Sandy prepares a sheep-faced cupcake

Although it targets children, adults are welcome to join the class, but only if you’re an inexperienced baker like myself (and I enjoyed it tremendously), or you might get bored while the entire class goes crazy designing cupcakes using beginner-level ingredients and techniques.

The course costs $50, and each participant is handed five basic buttercupcakes and ready-to-apply icing. Creativity and a pair of steady hands is all that’s needed. And as I came to realise during the class, I lacked both.

Learn to make fun animal-faced cupcakes		Putting effort into the details (f)
Delightful creations of the class		My prettiest cupcake

Taking out the materials required for this class from my bag and laying them out in front of me brought me back to art class in primary school, and I got really excited waiting for the instructions.

Sandy Goh, who carries a certification from Wilton, a leading cake decorating school in USA, was our instructor for the day. She began by talking about the ingredients and sharing tips about the butter cream icing for decorating the Easter cupcakes. As we weren’t going to practice serious piping methods for flower decorations, thin consistency icing was used for the class.

		After a quick demonstration by Sandy on the right way to ice the cupcake, she showed the class how to make rabbit- and sheep-faced cupcakes. With simple techniques like marshmallow shaping and painting, the class was able to design a couple of cute cupcakes.
Sandy demonstrating to the class
The other three cupcakes were for freestyle decorating, which made me pretty nervous as I have never decorated or baked cupcakes in my life. Presented with M&M’s, marshmallows in different sizes, chocolate rice, food colouring, decorating gels, and Eastericing images, I was determined to make cupcakes which at least looked edible.		Transforming the cupcakes into charming Easter treats
The one-and-a-half-hour class passed swiftly, and I managed to come up with cute looking cupcakes by constantly peeping at my classmates’ designs and morphing their ideas onto my defenseless cupcakes After all that decorating fluff, it came down to eating it. Although most cake decorators don’t take a liking to sugaryicings, my self-made cupcakes tasted pretty good! Besides the artificial tasting coloured gel, it made a pretty enjoyable cupcake.
Cake decoration books for rent at BIY		Stencils of all shapes, sizes, and purposes

BIY offers four more Easter cupcake-decorating classes from March 11 to 14, at $50 per person.

About BIY

Bake It Yourself is the first Wilton-authorised and currently one of only two stores here that hold the exclusive right to carry out Wilton Method of Cake Decorating courses.

BIY also sells an extensive range of decorating products like lollipop mold, ready to use rolled fondant, stencils of all sorts, and letterpress sets. They also include rental of books and cake pans.

“Our items are carefully sourced worldwide so that we can offer our customers the widest range of cake decorating products possible. There are very few stores that are so focused on cake decorating, and we’re lucky to have a following of decorating enthusiasts and hobbyists who are regulars at the store,” said Cheryl Chee, owner of BIY.

Watch BIY’s regularly updated website, www.b-i-y.com, to look out for their festive courses which are open to all ages. (They are already making plans for a Mother’s Day Cookie Decorating class!)