Community Education Lewisham - Flowers 'n' basket cakes

The Students and Community Education Lewisham, south London created a number of cakes using the basketweave technique adding flowers, crimping and leaves to their creations. Students also learned how to pipe simple words in royal icing.

Royal Icing and Piping at SCOLA

The learners above on the Royal Icing and Piping course learned the art of piping and writing in Royal Icing, brush embroidery and piping flowers on cupcakes.  We all had a great time and the results at all levels were impressive.

Some good news...

A few months ago I was approached by an Italian patisserie magazine, Pasticceria Internazionale,  to use one of my cake images for an article on royal icing and decorating techniques.  They selected my run out teddy bear picture (no. 8) as well as other images from other contributors.  I had forgotten about the request until I received a copy of the article that was published in February this year so I thought I'd share it with you below.

And yes...the  article is written in Italian.

[Click on the article image to enlarge.]

Royal Icing and Piping - SCOLA Wallington Style!

My second class of Royal Icing and piping located at SCOLA Wallington also made runouts and worked extensively with royal icing.

SCOLA - SUTTON Royal Icing and Piping Course

Working with royal icing requires practice and patience as my learners soon found out, none of the students had worked so intensively with royal icing before.  Our project was to coat a cake in royal icing and produce a run out design, decorate using border piping scroll techniques, and pipe letters freehand, all the learners rose to the challenge with pretty impressive results.

Nan's 75th Birthday Cake

Rosie made this cake utilising the techniques she learned at CALAT. She decorated the 75th birthday cake with delicate piped royal icing roses and the numbers appear to be made with run-out icing, a technically sound effort. The result is impressive - Well done!!

Piped Flowers in Royal Icing

Using petal and leaf nozzles students were required to produce toppers for cupcakes and the results are simply amazing. The flowers piped were Blossoms, Roses, Sweet Peas and Fantasy Flowers.  Again, as with any technique, perfection comes with time and practice...

These designs can also be replicated with buttercream.

And there's more...