? About Offering Decorating Classes.
Business By mommicakes Updated 30 Dec 2009 , 8:23pm by saberger
If any of you offer decorating classes, could you please give me some advice on how to promote them, and any ideas you may have? I would totally appreciate any input you can send my way.
anyone have an info they wish to share?
I would like to teach an after school class for kids as soon as I get my shop. I thought about doing for the general public, but I figured if I start teaching them then I could find myself out of business, no since in buying a cake if you know how to do it yourself! But anyway, I think you need to check with your state to see if you need a license or permit to teach. I know that some do require it. Check with your local health department to see what the rules are for that.
Definately teach what you are really good at.
Jen 
I just wish you were in my area! I really want to take classes on sugar flowers and modeling figurines.... but there is nothing available around here past the Wilton classes.
Good luck!
I was asked if I would teach an advanced fondant class. The person asking went on to say that nobody seems interested in garret frills and....well now I can't remember what else she said, but it led me to wonder...what else would I teach?
What, in your opinion, gets taught at an advanced fondant class?
I was thinking fabric effects...bows, draping, ruffles, etc. Maybe ribbon roses...??? 
I was asked if I would teach an advanced fondant class. The person asking went on to say that nobody seems interested in garret frills and....well now I can't remember what else she said, but it led me to wonder...what else would I teach?
What, in your opinion, gets taught at an advanced fondant class?
I was thinking fabric effects...bows, draping, ruffles, etc. Maybe ribbon roses...???
I have taken the Wilton fondant class, and what I still want to learn is everything you mentioned above (we did one bow in the Wilton class, on the gift package, but there are so many more varieties). Plus I would like to learn about modeling figurines. There are other options such as marizpan or chocolate, but you could teach about adding Tylose and making them out of fondant.
I would love to learn figure modeling, but as far as I can tell, there is no where around here where I could go to learn.
Are there any books or DVDs that anyone could recommend, or a better way to find tutorials on YouTube... when I try to search for gumpaste or fondant, mostly I get flower tutorials (not all... I have found a few figurine tutorials, but mostly), and when I look for polymer clay tutorials, I end up with a lot of how to make canes.
- Leisel
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