Sugar Craft - Fondant Fruit - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

About this course

This course is an beginners guide to learn about how to model a strawberry and fruit from fondant.   

You will learn skills and techniques to shape the fondant into a strawberry, lemon, orange, apple, peach, pear, grapes, and banana.   

This course is suitable for all, no matter what your experience is.  Each week, we will make a variety of different fruit from fondant icing that can be used to decorate and enhance cakes and muffins.

Resources required:

• Board 
• Corn flour 
• Edible glue or cool boiled water 
• Knife  
• Rolling pin  
• Ball tool  
• Dresden tool or cocktail stick 
• Fondant icing with sugar florist paste mixed equal parts or modelling paste. 
• Brushes 
• Zest grater.  
• Cloves 
• Caraway or fennel seeds 
• Petit four cases 
• Colours: Green , yellow, red, orange, peach, purple, brown, Blush dusting powder.  
• Pale yellow royal icing for the strawberry 
• Daisy plunge cutter- Calyx 
• Apron  
• Something to carry home in 
• 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:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Any questions?

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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