You will learn non-standard décor techniques, which will help you boost your skills and enter a new market segment for your cake business, leaving your competitors behind.

Prepare for something new

Unique
Unusual
Spectacular
Stylish
Impressive

In the course program

4 impressive cakes and more than 12 techniques

Lesson 1. Emerald with peony

• Rice paper sail creation.
• Wafer paper flower: work with stencils and veiner, creating petal shapes, natural looking petal coloring technique, assembling flowers without floral wire.
• Creating texture on cakes using cake stencils and cream.
• Different textures using ganache: splash, stains, antique effect.

• Décor using dried flowers: recommendations on choosing flowers and a guide on how to use them on a cake.
• Creating texture on a cake using cake stencils and cream.
• Different textures using ganache: splash, stains, effect of antique.

Lesson 2. Boho-chik style

Lesson 3. Flowers and concrete

• Wafer paper flowers: a quick and easy technique on creating fantasy flowers, guide on making petals look natural in color and shape without using any additional inventory.
• Work with fondant and gum paste: creating texture and different color effects, recommendations on how to cover a cake and cake dummies with fondant.
• Work with flower silicone molds.
• Learn an all-purpose technique creating textured marble in any color scheme.

Lesson 4. Cracked marble

• Work with fondant and gum paste: creating stone/tree bark texture with a Craquelure effect, creating a natural color transition.
• Creating unique textures using the cream: marble, stone, concrete. Learning how to use buttercream.
• Creating cracks and additional textures.
• Work with flower silicone molds.

In every lesson you will find recommendations on the
inventory, ingredients and color schemes which will help to achieve the best results.

Course tutor

Alina Makarova

Alina is a patisserie chef from Russia with more than 5 years of teaching experience. She learned from the top world patisserie chefs and is now ready to share her knowledge with her students.

In 2019 Alina opened a patisserie shop, 'Tartine', which in a half a year became a leader in the premium market segment in Sochi, Russia.