The Art of Sugarcraft

The Art of Sugarcraft

3rd March 2026
7:00 pm

Location:
James O Keeffe Institute
Newmarket
Places remaining: 12
Cost: €125.00 (Plus booking fee)

There are a limited number of Free places on this course for those who wish to avail.
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Course Name:            Cake Decorating – The Art of Sugarcraft

Start Date:                 3rd March – 14th April (no class on the 17th March)

Day:                                6x Tuesday evenings on the following dates (March 3^rd, 10^th, 24^th, 31^st, April 7^th and 14^th.

Time:                           7:00pm-9:00pm

Duration:                    6 days  (2hrs), once a week

Venue:                        IRD DUHALLOW, Newmarket

Fee:                             €125 payable upon booking

Accreditation:            Cert of Attendance

 

Course Content:

• Equipment/Tools
• Recipes
• Types of icing and their uses
• Covering a cake in sugarpaste, ganache and buttercream to a professional standard
• Basic buttercream piping and border work
• An introduction to flower making
• How to add fresh flowers to a cake
• Character modelling
• How to stack and dowel a multi-tiered cake
• Introduction to colouring
• Project during the 6 weeks – decorating a themed dummy cake and cupcake toppers.
• Starting your own business
• CRO registration
• HSE registration and inspection – what to expect

 

 Items attendees will need to order in advance and bring to class:

 (All links below are from Stuff4Cakes, but can be purchased elsewhere)

 

• 7” round straight edge dummy 7″ Round Straight Edge Dummy 5″ high (stuff4cakes.ie)
• Sugarpaste 2.5kg. 5kg Renshaw ‘Just Roll With It’ – WHITE (stuff4cakes.ie)
• Or 5kg Renshaw White Covering Paste (stuff4cakes.ie) If you would prefer to buy supermarket own brand that is no problem, it isn’t quite as good but will work just fine. Tesco own is the best of the supermarket brands.
• 12” round drum board https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&path=26_44&product_id=111
• 12” round box (extra deep) – not essential, any box will do https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&path=26_288&product_id=16933
• 8” round straw board 8″ Round Silver/White Cut Edge Cards (stuff4cakes.ie)
• Modelling Paste x 2 Saracino White Modelling Paste 250g (stuff4cakes.ie)

Recommended Tools (not essential – there will be a selection of tools in class)

• Silicone rolling pin (large and small)
• Flower/Leaf Shaper Tool, also know as a Dresden Tool

https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=581

• Ball Tool

https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=580

• Straight edge smoother

https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=479

• This tool set includes some of the tools above and is very handy.

https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=13514

• Sugarcraft Knife

https://www.stuff4cakes.ie/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=583