Education

Total Hours of Cake Decorating Instruction:

30.25

It occurred to me that I should keep track of my official cake decorating education.  This post will be updated whenever I take a class by a professional cake decorating instructor.

SHOWS / EVENTS / DEMONSTRATIONS

Capital Confectioner's "Day of Sharing" 2010
Location: Wyndham Hotel & Conference Center in Round Rock, TX
Time: Sunday, August 6th, 2010, 8 AM - 5 PM
Total Hours: 5
Description:

• Brian Stevens - 3D structure and airbrushing
• Ximena Sempertegui - fondant christening gown
• Marco Antonio Lopez Sanches - stenciling and flowers
• Stephen Benison - unique cutters

That Takes The Cake 2011
Capital Confectioners' 7th Annual Art Show & Cake Competition
Celebrity Guest Demonstrations 
Location: North Austin Event Center, Austin, TX
Time: Sunday, February 27th, 2011 9 AM - 2 AM
Total Hours: 3.75
Instructors/Description:

• Lorraine McKay - modeling cute cartoony frog from fondant
• James Rousselle - cutting, wiring, and decorating 3 different flowers
• Mike McCarey - sculpting a dog cake with dowels and boards
• Marina Sousa - making jewels and beads with Isomalt
• Susan Carberry - sculpting a mushroom cake using PVC piping as internal structure

Capital Confectioner's "Day of Sharing" 2011
Location: Wyndham Hotel & Conference Center in Round Rock, TX
Time: Sunday, July 10, 2011 8 AM - 5 PM
Total Hours: 5
Description:

• Ashlee Trotter
  
• jungle cupcake toppers
• Kimberly Chapman
• advanced gummy techniques
• Janet Rosebeary
• bride/groom paper dolls
• Ruth Rickey
• safari sugar babies
• Roxanne Moore
• sexy shoes

CLASSES

Wilton Course 3: Fondant and Tiered Cakes
Location: Hobby Lobby on FM 1431, Cedar Park, TX
Instructor: Dolly Farnsworth
Time: Saturdays 9/5/09 - 9/26/09, 1 PM - 3 PM
(only attended 9/5 and 9/12 due to illness and work)
Total Hours: 4
Description: (from Wilton website)

Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in Course 3. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant — for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a towering tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.

Chocolate Clay Basket
Location: All In One Bake Shop, Austin, TX
Instructor: Sallia Bandy
Time: Tuesday 3/30/10, 6 PM - 9 PM
Total Hours: 3
Description: Learned how to make and work with modeling chocolate.  Created an Easter basket using chocolate, modeling chocolate, and lollipop sticks.

Cake Balls
Location: Whole Foods Culinary Center, Austin, TX
Instructor: Stacy Bridges
Time: Saturday, 12/04/2010, 10 AM - 11 AM
Total Hours: 1
Description: Learned how to make cake balls a la Austin Cake Ball.

Petit Fours
Location: Central Market, Austin, TX
Instructor: Laurie Mathers
Time: Saturday, 2/05/2011, 10 AM - 1 AM
Total Hours: 2.5ish
Description: Learned how to make cream cheese pound cake, cut, fill with buttercream and jam, dip them in candy coating, and decorate with royal icing.

Crazy Pizza Cakes
Location: All In One Bake Shop
Instructor: Brian Stevens
Time: Sunday, 8/14/2011, 9 AM - 5 PM
Total Hours: 6ish
Description: Covering a pizza shaped cake with fondant, decorating with fondant, color theory, airbrushing techniques, and of course, blow torches!