Cookies decoration with royal icing workshop
Duration: 8h - Price: 250€ - Level: all levels - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
None
Program
- What material to choose, how to maintain it.
- How to make royal icing and color it.
- Learning the different cookie decorating techniques (flooding, embroidery effect, wet-on-wet, painting, ...).
- What consistency of royal icing to choose depending on the chosen technique.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour is spent cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
- 02/04/24 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (250€) Register
- 15/11/24 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (250€) Register
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* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Modern Square Cake Workshop
Duration: 9h - Price: 310€ - Level: all levels - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
None
Program
During this training you will make a gourmet square cake decorated with a colored and textured chocolate ganache (origami effect). You will make a spray gun flocking.
During this course you will learn:
- baking a cookie
- production of a stable filling cream
- making a fruit filling
- assembly
- making an express white chocolate ganache
- perfect smoothing of the square cake
- creating the origami effect
- making flocking with a spray gun
- assembly
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour is spent cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
None planned, please contact us if you would like us to organise a new session soon.
To be notified when we will add new sessions of this course type, click here.
Photos of this course*
* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Wafer Paper flowers workshop
Duration: 9h30 - Price: 280€ - Level: all levels - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
None
Program
During this course you will learn:
- The characteristics of the different types of Wafer Paper.
- 2 different techniques for working with Wafer Paper (2 techniques will be used in class).
- How to make thin, flexible petals with veins to make the most realistic flowers possible.
- Coloring techniques (plain, gradient).
- Intricate flower assembly.
- Conservation.
During this course we will make 2 flowers: a peony and a rose with foliage.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour is spent cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
- 05/04/24 from 8H30 to 18H30 (Paris) (280€) Register (2 seats left)
- 10/08/24 from 9H00 to 19H00 (Paris) (280€) Register
- 16/10/24 from 8H30 to 18H30 (Paris) (280€) Register
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Photos of this course*
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Introduction to airbrush for Cake Design course
Duration: 14h (2d) - Price: 470€ - Level: all levels - Maximum number of participants: 4
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
None
Program
- Understanding the airbrush and choosing the right equipment.
- Learn to handle the airbrush on paper with different exercises.
- Techniques for filling in simple shapes and working with shadows (working on paper).
- Creating gradations on a paper
- Creating a stencil with a middle complexity design.
- Practice (paper work).
- Creating a stencil for cake
- Preparation of edible and E171-free color mixtures.
- Creation of this drawing directly on a fake cake 15 cm high.
- Completing the decor (small wafer paper flowers, shading)
At the end of this training you will perfectly master the airbrush. You will know how to create airbrush dyes from gel dyes. You will be able to create uniform gradients, color flowers or wafer paper, paint middle complexity and small images.
This course only takes place in mini groups of 4 people. Each person has their own airbrush.
If time permits, other images will be possible.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 4 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour of each day is devoted to cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
- From 25/04/24 to 26/04/24 from 8H30 to 16H00 (Paris) (470€) Register
- From 05/11/24 to 06/11/24 from 8H30 to 16H00 (Paris) (470€) Register
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Photos of this course*
* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Sugar flowers workshop (3 different types)
Duration: 16h (2d) - Price: 460€ - Level: all levels - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
None
Program
During this training you will make the following types of flowers:
- Open peony
- Orchid
- Rose
- Eucalyptus branch
We will make together at the beginning of the course a unique flower paste (made by us). It allows the flowers to stay flexible and look real! You will leave with your creations and the dough recipe.
We also work with cutters developed by Gateaux sur Mesure which are replicas of real petals. You will be able to buy the models on site if you wish with a preferential rate.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour of each day is devoted to cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
- From 03/04/24 to 04/04/24 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (460€) Register
- From 14/10/24 to 15/10/24 from 8H30 to 17H00 (Paris) (460€) Register
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Photos of this course*
* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Sculpted cake with structure workshop
Duration: 17h (2d) - Price: 510€ - Level: advanced - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: leisure workshop
Prerequisites
Please note that this course is only open to people who have experience with sugar paste.
Program
This course will learn you to make cakes with a simple structure.
You will learn:
- how to create a safe structure depending on the shape of the cake (you will create your structure yourself).
- what biscuits and creams to use for sculpted cakes.
- use of RKT and modeling chocolate.
- how to cut a cake.
- how to smooth a complex shaped cake and cover it.
- coloring the cake to add more relief.
Cakes and creams are already prepared in advance by us.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Course Certificate will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour of each day is devoted to cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
- From 06/04/24 to 07/04/24 from 8H30 to 17H30 - Theme: Chameleon (Paris) (510€) Register
- From 17/10/24 to 18/10/24 from 8H00 to 17H00 (Paris) (510€) Register
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Photos of this course*
* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Wedding Cake without sugar paste course
Duration: 24h (3d) - Price: 950€ - Level: advanced - Maximum number of participants: 6
Instructor: Galina Duverne - Type: professional course
Prerequisites
You must have already made layer cakes and know how to perfectly smooth a cake.
Program
During this training you will create a 3-tiers wedding cake on a given theme without using sugar paste. You will master the following techniques:
- Making a basic biscuit and cream for all 3 tiers.
- Making two white chocolate ganaches:
- for painting
- for smoothing and creating textures
- Perfect smoothing (including a hexagonal shaped floor)
- Making a branch of artistic flowers in wafer paper.
- Creating a texture with white chocolate ganache.
- Creating velvet effects with chocolate (flocking).
The work will only be carried out on real cakes.
This course is aimed at people who know how to make wedding cakes.
Only recipes used in class will be sent to you.
Information
The course is in French but the teacher also gives the course in English in case of a non-French speaking student.
The number of students is limited to 6 people so that the teacher is available to advance each student individually.
A Certificat de Formation will be given to you at the end of the course.
All materials are loaned for the duration of the course. Raw materials and supplies are included in the price. Lunch is not included.
Each intern is required to clean up their work plan, equipment and tools.
The last half hour of each day is devoted to cleaning the laboratory.
Next sessions
None planned, please contact us if you would like us to organise a new session soon.
To be notified when we will add new sessions of this course type, click here.
Photos of this course*
* The photos are not contractual, the models are likely to change at each course.
Success statistics
Year | Number of trainees | Hours of training | Success rate |
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2023 | 2 | 48 | 100% |
2022 | 11 | 264 | 100% |
Year | Number of trainees | Hours of training | Success rate |
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2023 | 17 | 680 | 100% |
2022 | 20 | 800 | 95% |
2021 | 22 | 880 | 100% |
Year | Number of trainees | Hours of training | Success rate |
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2023 | 7 | 280 | 100% |
2022 | 8 | 320 | 100% |
2021 | 9 | 360 | 100% |
Year | Number of trainees | Hours of training | Success rate |
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2023 | 12 | 1920 | 100% |
2022 | 16 | 2560 | 94% |
2021 | 14 | 2240 | 93% |