Sugarcraft - Cyclamen - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 6 January - 3 February 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 an intermediate guide to decorating cakes with a cyclamen sugar craft flower.

You will learn skills and techniques using a Large Christmas Rose Cutter.

You will produce a cyclamen to your own specification and design, to decorate and enhance any special occasion or celebration cake. Cyclamen come in a range of colours of white, pink, purple, salmon, or red.

By the end of the course, you will know:

• How to make the centre of the cyclamen
• How to create the petals for the cyclamen using a large Christmas rose cutter
• How to create a cyclamen leaf
• How to dust the cyclamen and the leaf to bring the flower and leaf to life

Please bring:

• Large Christmas rose cutter.
• Cyclamen leaf and veiner
• Squires Petal Paste (Gum paste)
• Board
• Rolling Pin
• Corn flour for dusting
• Edible glue
• Paintbrushes for glue and dusting
• PME Foam cell pad
• Modelling tools: dresden tool, ball tool.
• Wires 24 gauge
• Wire cutters
• Scissors
• Petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Foliage green, moss green, white, pink, purple, salmon, or red.
• Cocktail sticks.
• Florist tape
• Note pad and pen.

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

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• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
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