CA 1500 - Professional Cake Decorating

3 Credit(s) Hours: 5 hrs. (1 hr. lecture, 4 hrs. lab/field)

This course offers an introduction to different techniques of cake decorating. They will learn how to bake, fill and ice a cake using a variety of specialty frostings. Basic and advanced piping techniques, royal icing flowers, brush embroidery, color flow, extension work, lace, marzipan and chocolate modeling skills, classical drapery, gumpaste flowers and more. A wedding cake workshop will provide students with the basic concepts for operating a cake business such as pricing, customer consultation, cake portions and design.

Prerequisite(s): Open only to Culinary Arts Majors. CA 1100
Department: Tourism and Hospitality