Hunter's Birthday Cupcake Class

Just finally got around to processing the images from Hunter's 7th Birthday Cupcake Class Party. Wow! They had such a fun day, playing with icing, giggling, eating sweets, and just bring kids. I have to say, it was the hardest class we have ever taught, and the 3 hours just flew!!!

 

 

 

 

We are not currently offering kids classes, but it is something we are looking into as the future unfolds. Always more to do, and it certainly was a great experience. Never rule anything out around here, that's becoming my motto!

 

 

The cake was a magnificent design by Jon. Topped with a modelling chocolate "cherry" this 4 tier cake weighed around 20kg!!!

 

 

Class Schedule July - September 2012

Below we have a quick recap of the May and June classes remaining, and the awaited July through September schedule. Booking will be available online immediately for May and June, and the rest will be on as soon as possible.

May 2012

Tuesday 15th Modelling Chocolate Basics 10am - 2pm $180

Sunday 20th Sugarpaste Figurines 9am - 4pm $275

Tuesday 22nd Beginners Piping 10am - 2pm $150

Saturday 26th/ Sunday 27th Intermediate Sculpted 1 Teapot and Teacup 10am - 4pm $450 BOOKED OUT

Tuesday 29th Wedding Cookies 10am - 2pm $150

June 2012

Sunday 3rd Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $150

Tuesday 5th Advanced Piping and Brush Embroidery 10am - 2pm $220

Saturday 9th/ Sunday 10th Intermediate 2 Tier Round Cake Class 10am - 4pm $450

Tuesday 12th Sugarpaste Roses 10am - 4pm $275

Sunday 17th Couture Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150 BOOKED OUT

Tuesday 19th Beginners 1 Round Cake 10am - 4pm $330

Friday 22nd Garden Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 24th Wedding Cupcakes 10am - 4pm $225

Tuesday 26th Buttercream Cake Class - Ruffle, Petal, Rosette $200

July 2012

Saturday 7th/ Sunday 8th Intermediate 3 Tier Round Giant Rose Cake Class 9am - 4pm $650

Tuesday 10th Flower Pot Cake and Cake Pops Class - Modelling Choc 9am - 4pm $350

Saturday 14th MURRURUNDI Buttercream Cakes 10am - 3pm $250

Sunday 15th MURRURUNDI Couture Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $200

Tuesday 17th Sugarpaste Orchids 10am - 4pm $295

Saturday 21st "Sweet Treats" Cake Pops & Cookie class 10am - 3pm $200

Tuesday 24th Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $180

Saturday 28th French Provincial Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $180

August 2012

Saturday 4th/ Sunday 5th 2 Tier Round Intermediate Madhatter Cake Class 9am - 4pm $600

Tuesday 7th Smooth Finish Buttercream & Flowers Cake 10am - 3pm $220

Sunday 12th Sugarpaste Garden Filler Flowers - 10am - 4pm $250

Tuesday 14th Beginners Piping 10am - 2pm $180

Sunday 19th Forest Friends Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $180

Tuesday 21st Beginners Sculpted 1 Handbag Cake 9am - 4pm $375

Sunday 26th Beginners 1 Round Cake 10am - 4pm $330

Tuesday 28th Mini Cakes 10am - 3pm $250

September 2012

Saturday 1st/ Sunday 2nd Intermediate Sculpted 2 Teddy Bear - Modelling Choc 9am - 4pm $550

Tuesday 4th Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $180

Saturday 8th Buttercream Cake Class - Ruffle, Petal, Rosette $220

Tuesday 11th Couture Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $180

Saturday 15th/ Sunday 16th Intermediate Sculpted 1 Teapot and Teacup 10am - 4pm $450

Tuesday 18th Sugarpaste Figurines 9am - 4pm $275

Sunday 23rd Beginners 2 Square Cake 9am - 4pm $330

Tuesday 25th Wedding Cupcakes 10am - 4pm $225

Our Christmas Cake Pop and Cookie Class 2011

In the spirit of Christmas, Sugar Rush created a cookie and cake pop class for our students. It was a great chance for some of our regulars to catch up and wish each other a happy holiday season, and also to learn more new skills to impress their loved ones!

What a fun, messy class! We taught students to cover cookies with icing, royal icing flood work, as well as fine piping and glitter everything in sight.

The cake pops were awesome. Snowmen everywhere, and forest of trees, as well as sprinkles and ornaments. For anyone who missed this class, we do have an Easter class on our schedule.

Happy Holidays and happy baking to everyone. Stay safe, and we look forward to seeing you all in class next year! xx

Sugar Rush Cake Design School Course Schedule 2012

Below is the course schedule for the first half of 2012. For more details please call (02) 4948 1286 or email sugarrush@bigpond.com

January 2012

Sunday 8th Sugarpaste Figurines 9am - 4pm $275

Tuesday 10th Buttercream Cakes 10am - 2pm $200

Tuesday 17th Modelling Chocolate Basics 10am - 2pm $180

Sunday 22nd Beginners Sculpted 2 Bird House 9am - 4pm $375

Tuesday 24th Sugarpaste Orchids 10am - 4pm $275

Wednesday 25th Beginners 1 Round Cake 10am - 4pm $330

Tuesday 31st Garden Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Febuary 2012

Sunday 5th Beginners Sculpted 1 Handbag Cake 9am - 4pm $375

Tuesday 7th Cookies and Cake Pops 10am - 3pm $180

Friday 10th Edible Painting $180

Sunday 12th Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 19th Sugarpaste Roses 10am - 4pm $275

Tuesday 21st Beginners Piping 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 26th Beginners 2 Square Cake 9am - 4pm $330

March 2012

Sunday 11th Couture Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Tuesday 13th Wedding Sugarpaste Figurines 9am - 4pm $375

