Cake Decorating for Beginners

Course Description:

Discover your Creative Cake skills and join our tutor Barbara Riggi on this colourful & delicious 10-week course. You’ll learn everything you need to know to create your first edible masterpiece that will surprise your family & friends at your next celebration!

During this course you will develop new skills including:

• Sponge and cupcake baking
• Mediums Preparation: Buttercream & Chocolate Ganache
• Cake assembly (layering, crumb coating, buttercream finishing, beginners piping)
• Cupcakes & Cookies decorating techniques
• Decorative sugar work (including: sugar paste flowers, sugar figurines & decorations)
• Various tips on cake storage & cake photography
• Recipes and tutorials will be provided during the course.

This is a beginners ‘course. Intermediate students may also find it very useful for skills improvement.

Equipment Needed for Class:

A cake decorating kit costing €40 can be purchased from the tutor.

Alternatively you can bring your own cake decorating tools.

Complete list will be supplied by the tutor to students 2 to 3 weeks prior to commencing the class.

Tutor will inform students of equipment/ materials needed for each class, by email.

Course Day :  Tuesday night

Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm

Start Date: 16/09/25

Cost: €140 for the course plus optional cake decorating kit costing €40 to be paid to the tutor prior to commencing the class. Alternatively, you can bring along your own cake decorating kit to use and a list will be supplied for students once they enrol.

Course Format: Face to Face with tutor in Malahide Community School. Maximum of 10 students

Duration: 2 hour classes

How to Enrol: Registration is available by going onto website www.malahidecsadulted.ie
and clicking on the ‘Enrol Here’ button.

Registration for this class will open on Monday the 18th of August at 11am on our website.

Meet Our Tutor: Barbara Riggi

I am the owner of Barbara Riggi Cakes  www.barbarariggicakes.com a boutique wedding cake-design home studio.

My journey into cakes began in my grandmother’s kitchen in Sicily, where I learned to appreciate great food and the enjoyment of sugar craft.

Fast forward to 2015, after a career in Finance, I decided to further my passion for baking and cake decorating, completing a Professional Development Diploma in Baking & Sugar Craft in the DIT National Bakery School. I established my cake business in 2016.

My cakes have been featured on wedding publications, online wedding blogs, national TV. My cake design studio was listed as one of “The cream of Irish bakers” in the Sunday Times magazine in 2020 and won, in 2025, the “WeddingSuppliers.ie awards 2025, in the category “Cake Designer of the year”.

I am very passionate about my craft and I want my students to learn a new skill set and feel empowered to create their own masterpieces.

I can’t wait to welcome you to this class and see your baking skills blossom!