#21) Class 5: We will be piping basket weave on the side of the cake Piping a rope border for top and bottom edges Arranging flowers and leaves on the cake 🎂✨🌷✨🧁🌼✨🎂🌻✨🍃🌹
Learning Goals
The students will be able make buttercream frosting from scratch. They will be able to make 20 different flowers and 9 different filler flowers. To finish off their cake they will be able to make an even basket weave pattern, rope border and arrange flowers on a cake.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
***Your student may need assistance with using the oven while baking their cake before day 5. We will not be making a cake together during class.
***They may also need assistance while operating an electric stand or hand mixer while pouring in the hot syrup.
***You may also need to assist with measuring out ingredients properly in grams. I will not be covering this aspect in this class.
NOTE: I will be sending the icing recipe as a PDF file attached to the welcome you’ll receive from me upon registration. We will make this together during class time on the first day.
Supply List
DAY 1: CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES: All cake decorating tip numbers are for the brand “Wilton”. You can use them as reference so that you get these exact tips or even similar ones by another company since supplies may be low during this time in the world. Tips: #102, (2)#104, #1, #3, #352 #70 or #67 (for piping on even more leaves),#67 (sunflower and hydrangea) #101, #81, #5, #16, #14, #233/grass tip Drop flower tip suggestions: (there are many different types on the market to choose from) I chose a set of these four by Wilton #225, #129, #109, #190 Basket weave tip: #44, 45, 46 or 47 will work Decorators pastry bags disposable or reusable are fine. We will also be learning how to make small parchment bags Several couplers and rings are necessary, not just one. We will be interchanging the same tip with many different colors Set of paste food colors for making various leaves and flowers. Wilton 8 pack is fine. Small tip cleaning brush is very useful DAY 1: FROM YOUR KITCHEN Parchment paper Wax paper Scissors Tape Spatula Bowl Kitchen digital thermometer Kitchen scale (with metrics since the recipe is in metrics) Electric mixer and beaters Large bowl to mix the frosting in Ingredients for icing all at specified temperatures Measuring cups Toothpicks Paper towel Saucepan Water Access to the stove and freezer DAY 2: CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES NEEDED: All cake decorating tips listed for the class Pastry bags Couplers and rings Medium and large flower nails (Students do need these) DAY 2: SUPPLIES FROM YOUR KITCHEN: Parchment paper Tape Wax paper Scissors Several small bowls with lids for your different icing colors. Cookie sheet/cutting board or something to dry flowers on Wax Paper Small 3x3 inch wax paper squares. Lots of them for making flowers DAY 3: CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES NEEDED: All cake tips listed for the class Pastry bags Couplers and rings Cake Decorating Tips Small, medium and large flower nails DAY 3: SUPPLIES FROM YOUR KITCHEN: Parchment paper Tape Scissors Cookie sheet/cutting board or something to sit the flowers on Wax Paper Small 3x3 inch wax paper squares. Lots of them for making flowers DAY 4 CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES NEEDED: Three colors of green and also white in one pastry bag. Tip #102, 233, 3, 59 1 pastry bag with any color medium consistency icing for practicing basketweave and the rope border. Tips #16 or #18 for the border Specialty basket weave (Tip suggestions: #44, 45, 47 or 48) DAY 4 SUPPLIES FROM YOUR KITCHEN: Wax paper or parchment paper to practice on Cookie sheet or something to put the leaves on DAY 5 CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES Cake frosting spatula (I suggest a small "offset/angled" one. The students are having issues maneuvering the large ones on such a small cake) Pastry bag with coupler and ring Basket weave tip #44, 45, 46, or 47 will work Star tip: #18 or #21 Cake turntable or lazy susan is super helpful to have DAY 5 SUPPLIES FROM YOUR KITCHEN Toothpicks to keep flowers on the side of the cake if you want them on the side
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
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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Lisa O.Reviews
Live Group Class
$499
for 5 classes5x per week, 1 week
90 min
Completed by 11 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-15
3-13 learners per class
