Wedding Cake course 5 days

40 hours - 5 days

Duration: 40h (5d)  -  Price: 1350€  -  Level: all levels  -  Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne  -  Type: professional course

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Prerequisites

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Financing

This course cannot be financed by your Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF). If you wish to use your CPF, we suggest the following training courses which include this course:

• Design and create tiered or sculpted cakes (Cake Design) - The essentials - 85h (10d)
• Design and create tiered or sculpted cakes (Cake Design) - Advanced course - 160h (20d)

Our professional training courses can be financed by all funding organizations (France Travail, Regional Councils, OPCO, FAFCEA, etc.). Please contact the organization you depend on to find out about the financing terms and conditions.

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Program

During this workshop you will fully make a 3-tiered Wedding Cake from baking to decoration.

Content of the workshop:

Day 1:

Theory:

• Creams and biscuits adapted to cakes decorated with sugar paste.

Practice:

• Making 3 different biscuits.
• Creation of 3 different fillings.
• Filling of the cakes.

Day 2:

Theory:

• Chocolate ganache and other alternatives how to smooth a cake perfectly.

Practice:

• Smoothing cakes in a perfect way.

Day 3:

Theory:

• Everything you need to know about sugar paste: causes of cracks, blisters, etc...
• Learn how to color and spread sugar paste evenly and without bubbles.

Practice:

• Coloring the sugar paste.
• Covering cakes with a right angle.
• Decorating techniques.

Day 4 and 5:

Theory:

• Techniques to make a stable structure without risk for transportation.

Practice:

• Assembly and decoration of the pièce montée.

During this training you could use the following techniques: food lace, all types of drapes, ruffles, bows, food printing, painting (except airbrush), textures, moldings, simple flowers without wire.

The following techniques will not be covered: piping (royal icing), wire flowers, airbrushing, modeling, cake sculpting.

The design of your Wedding Cake is not imposed, you can let your imagination run free provided that it corresponds to the skills to be acquired during this training.

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Information

The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.

The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.

A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.

All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.

Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour of each day is devoted to cleaning the laboratory.

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Next sessions

• From 20/01/25 to 24/01/25 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (1350€) Register / Quote
• From 09/06/25 to 13/06/25 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (1350€) Register / Quote

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Photos of this course*

* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.