Instructor: Kathleen Lange
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM-5PM, Tues-Wed, February19-20, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Kathleen Lange, Cake Design Artist from Confectionary Chalet, Alpine, CA will be teaching the Old-World Joseph Lambeth Method, while modernizing the method with her own techniques and designs.

Class Description/Syllabus

Prerequisite: Intro Lambeth Boot Camp 101/201 - 2 Day Crash Course (or) Lambeth Boot Camp 101 & 201 - 4 Day Course.

This is amazing "NEW" class; for all previous Boot Camp 101 & 201 Survivors! Lambeth English over-piping has become even more POPULAR, since Kathleen has brought back popularity in this method and modernized the style of English overpiping. If you completed Kathleen prior classes; you know she has shown some of the borders for the original styles Lambeth made popular with his book. Kathleen will now be showing even more advance border styles while adding her own flair, yet again.

Don't Miss out! Join Kathleen's popular Lambeth Boot Camp; she has become very known throughout the United States and other countries for her knowledge, teaching style and famous Boot Camp's.

During the 2-4 day Lambeth Boot Camp 301 & 401, Kathleen will be teaching the Old-World Joseph Lambeth Method, while modernizing with her own techniques. Students will be increasing their knowledge, learning more advance techniques each day. A project type cake will be completed during this four day boot camp. Students will be working with special royal icing recipes, provided by Kathleen.

Students attending Lambeth 301 & 401 will be learning the following:

• How to hold the bag and tips properly, to be exact with every squeeze of their decorating bag
• How to master the Cushion border applied to your cakes
• Continue adding dimensional work, below cushion and elevated scrolls
• Learn to make elevated scrolls, figure piping birds & swans
• Side Scroll Embellishing and more advanced overpiping techniques
• How to pipe advanced stringwork and lace pieces
• All of which will be added to their cakes!

Each student will continue to learn more advanced dimensional work with more of the "Awe Factor," known as the Lambeth style is known for in Competitions; learning six to eight different borders/ designs or more - full completion of everything taught during the class time will depend on your speed and prior decorating experience. Students may not complete everything, they will have a chance to try everything and learn the proper techniques and methods for creating their own designs.

Note: Sign up for both Lambeth 301 and 401 for just $600. Discount applied at checkout.

Instructor: Kathleen Lange
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM-5PM, Thurs-Fri, February 21-22, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Kathleen Lange, Cake Design Artist from Confectionary Chalet, Alpine, CA will be teaching the Old-World Joseph Lambeth Method, while modernizing the method with her own techniques and designs.

Class Description/Syllabus

Prerequisite: Intro Lambeth Boot Camp 101/201 - 2 Day Crash Course (or) Lambeth Boot Camp 101 & 201 - 4 Day Course.

This is amazing "NEW" class; for all previous Boot Camp 101 & 201 Survivors! Lambeth English over-piping has become even more POPULAR, since Kathleen has brought back popularity in this method and modernized the style of English overpiping. If you completed Kathleen prior classes; you know she has shown some of the borders for the original styles Lambeth made popular with his book. Kathleen will now be showing even more advance border styles while adding her own flair, yet again.

Don't Miss out! Join Kathleen's popular Lambeth Boot Camp; she has become very known throughout the United States and other countries for her knowledge, teaching style and famous Boot Camp's.

During the 2-4 day Lambeth Boot Camp 301 & 401, Kathleen will be teaching the Old-World Joseph Lambeth Method, while modernizing with her own techniques. Students will be increasing their knowledge, learning more advance techniques each day. A project type cake will be completed during this four day boot camp. Students will be working with special royal icing recipes, provided by Kathleen.

Students attending Lambeth 301 & 401 will be learning the following:

• How to hold the bag and tips properly, to be exact with every squeeze of their decorating bag
• How to master the Cushion border applied to your cakes
• Continue adding dimensional work, below cushion and elevated scrolls
• Learn to make elevated scrolls, figure piping birds & swans
• Side Scroll Embellishing and more advanced overpiping techniques
• How to pipe advanced stringwork and lace pieces
• All of which will be added to their cakes!

Each student will continue to learn more advanced dimensional work with more of the "Awe Factor," known as the Lambeth style is known for in Competitions; learning six to eight different borders/ designs or more - full completion of everything taught during the class time will depend on your speed and prior decorating experience. Students may not complete everything, they will have a chance to try everything and learn the proper techniques and methods for creating their own designs.

Note: Sign up for both Lambeth 301 and 401 for just $600. Discount applied at checkout.

