Sugarcraft - Snowdrops - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield

Date	7 January - 4 February 2025
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 an intermediate guide to decorating cakes with a snow drop sugar craft flower.

You will learn skills and techniques using a snow drop cutter. Some previous skills and knowledge required.

You will learn new skills to make a snowdrop to enhance any special occasion or celebration cake.

By the end of the course, you will know:

• How to make the centre of the snowdrop- taping stamens to a 30-gauge wire.

• How to create the Mexican hat.

• How to create the centre of the snowdrop to form the throat of the snowdrop.

• How to thread the wired stamens through the snowdrop, ready to attach the next layer of petals adding dust and colour to the inside and outside at the base of the petals.

Resources required by attendees:

Squires Petal Paste (Gum paste) White
Snowdrop cutter.
Small stamens
Board
Mexican hat 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 30 gauge
Wire cutters
Scissors
Trex
Petal dusting powder: yellow, holly/ ivy green for the sheaths, snowflake
Cocktail sticks.
Container to transport home
Polystyrene or oasis with drawing straws inserted.
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: