Course Structure

8-Week Cake Design & Sugar Modelling Course

Develop your sugar-modelling skills over eight weeks while creating a range of fun and detailed cake toppers. Each week focuses on a different character or theme, helping you build confidence in modelling faces, figures, clothing, hair and decorative details.

What you’ll create:

Week 1 – Bride: Learn how to model a complete bride figure, including the body, arms, face and hair.
Week 2 – Groom: Create a groom figure and continue developing your character-modelling techniques.
Week 3 – Mermaid: Model a mermaid complete with face, hair, body, arms and decorative shell details.
Week 4 – Baby Boy: Create a baby figure with arms, legs, facial features and a miniature teddy bear.
Week 5 – Halloween: Make a pumpkin and a cute witch cake topper – perfect for a Halloween-themed cake.
Week 6 – Winter Girl: Model a winter character, focusing on body shape, hands, facial features, hair and seasonal clothing.
Week 7 – Winter Boy: Create a coordinating winter boy figure while practising character proportions and fine details.
Week 8 – Santa & Snowman: Finish the course by modelling festive Santa and snowman toppers for a Christmas cake.

Throughout the course, students will work mainly with sugar paste, food colouring and modelling supports, learning a variety of techniques that can be adapted for celebration cakes and personalised toppers.