April Classes

Fondant Cala Lilies

I am very excited to bring you new classes at a new location this month!  Look bellow for more information.

San Carlos:

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Please register at least 48 hours before the start of class.

The Wilton Method® Decorating Basics Course is the perfect place to start! You will learn the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake in a Wilton Method Course. You’ll understand how to bake a great cake, see how to make and color icing and learn the best way to ice the cake. You will also practice the three fundamentals of decorating, enabling you to approach each technique the right way for great results. Along the way, you’ll learn to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. You’ll also decorate cookies, cupcakes … and of course cakes!

Starting: Sunday, April 15, 2012

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 1:30- 3:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

In Flowers and Cake Design, you’ll explore sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life! You will learn to create breathtaking icing flowers such as pansies, lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Then, you’ll discover the secrets of arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake-top bouquet. Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive boarder treatment or basketweave design. With the skills you learn here and your ability to make flowers in advance using gum paste and fondant or royal icing, you can create beautiful blooms at your convenience, ready to place on any cake. This class is required in order to move on to the Fondant and Gumpaste Class.

*For best results, it is strongly recommended completing the Decorating Basics Course before taking Flowers & Cake Design.

Starting: Sunday, February 5, 2012

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 10:30am- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Flowers and Cake Design Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

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Sunnyvale

669 S. Bernardo Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94087

To sign up, please visit the bakery or call 408-732-8597

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Sugar Butter Flour- an award winning specialty cake shop now brings you cake decorating classes! Ranging from fundamentals to gumpaste flowers, from basic decorations to 3-D cakes, all classes are designed to give you a well-rounded knowlege of cake artistry.

This is the most thorough cake curriculum in the south bay area!

Start here:

Fundamentals of Cake Decoration

You will learn proper piping etiquette, how to pipe boarders, butter cream roses, flowers and more! Dimensional decorating (landscapes) using butter cream, writing and cake assembly will also be taught. The last class will consist of combining all of your new-learned skills together to create and decorate your own cake to take home and enjoy! This class consists of four sessions. Ages 12 and up.

Dates: Tuesday, April 17/Thursday, April 19/Tuesday, April 24/Thursday, April 26

Time: 6:00-8:30pm

Cost:$200/person (4 days – all supplies included in the classroom).

*New*

Each student will receive 6 cupcakes to decorate and take home. Students will learn how to pipe fantastic swirls out of butter cream, how to color butter cream, how to make a smooth topping of frosting and how to cover the tops of their cupcakes with fondant! Decorations such as ribbon roses with leaves, and other cute spring decorations will also be taught. Students will learn different techniques and it is a great first experience to all those who are looking into trying cake decorating. It is a class for all ages, and children under 12 are welcome with a parent.

Date: Tuesday, April 10

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Cost: 75/person, all materials included 

Please visit www.sugarbutterflour.com For more information and schedule of classes! Please register 48 hours before the start of class!

February is Sweetheart month!! What better way to put you in the mood for a little sugar than cake decorating!!!

San Carlos:

The Wilton Method® Decorating Basics Course is the perfect place to start! You will learn the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake in a Wilton Method Course. You’ll understand how to bake a great cake, see how to make and color icing and learn the best way to ice the cake. You will also practice the three fundamentals of decorating, enabling you to approach each technique the right way for great results. Along the way, you’ll learn to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. You’ll also decorate cookies, cupcakes … and of course cakes!

Starting: Sunday, February 5, 2012   ****CLASS FULL**

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 1:30- 3:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Flowers and Cake Design is one of two additional courses you can choose; the sequence doesn’t matter. In Flowers and Cake Design, you’ll explore sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life! You will learn to create breathtaking icing flowers such as pansies, lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Then, you’ll discover the secrets of arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake-top bouquet. Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive boarder treatment or basketweave design. With the skills you learn here and your ability to make flowers in advance using gum paste and fondant or royal icing, you can create beautiful blooms at your convenience, ready to place on any cake.

*For best results, it is strongly recommended completing the Decorating Basics Course before taking Flowers & Cake Design.

Starting: Sunday, February 5, 2012

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 10:30am- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Now is the time to jump into something fun and extremely rewarding!

Join the Basics Class in January, and you will be on your way to completing all the advanced course in the next two months! 

 Once you start decorating, you just can’t get enough! Now is your chance!

Here is the information for the classes in January:

San Carlos:

Decorating Basics:

Starting: Sunday, January 8, 2012

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 10:30am- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

For This Holiday

Give the Gift of “Class”!

What is more perfect than giving someone the gift of CLASS for Christmas?

Here’s how:

Purchase a Wilton Course Kit

Pay for registration

Surprise your loved one with a Wilton Cake Decorating Class in January!

• THE perfect gift for the person who has everything.

• This is the gift that keeps on giving!

• Lovely cakes for years to come.

• Awesome and fun stress-reliever.

• Sign yourself up too so you can join the fun!

E-mail the instructor for more information!

Isabel:  learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

 November Classes in San Carlos

Flowers & Cake Design

Starting: Sunday, November 6, 2011

(4 consecutive Sundays. no class on 11/27 due to thanksgiving weekend)

Time: 10:30pm- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Flowers and Cake Design Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

Please sign up at least 24 hours prior to start of class

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Classes for August:

San Carlos

Decorating Basics:

Starting: Sunday, August 7, 2011

(4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 10:30pm- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun!

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at: learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

June Classes

 After a short break, our classes are back! It is a perfect spring-time activity!

San Carlos

Decorating Basics:

Starting: Sunday, June 12, 2011

                    (4 consecutive Sundays)

Time: 10:30pm- 12:30pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun! 

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600 

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at:  learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com

Dear Students,

The third class of the series is available this month! The Flowers and Cake Design Course will teach you new techniques, icings and tools to create amazing cakes. All students who have taken the Decorating Basics Course as well as The Gumpaste and Fodant Course are able to join! Sign up soon, there are limited spaces!!!!

San Carlos

Decorating Basics:

Starting: Sunday, April 3, 2011

                    (4 consecutive Sundays, NO CLASS on 4/24)

Time: 1:00m- 3:00pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have the Decorating Basics Student Kit and supplies on the first day of class. For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

Flowers and Cake Design

                 *NEW CLASS*

Starting: April 3, 2011

                 (4 consecutive Sundays, NO CLASS 4/24)

Time: 10:00-12:00pm

Cost: $40.00 registration + student kit (available at Diddams Party Store)

*You must have Flowers and Cake Design Student kit AND supplies on first day of class.For a complete list of materials please see “Course Reminders” page.

 All students must have taken Decorating Basics Course before taking Gum Paste and Fondant Course.

 Please arrive on time! Class will start promptly at the time specified. If you are late, you will have to catch up, and that’s just not fun! 

DIDDAMS Party Store:

700 Laurel Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070

To sign up, please visit or call DIDDAMS Party Store at: (650) 802- 0600 

For questions, please e-mail the instructor at:  learn.cakedeco@yahoo.com