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Cake Decorating is a wonderful and exciting past time creating works of art with icing, sugar paste and many different accessories

Popularity
This is a very popular past time with people learning to perfect the art of cake decorating for personal or professional use.

Location
There are many evening courses run at school and colleges and full time day courses, cake decorating is so versatile it can be carried out in the home.

Age
Many young children start cake decorating with their parents by decorating fairy cakes with silver balls and icing, there is no upper age limit.

Ability
You do not need any special abilities or licences to start cake decorating though if you wish to follow this eventually as profession or even to teach a class yourself you will require the current health and hygiene certificate.

Description
Cake Decorating is a fun and versatile interest with so many different styles to learn, from actually icing the cake to making decorations with sugar paste, fondant, marzipan etc there are accessories now available such as edible glitter, icing pens, dusting powders, purpose made accessories and decorations such as ornaments and flower wires, cake decorating is creating something fun and novel right through to exquisite occasions cakes. Learn at a class or experiment by yourself at home.

Dedication
Cake decorating is what you want it to be from creating a simple cake for a child's party through to 3D novelty cakes and beautiful wedding cakes etc, make your own icing such as Royal, Fondant and Sugar Paste or buy ready made, you choose at what level you wish to learn, maybe you have a natural flair and just wish to experiment at home with many of the accessories on the market today.

Potential
Have fun creating art with food, for pleasure or professional benefit, through out the U.K and the world there are also many competitions to compete in for prizes and trophies.

Closely Related Activities
Cake Making.

Cost
Costs start from a few ???'s and rise depending on your project, look through HIPS Finder? to find a course or club near you for up to date fees.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

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Learning

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