Sugarcraft - Cyclamen - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield

Key details

Date -
Sessions Mondays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions 5
Venue Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 12
Cost FREE - £35

About this course

This course is an intermediate guide to decorating cakes with a cyclamen sugar craft flower.  


You will learn skills and techniques using a Large Christmas Rose Cutter.   


You will produce a cyclamen to your own specification and design, to decorate and enhance any special occasion or celebration cake.  Cyclamen come in a range of colours of white, pink, purple, salmon, or red. 

By the end of the course, you will know: 

  • How to make the centre of the cyclamen 
  • How to create the petals for the cyclamen using a large Christmas rose cutter 
  • How to create a cyclamen leaf  
  • How to dust the cyclamen and the leaf to bring the flower and leaf to life 

Please bring:

  • Large Christmas rose cutter.  
  • Cyclamen leaf and veiner 
  • Squires Petal Paste (Gum 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.  
  • Wires 24 gauge  
  • Wire cutters  
  • Scissors 
  • Petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Foliage green, moss green,  white, pink, purple, salmon, or red.  
  • Cocktail sticks. 
  • Florist tape 
  • 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.
  • 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

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