From simple Santa faces and gingerbread to a glowing candle cake and a flying sleigh over town.
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You will begin with quick, confidence-building festive pieces: a decorated Christmas tree centrepiece, simple Santa faces for topping a cake, and a charming mini gingerbread house. From there you step up to your first substantial royal icing project, a Santa on a sleigh topper built entirely from piping, before tackling a full winter scenery cake where you will airbrush skies and distant mountains, model a snowman and a little house, and bring a whole landscape together on one cake.
The middle of the journey builds real structural and modelling skill. You will bake, cut and assemble a snow-covered gingerbread house complete with chimney, balcony and piped roof detail, then sculpt a realistic Santa Claus seated in a baroque chair, learning faces, beards, hands and fine airbrushed ornament work. A session on edible Christmas balls sharpens your patience and finishing before the two showstoppers: a tall 3D Christmas candle cake with chocolate coating, gradient fondant, isomalt baubles and a piped garland, and finally a gravity-defying scene of Santa and his reindeer flying over a lit-up town.
It suits intermediate hobby decorators who want a handful of reliable Christmas ideas, as well as professionals planning a seasonal order book at several price points. By the end you will be comfortable with royal icing piping, gingerbread construction, airbrushing, figurine modelling, isomalt and internal supports, and you will be able to offer everything from a simple decorated Christmas cake to a fully sculpted presentation centrepiece.
