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Class: Advanced gum paste flowers
Teacher: Maria Badiee
Date: Saturday, Feb 25th, 2012
Time: 9 AM - 430 PM
Cost: $85 (supplies not included)
Supplies: All necessary supplies are available for purchase at Amazing Cake Supplies.
Details: Learn how to make wired flowers with gum paste. With the right tools, you’ll create floral sprays for any occasion, from “everyday” to “elegant,” impressing everyone along the way! Sign up for this class by 2/11/12 to insure seating availability

Class: Gum paste floral series - Module 1: the rose
Teacher: Edet Okon
Date: Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Time: 10 AM - 4 PM
Cost: $200 (includes supplies and light lunch)
Supplies: All necessary supplies will be provided with the exception of tools. All required tools will be available for purchase at Amazing Cake Supplies.
Learn: make roses, making gum paste from scratch, how to handle gum paste, wiring/veining/taping of roses and their corresponding foliage, petal coloring and foliage dusting, airbrushing, steaming, assembling a posy of roses ready for placement on a cake
Details: Throughout the history of man, no flower has ever been as loved, renowned or celebrated as the rose. The history and celebrity of the rose spans a broad spectrum ranging from its powerful yet seductive presence in ancient Greek and Roman mythology to its bountiful uses and illustrations in the culinary world. However, despite the popularity of the rose amongst cake decorators and sugar artists alike, this flower still remains one of the most difficult flowers to make consistently lifelike in sugar. It is the hope that this class will help you gain the confidence and experience needed for you to take your roses and decorated cakes to levels that maximize the “wow factor” we cake artist are known for.
So come learn how to make the rose in its entirety. We will cover five different blossoming stages of the rose, learn how to make its corresponding foliage and a filler flower (for extra pizzazz) and finally, how to put these different pieces together to form a floral spray that is guaranteed to make your cake the talk of any occasion.


Kaye Hartman has been decorating cakes for over 20 years. She attended the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu School in Pasadena, California and did her externship at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas--where she learned how to completely decorate wedding cakes in less than one hour. She is the founder of Petal Crafts, a company that designs and manufactures quality cake decorating products and Cake Art Academy, an online cake decorating school. Her work has been featured in local and national publications such as Glendale News Press, InStyle Weddings and Pastry Art & Design Magazines. She was recently featured at the Ellen Degeneres Show for making her birthday cake last January.

John Busch has worked in the rolled fondant business since 1990. He started with an overseas company that came to Little Rock, Arkansas to build a manufacturing plant and stayed for 16 years. During that time he "tweaked" the taste of the rolled fondant from an Australian taste and turned it into something Americans would like. At the time he was introduced to Ms. Kerry Vincent and the two became accomplices in trying to spread the word about this new product in the U.S. By actually manufacturing the first rolled fondant, John became an expert, not in decorating, but in the taste and consistency of the product. He went on to Cal Java International where he is to this day. John travels the United States teaching classes on the basics of rolled fondant, how to handle it, how to properly roll it and cover cakes. Of course, he always finishes the cakes off with a Cal Java Sweet Inspiration flower!

Edet Okon is the executive pastry chef at Satin Slices Houston Texas. He has a Bachelors degree in economics, attended the the Culinary Institute of America where he majored in baking and pastry arts and has a masters degree in hospitality management from the University of Houston. His area of specialization is in contemporary wedding cake design and construction. Edet has been awarded a gold medal from the American Culinary (ACF) for professional wedding cake designs and Satin Slices was recently voted as number one for best cakes by Houstons Bests.

Maria Badiee is a self-taught cake decorating and instructor with over 8 years of experience as a certified Wilson Method instructor. She learned the basics of cake and pastry decorating at a local craft store and enjoys showing others the simple secrets for anyone from the home baker to the aspiring young pastry chef.