Christmas Cupcake Toppers - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield

Date	5 November - 3 December 2024
Sessions	Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £35

About this course

This course is a beginners guide to decorating Christmas cupcake toppers.

You will learn skills and techniques using modelling paste to create a cupcake snowman, polar bear, Christmas elf, Christmas pudding, and Christmas wreath to enhance a cupcake.

By the end of the course, you will have produced a selection of Christmas toppers to your own specification, that can be used to decorate and enhance any special occasion or celebration cupcakes.

Toppers will include:

• How to make a snowman

• How to make a polar bear

• How to make a Christmas elf

• How to make Christmas pudding

• How to make a Christmas wreath

Resources required:

Cupcakes, buttercream, piping nozzle of choice and piping bag (Optional)
Circle cutter to cover a cupcake.
Ready to roll icing and sugar florist paste or modelling 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.
Craft knife
Gel colours and petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Blue, green, red, brown, yellow, pink, peach, orange, flesh colour for the face, black
Cocktail sticks
Scissors
Note pad and pen.

Booking your place and fee information

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 further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: