Cartoon or comic cakes are grabbing everyones attention - Lets explore this fun cake decorating trend together along with a few other contemporary styles.This new and exciting course offer is aimed at anyone with a passion for cake decorating.You will start by learning how to coat a cake properly using different mediums such as buttercream, sugar paste (fondant), ganache and royal icing. This is a good start for beginners and an excellent opportunity for experienced cake decorators to refresh skills.Your first project will be the Cartoon/Comic cake currently taking the cake decorating world by storm. These are a contemporary style of whimsical cake that are decorated to look like cartoons, they are incredibly fun to re-create. In the future weeks, we will look at ganache cakes (achieving those sharp sides), then we decorate fondant cakes.Week by week, you will develop your skill in contemporary styles of decorating understanding the principles of colour and texture to achieve that professional and smooth finish. This will include piping a variety of floral decorations to top-off your various cakes, you will be making various eye-catching toppers.The aims of this course will be to build your confidence, learn new and tried and trusted techniques and of course have fun!