Welcome to the Cake Decorators Q&A

I really learned something watching your free sessions, co I decided to go a bit further and joined an annual membership. I am so disappointed. All I have watched are really expert people cutting cakes into shape like a cat, another making a cake obviously for a show, but much too complicated for a beginner. I had hoped to learn how to ice a cake with Royal Icing and how to do some piping. Am I watching the wrong programme it’s as though I have paid to watch cake decorating on TV.

Hi ReneBaterip

It’s great that you’ve learned so much from the free beginners section. The section is designed to empower novices in the art of cake decorating. There are different skill levels and catagories to learn once the beginners level has been mastered. Natural transition would then be to go on to the intermediate level which puts into practice all the things learned in the free beginners section. Here modelling figures, making flowers, cake design and some royal icing is covered. For royal icing tutorial, guest tutor Cerie Griffiths teaches the basis of and continues with more intermediate and advanced techniques . Take a peek at his tutorials here:

Pearl White Wedding Cake

Scroll down from the video past the comments to see other related Cerie tutorials.
Next is the advanced skill level which deals with structured cakes and carving and utilise all the skills learned in the preceding levels and catagories. This is where we see more specialised guest tuors who have been brought in to teach members highly skilled techniques, all included in the price of the membership fee.
If you feel the courses are not as you expected, please email the site’s customer support team here:
[email protected] and explain as you have here that the courses are not as you would like. So sorry that you feel so unhappy. This is a happy learning enviroment and your happiness is very important. x

Just by way of update, Ceri will be back in the studio soon to share more of his royal icing skills and techniques very soon.

Our aim is to progress beginners through the ranks in a wide range of cake decorating disciplines.We are often told how straightforward even a stunning design can be when broken down into small easy steps and our community are always on hand to help out as you’ll note from the reaction time to this question.

Please have a look at our beginner range and perhaps choose one or two to have a go at and see how you get on from there and email [email protected] if you have any membership issues or questions.

https://www.cakeflix.com/online-cake-decorating-courses?skill_level=beginner

Happy caking 🙂