Instructor: Mike McCarey
Location: That Takes the Cake Host Hotel
Date: 9AM - 5:30PM, Monday, Feb 25, 2013
Supply List: All Included

In this one day class, Mike McCarey will teach you how to support and finish your own UT Tower cake. Students will use styrofoam and modeling chocolate to make this very accurate, to scale Texas landmark.Mike has decided to create this cake in styrofoam so you'll be able to keep it as show piece.

As part of this class, students will receive a set of custom made impression mats that they will use in class to produce the finer architectural details of the tower. They will also receive a step-by-step photo manual for how the tower goes together.

Instructor: Lauren Kitchens
Location: Classroom at Make It Sweet
Date: 9AM-5:30PM, Tues & Wed, Feb 26 & 27
Supply List: All Included

Fast, Easy, & Unbelievably Real

Lauren will teach you how to create a life-sized football helmet cake with accuracy and finesse, so true to life that one would think it's a real helmet.

You will work with the finest modeling chocolate, Swiss-imported fondant, butter cream icing, and REAL cake. Airbrushing will also be taught along with learning to create and use sculpting templates and edible images. And you will learn how to make that pesky facemask the right way!

Your class booklet will include a step-by-step photo diary of the entire sculpting process and all the recourse material you would ever need to recreate this cake again and again.

Note: This class is limited to 10 students so don't wait to register or you may miss out.

Instructor: Nicholas Lodge
Location: That Takes the Cake Host Hotel
Date: 9AM - 5:30PM, Monday, Feb 25 & 26, 2013
Supply List: All Included

During this informative 2-day class you will learn from a Master, the art of making life-like flower. This class will focus on the New Trends in flowers for 2013. The flowers that will be created are:

• Alstomeria
• Bouvardia
• Anenome
• Ranunculus
• Amaryllis
• Freesia

The class will also include the appropriate buds and leaves. It is sure to be a great class you won't want to miss! Includes class certificate and all items needed to participate during the class! Tools, cutters, etc will be available for sale after the class.

Instructor: Mary Jo Dowling
Location: That Takes the Cake Host Hotel
Date: 9AM - 5PM, Mon & Tues, Feb. 25 & 26, 2013
Supply List: All Included

Who was Nirvana and how have we adapted his techniques into a general recognizable style? From drafting the patterns, to finessing the royal icings you will learn the basics of this style and the history behind it. During this 2 day class you will complete a romantic cake consisting of collars and side panels that embody the basic elements of the Nirvana style. Pattern making will be covered in both the traditional method and also drafting on the computer using basic drawing programs. Royal icing linework and runout work will be covered in detail.

Instructor: Lauren Kitchens
Location: Make it Sweet
Date: 9AM-12, Monday, February 25
Supply List: All Included

Think you can't make human eyes? Think again! In this fun class, Lauren will guide you through the process of sculpting a human eye. She will also show how many different styles of eyes can be rendered from this single technique. From a child, to a woman, to an older man, this class will take the fear out of this intimidating task. Each student will leave with a completed "woman's" eye as well as a complete class booklet with recipes, visual and verbal step-by-step instructions, and reference materials of different eye styles. See you there!

Intermediate to Advanced

(If you can stack a tiered cake, you are intermediate)

Instructor: Lauren Kitchens
Location: Make it Sweet
Date: 2-4PM Monday, February 25,
Supply List: View

Take the dread out of stripes by learning three different ways to create them on cakes. From candy-style, to ombre-stripes and even Seuss-inspired stripes, Lauren will show you step-by-step how she creates these popular designs with ease and speed. Modeling chocolate and fondant will be used with simple cake tools to create show-stopping stripes! Each student will recieve a class book with recipes and step-by-step visual and verbal instructions for each striping technique.

Beginner to Advanced welcome.

Instructor: Marina Sousa
Location: That Takes the Cake Host Hotel
Date: 9AM - 5PM, Mon &Tues, Feb 25 & 26
Supply List: All Included

Current fashion trends are an endless source of inspiration for cakes and we'll zero in on the glittery accessories that will make your cakes simply sparkle! We will explore the various techniques and mediums available to translate top trends into flowing fabric like haute couture confections!

We will work with fondant, gumpaste, royal icing, white chocolate, isomalt, sugar pearls, luster dusts & my favorite shimmering disco dusts! Techniques will include draping, embossing, in-laid design modern bows & knots, piping & hand painting. Students will leave with a dazzling tiered cake and the knowledge to create countless variations using the techniques demonstrated.