Sugar Craft - Sunflowers - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 24 February - 24 March 2025
• Sessions: Mondays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 5
• Venue: Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £35

This course is a beginner’s course designed to introduce learners to Sunflower sugar craft flowers. You will produce a sunflower to enhance any special occasion cake with step-by-step instructions.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Produce the petals for the Sunflower adding texture and realism
• Produce the centre for the Sunflower
• Learn how to dust the flower to add dimension

You will produce a Sunflower to enhance any special occasion or celebration cake.

You will need

• Florist sugar paste by squires- white
• Corn flour dapper
• Rolling pin
• Dahlia cutter
• Round scone cutter
• 24-gauge wire
• Foam mat- Foam cell pad.
• Multi-purpose veiner
• Floral tape
• Ball tool
• Dresden tool
• Tweezer
• Scissors
• Green dusting powder
• Egg yellow dusting powder
• Tangerine orange dusting powder
• Black dusting powder
• Chocolate brown dusting powder
• Edible tints- brown, and yellow
• Edible glue
• Cocktail stick.
• 2 or 3 size plain piping nozzle.
• Note pad and pen.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

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