Cake Decorating

Just Clowning Around (Cupcake Decorating Class)
Learn to decorate cupcakes that look like clowns. Return home with edible samples of colorful clowns for the family or your next celebration as well as some cake decorating tips and tricks. Use the icing, candy, pastry bag and tools provided in class. Bring your own cupcakes or small frosted cake and container, plus aprons and hair-cover. Other supplies provided by instructor for a fee of $7-10 (for one or two people) payable at class. Children may attend with parents, but each child must register and pay in advance. Instructor Theresa Obert. Theresa Obert is a former academic teacher who has been teaching cake decorating in lower Fairfield County for several years just for fun. She has worked in various creative arts with people of all ages from pre-schoolers to senior citizens.
Please call (203) 431-9995 for Fall 2010 dates.

Cake Decorating for Beginners
Learn how to decorate cakes that look great. Possible cakes to decorate include a bakery style cake, a colorful character cake, a patchwork sheet cake, a doll cake, and cupcakes. Using a pastry bag, learn how to make stars, borders, ruffles, basket weave, flower garden and more. After the first instruction session, students will bring a baked cake each week to decorate in class with icing prepared at home. Have fun. Supply list provided at first class. Class limit 12. Taught by Theresa Obert. Theresa Obert is a former academic teacher who has been teaching cake decorating in lower Fairfield County for several years just for fun. She has worked in various creative arts with people of all ages from pre-schoolers to senior citizens.
Please call (203) 431-9995 for Fall 2010 dates.

Session 1: Demonstration of Tools & Techniques
Receive and review recipes and the list of supplies and the best way to use the tools of the trade to learn that cake decorating can be easy.

Session 2: Bakery Style Cake
Learn how to fill a cake successfully and make borders to look like your cake came from a bakery.

Sessions 3 & 4: Two of the Four Below

Character Cake - The easiset and most colorful cake you will ever make for children and adults is a cake using a specially shaped pan and stars, starts, stars.
Sheet Cake - The sheet cake becomes a pretty picture, a patchwork quilt or whimsical enterprise. Cookie cutters make the process even easier.
Doll Cake - Make a cake in a bowl that becomes a beautiful edible skirt for a fashion doll. Practice borders, flowers, and more.
Cupcakes - Experiment with dozens of ideas to make your cupcakes unique. Make clowns, animals, goofy designs, or an elegant motif using the pastry bag and tips plus candies.

Baking Bread

Baking Bread, the Old-Fashioned Way
Throw out that bread-making machine! Nothing tastes as good as hand-made, home-made bread, mixed from scratch and baked in an oven. You’ll get some exercise (kneading) as well as two fresh-baked round loaves of old-fashioned peasant bread from this two-hour class. You’ll learn the theory and practice of making yeast breads from scratch, and receive many tips and hand-outs. We will also describe how to make variations of the crusty and now-famous Mark Bitman “no knead” bread. Bring your own flour (bread flour recommended), a big mixing bowl, and a heavy duty wooden mixing spoon or spatula. Yeast, salt, sugar, and baking pans will be supplied; a $4 supplies fee will be payable to the teacher. Limit 8 per class. Instructor Jack Sanders has been baking bread for fun for many years.
Please call (203) 431-9995 for Fall 2010 dates.