Instructor: Kathleen Lange
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM-5PM, Tues-Wed, 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.

Lambeth Method 101 Boot Camp will begin your training with the basic skills required to do Lambeth work. The Lambeth Method, and English method, is one of the most distinguished forms of cake decorating in the world and has been used since the late 1800's. The exacting nature of this intricate 3 dimensional over-piping and other Lambeth Method techniques provides the ultimate challenge for even the most dedicated cake design artist.

Students attending 101, 201 or both will be learning:

• to be exact with every squeeze of their decorating bag
• how to hold the bag and tips properly
• how to master the perfect zigzag shell, scroll, swag and puffs borders
• 3 dimensional over-piping techniques
• stringwork
• pearl borders
• how to apply stringwork
• how to make a ring border with trellis
• lattice cushion work
• lace work - all of which will be added to their cakes!

Instructor: Kathleen Lange
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM-5PM, Thurs-Fri, February 23-24, 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.

Lambeth Method 201 Boot Camp will feature advanced techniques based upon the work of Joseph Lambeth and will build upon skill learned in the 101 class. The Lambeth Method, and English method, is one of the most distinguished forms of cake decorating in the world and has been used since the late 1800's. The exacting nature of this intricate 3 dimensional over-piping and other Lambeth Method techniques provides the ultimate challenge for even the most dedicated cake design artist.

Students attending 101, 201 or both will be learning:

• to be exact with every squeeze of their decorating bag
• how to hold the bag and tips properly
• how to master the perfect zigzag shell, scroll, swag and puffs borders
• 3 dimensional over-piping techniques
• stringwork
• pearl borders
• how to apply stringwork
• how to make a ring border with trellis
• lattice cushion work
• lace work - all of which will be added to their cakes!

Instructor: Kaysie Lackey
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9:00AM - 6PM, Thurs-Fri, Feb. 23-24, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Kaysie Lackey is a Food Network Champion and acclaimed sugar artist. Graduating from Belmont University with multiple degrees in the fine arts, Kaysie found her ideal medium in cake. Only a few months after opening her signature bakery "The People's Cake" in Seattle, WA, she won her first two consecutive Food Network Challenges, "Extreme Villain Cakes" and "Paranormal Cakes". With her elegant yet whimsical style she is constantly pushing the envelope of what cake can do, and she is teaching students across the country and the world how she makes her sweet creations come to life.

• How to create a 3-Dimensional character support armature
• Advanced cake carving and fondant application techniques
• Advanced modeling chocolate application and integration
• How to bring out expressive details to breathe life into your character
• Students will take their character home including the reusable armature

Is this class right for me?

This class is ideal for experienced/professional decorators, however, a novice with a basic understanding of piping, cake leveling, filling, stacking, crumb coating, and rolling and applying fondant and modeling chocolate will be able to participate. If you have never worked with fondant or modeling chocolate before, this class is not recommended.

Instructor: Mike McCarey
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 8:00-12PM, Monday, February 27, 2012
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Wow! A class with no cake? Well, in this class, Mike will use a combination of hands on work, demonstration and lecture, so each student learns how to build their own working Sitting Up Dog Cake Stand, Woman's Shoe Cake Stand, and Standing Horse Cake Stand. All aspects of creating the stands, and the theory of the structure behind each will be explored.

• A working 20 serving Sitting Up Dog Cake Stand
• A working 20 serving Woman's Shoe Cake Stand
• A working 20 serving Standing Horse Stand
• A complete set of dimensions and patterns for each stand
• Instructions for sizing the stand up or down
• Comprehensive, step by step instruction manual for reproducing the stands again and again and how to apply cake, icing, fondant and modeling chocolate to create the finished products when you get home.

Instructor: Nicholas Lodge
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM - 5:30PM, Mon-Tues, Feb. 27- 28, 2012
Supply List: All Included

• Blue Bonnet
• Dogwood
• Camelia
• Cherry Blossom
• Yellow Jessamine
• Daffodil

Instructor: Roland & Marsha Winbeckler
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9-11AM, Monday, February 27, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Instructor: Roland & Marsha Winbeckler
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 12:30 - 2:30PM, Monday, 27 February, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Instructor: Lauren Kitchens
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 2-5PM, Monday, February 27, 2012
Supply List: All Included

This cake will have people asking you, "How did you do that?"

Lauren will take you through the steps of building a true-to-life waffle cake with an edible bottle of maple syrup hanging in the air pouring onto the cake.

You will decorate a square cake using butter cream, modeling chocolate, and fondant to look like a real breakfast waffle. You will learn how to create your own edible syrup bottle and a structure to hold the bottle up over the cake to make the syrup pour.

Learn the texturing and airbrushing tricks involved in making this fun cake come to life and how to apply these same techniques to other gravity -defying cake projects as well.

Techniques/Media used: fondant, modeling chocolate, butter cream, texturizing, airbrushing, structure building, chocolate molding

Instructor: Roland & Marsha Winbeckler
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 3-5PM, Monday, February 27, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Instructor: Mike McCarey
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 8:30AM - 5PM, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Supply List: View

• support
• sculpt
• finish your own Electric Guitar Cake

Instructor: Roland & Marsha Winbeckler
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 9AM-12PM, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Supply List: All Included

Learn to make beautiful, lifelike buttercream flowers that do not need to be dried. These flowers are made either directly on the cake or on a skewer and then placed directly on the cake. Students will learn how to make an orchid, violets, pansies and more as time permits.

Instructor: Roland & Marsha Winbeckler
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Tx
Date: 1-5PM, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Supply List: All Included

• operate and care for the airbrush
• what exercises to practice to gain better control
• how to cut and use custom stencils