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Cavan Institute’s Information and Enrolment Evening for Spring 2010 takes place on Wednesday 13 January 2010 from 6.00-9.00pm and we are currently accepting applications for next Spring. For an application form click here.  

Contact details for the college :

Margaret Tiernan

B.A., H.Dip., M.A.

Director of Adult EducationSchool of Lifelong Learning

Cavan Institute

Cathedral Road, Cavan

Telephone: (049) 4332633

Facsimile: (049) 4361933

E-mail: adulted@cavaninstitute.ie

www.cavaninstitute.ie

The Advanced sugarcraft course will start this Monday 18th January.  Anyone interested should contact the Adult Education Department of Athlone IT.

Looking forward to the next 8 weeks.  I just hope the weather improves.

We are into our 8th week in Athlone IT and we have two classes of great sugarcrafters.

In the last two weeks we made sugarpaste novelty animals and sugarpaste flowers.  The students brought in their own cakes tonight and created flowers and novelties for them.

Here are a few of their cakes from tonight.

Next week we are getting into the Christmas spirit, covering our fruit cakes with almond paste and making some novelty Christmas cake toppers.

During our 4th basic sugarpaste course in Athlone IT we made a few Halloween cake toppers.

This is a sugarpaste ghost being made step by step. 

Using the sugarpaste create a short column which will be the body of the ghost.

Pinch the sides of the body to make arms.

Roll out a round thin piece of white sugarpaste and cover the body fully. 

Using a toothpick dipped in black sugarpaste colour, dot two eyes to finish.

Now place your ghost on your covered Halloween cake and write your message.

I will be teaching an 8 week basic sugarcraft course in Cavan Institute starting tomorrow evening, 14th October.

It is from 7pm to 9pm and will teach you how work with sugarpaste, royal icing, almond paste and piping.  This course will equip you with the skills to produce a celebration cake with a difference.

Contact name for the course is Margaret Tiernan and telephone number is 049 4332633.

It is that time of year again and we are starting our 10 week Sugarcraft Course in Athlone IT.

Here is the outline of the course.

Sugarcraft and Cake Decorating 

Aim of Course 

This course is designed to equip you with all the necessary skills to design and decorate your own speciality cakes.

 Course Content

 This course will teach you the correct application of almond paste, sugar pate and hand made fi gurines.

 Learn how to cover cakes with sugar paste and make sugar fl owers or hand paint your cake. You will also learn how to make figurines for birthday cakes and place your own photo on for a novelty touch.

Intended for 

This course is for candidates who have little or no knowledge of sugarcraft and cake artistry. An advanced Sugarcraft course may be offered for those that have already completed the basic course with us.

Duration         10 weeks – Monday 7.00pm to 9.30pm

Commencing   7.00 Monday 22nd September 2009

Award            Institute Certificate of Attendance

Course Fee     €240 (Please note that participants will have to purchase materials seperately).

 If you are interested in taking this course please contact:

Department of Adult and Continuing Eductation,

Athlone Institute of Technology,

Dublin Road, Athlone, Co. Westmeath.

090 6483050

Email: cburke@ait.ie / jking@ait.ie / jcooper@ait.ie

The kids made some fantastic animals.   We had white crocodiles, snakes, mice, dogs, cats, and even a mini person. 

Here are a few photos from the class.  To see the rest click on Flickr.

We had 21 children between the ages of 8-13.  They baked well over 100 cupcakes and had great fun making little sugarpaste toppings for them.

The workshop is one of many all week which is running in conjunction with the Joe Mooney Summer School in Drumshanbo.  My part in it is sponsored by the Taste 4 Success Food Skillnet.  The Cupcake workshop ran today and we are having a Novelty Sugarpaste  Animal workshop tomorrow.  I’m looking forward to seeing all the kids again tomorrow morning at 11am.

I had great help from Aoife, Brian and Hannah.  I hope everyone enjoyed the baking and icing as much as we did.

Just wanted to let you know about a Blog Site design workshop that Liz is running on Saturday July 11 from 1 to 5 pm at the Shaylyn Centre in Ballinamore.

It’s aimed at:

• total beginners – if you can point and click – you can develop a blog
• families and friends who want to stay connected and up to date with each others news
• clubs and community groups who want to communicate with their membership
• small businesses who want to let people know about their product and service offerings

Here are Liz’s contact details:

Liz Lennon. CEO. Focused Solutions.
Your Vision. Our Focus.
High St. Ballinamore. Co. Leitrim. Ireland.
+353 (0)71 9645443

http://lizbiz.wordpress.com

The beautiful flowers presented by my class at the end of our 10 weeks.

Thank you so much, the flowers, and the card, were a lovely thought.  Thank you Eileen also for the lovely card.   I really enjoyed my 10 weeks both before and after Christmas.  It was great to see you all improving so quickly and enjoying something I have for many years.

I have to put the last two weeks of the course together. I didn’t have my camera with me for Week 9.

Week 9 – We made chocolate paste. This is a paste made from melted chocolate, glucose syrup and water which when mixed together and left overnight can be rolled out and used for covering cakes and making flowers.
I made some up the day before the course so the girls could actually use it and we made a selection of milk, white and dark chocolate flowers from it.

Week 10 – The last week was used to allow the girls to make whatever type of cake they wanted. So we ended up with a wide variety of novelty cakes from couches, handbags, cars, books and teddies.
Here is a selection of some of them. 

I have finally got most of my course photos together as a set on our Flickr site.    Have a look and see if you can find yours.  Keep in touch and enjoy sugarcrafting.