Decorating and making cakes...

[parker1313]

I would like to look into learning to make and decorate cakes.
Iv called my local college and they have stopped doing leisure courses.
I then discovered that the council dont have anything either.
How can I get to do this?

Do you mean baking as well as piping, sugarcraft and decorating?

You can bake a cake very easily just by following a recipe but you would need more practice with the decorating bit. Is there a sugarcraft and cake decorating shop near you? Perhaps you could ask them, they may run courses if they are a big business or know where you can join one.

I have a couple of simple to follow books I've been learning from. Have a look in your local library for some beginner type books with simpler cakes in them.

Shops are good places to learn, the closest to me is an hour and a half away but it was worth going there on the bus to see how to actually make an orchid I wanted to try out myself. The one near me doesn't run courses but told me about an adult edcation course run by our local college rather than council. Obviously that bit doesn't help you, but they might be able to put you onto something you could do.

MN has been a great learning resource for me over the past year too, with my millions of cookery/cakey questions. & cakecentral.com is a forum I've been using as well, you can find out pretty much anything on there. Might be worth signing up (it's an American forum but there's some UK users & they might be able to help you find a course if that's what you want, that's near you)

Personally, I've found books & practise the best way of learning about cakes, but people learn in different ways

This is great thankyou.Im off to the library today

I have just been & asked about courses on the market & the lady there said that the next big town on from us has a college which runs a beginners course. Would it be worth maybe looking a little bit out of your local area? Unless it's hours away, of course

Did you find anything useful in the library?

Didnt get to the library in the end up did get advised to call the local cake shop and they hold courses!!
Iv put my name down and she said it wont be long to start.
Its expensive though!
£10 for an hour and a half and its 6 sessions.Have to pay for all 6 up front.

I think they're all quite expensive tbh. I've been looking at 2, one at my local college is £370something for each year of a 3 year course & the one at the college in the nearest big town is £250 for a 20 week course. They're only 3 hours on a Monday evening though, whichever course I chose to do.

Don't forget to account for any equipment/supplies you might need along the way as well. It can turn out to be quite a costly hobby . . . . as I'm finding out now! But it's niceto be able to have a bit of time to myself, even if it is only in my own kitchen

Are you going to have a look in your local library still?

I think I will as we are not in a position to pay out like that.

I am self taught through books mainly, although I spend time "researching" online too. AM hoping to do some courses at Franham college next year once ds is at school.

Look on amazon, there are a load of good books.

Farnham