Friday 16th Easter Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 18th Buttercream Cakes 10am - 2pm $200

Sunday 25th Easter Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Tuesday 27th Wedding Cupcakes 10am - 4pm $225

April 2012

Sunday 1st Easter Cookies and Cake Pops 10am - 3pm $180

Tuesday 10th Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 15th Beginners Sculpted 2 Bird House 9am - 4pm $375

Tuesday 17th Wedding Cookies $180

Sunday 22nd Beginners 1 Round Cake 9am - 4pm $330

Tuesday 24th Mini Cakes 10am - 3pm $250

Sunday 29th French Provincial Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

May 2012

Sunday 6th Beginners 2 Square Cake 9am - 4pm $330

Tuesday 8th Garden Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Tuesday 15th Modelling Chocolate Basics 10am - 2pm $180

Sunday 20th Sugarpaste Figurines 9am - 4pm $275

Tuesday 22nd Beginners Piping 10am - 2pm $150

Saturday 26th/ Sunday 27th Intermediate Sculpted 1 Teaspot and Teacup 10am - 4pm $450

Wedding Cupcakes 10am - 4pm $225

June 2012

Sunday 3rd Cupcake Bouquet 10am - 2pm $150

Tuesday 5th Advanced Piping and Brush Embroidery 10am - 2pm $220

Saturday 9th/ Sunday 10th 2 Tier Round Cake Class 10am - 4pm $450

Tuesday 12th Sugarpaste Roses 10am - 4pm $275

Tuesday 19th Beginners 1 Round Cake 10am - 4pm $330

Friday 22nd Garden Cupcakes 10am - 2pm $150

Sunday 24th Wedding Cupcakes 10am - 4pm $225

Tuesday 26th Buttercream Cakes 10am - 2pm $200

French Provincial Cupcake Class

This is the newest cupcake class on offer at Sugar Rush. It is perfect for those students who have taken our other cupcake classes, or those who have some previous cake experience.  They are sophisticated, complex, refined and most of all delicious!

This class we will be honing your icing skills. We will be teaching you how to make the perfect delicate ribbon rose, work with molds and cutters. You will also get a chance to do some silver hand-painting as well as those perfect stripes. 

This class is all about pushing students to use different tools and equipment, as well as becoming more comfortable with technical cake terms, although for those of you who have attended our classes, there will still be our usual antics and bizarre pet names for what we teach. There has to be fun and laughter to make Sugar Rush go round!

Students will be creating much more realistic blossom flowers this time as well as using impressions, patchwork cutters, fine piping, and even two tone piping. We want to expand your skills set and push you to try new things. We have fallen in love with these designs, and we hope you will too!

If you are interested in attending our classes, please call us on (02) 4948 1286

All this wonderful photography is dine by the hugely talented Rog at Popcorn Photography.

Our Sugarpaste Roses Class

Last Tuesday we had the great pleasure of teaching 4 of our students how to create stunning sugarpaste roses. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the girls all came early, excited to see what they were going to create. The class was made up of one super sweet bride of ours, Gabby, a decorating machine! Kat, and two new converts, Kendall and Michelle, who thanks in part to our classes have discovered a new passion: Cakes and Icing!!!

In class we taught how to make the perfect "imperfect" rose, a closed peony, and a wild open rose. All have their own ways of creating petals, shaping, veining, and drying. All with their own little tips and tricks. 

Over the day long class, we spent much of the time working at a nice calm pace. The students were amazingly fast learners, and it was incredible to see their flowers taking shape in front of them. We really had a wonderful day sharing our experience and teaching techniques that were quite new and foreign to our students. But they kept an open mind, and continued to see their creations grow. The sense of pride they exhibited once the final open rose was complete was inspiring. All the girls did amazing. Their creations are below, and I hope this class inspires them to continue creating beautiful floral cakes and sweets. 

Happy Decorating!

Sugarpaste Roses Class - 27th September 2011

Next week we have our first ever sugarpaste flower class. Roses, peonies and Wild Roses. This is an all day class, costing $275.

There have been a lot of interest in our roses over the years, they are known for looking extremely realistic. This is achieved through a combination of techniques, veining, dusting and assembling petals together. We are going to teach step by step how to create these stunning roses.

As well as our signature roses, we are teaching closed peonies, full like our roses, yet more ruffled, imperfect, and layered.

We have a third design, the Wild Rose, which will be a very garden inspired design, that will be revealed in class, for everyone to see, touch and examine.

For anyone interested in this class, please email us at sugarrushclasses@bigpond.com or call us on (02) 4948 1286.

Our First Couture Cupcake Class

Last Sunday we had he great pleasure here at Sugar Rush, of spending our day with 9 amazing ladies. Some new faces, some regular students; all excited to expand their cake decorating skills with our new Couture Cupcake class. 

Vanilla cupcakes, soft pink icing, lots of sugar, and big smiles. Pair that with a few coffees, a cupcake lunch, and you have yourself the perfect girly day.

This class is all about pearls, lace, bows, and shimmer. We start with the fondant details, so they have the afternoon to dry. The girls loved making the lace flowers, everyone creating different little blossoms to make it their own. The pearls were lots of fun, especially dusting the gold shimmer - somehow I think there was more on hands than anything else!!

After our "healthy" lunch, we got working on those fondant cupcakes. The concentration level went up quite considerably for the black piped dots; but everyone did incredibly well. Especially considering some girls had never held a piping bag in their lives. So proud!

These classes will be running once a month or so, please see our course schedule for more details.

Thank you to every one of our students for making this first Couture Class such a success. We could not be happier with the day, and your amazing creations. We love the little personal touches you made to your sweets, and can't wait to see more creations as you grow as cake artists!!

Images courtesy of Brooke Aime Art