Royal icing

Some of you may have noticed i chickened out of decorating the Vintage cupcakes with royal icing. This is not 100% accurate as i did mix up the royal icing but it was so sloppy i had no chance of getting lovely straight lines and accurate dots.

I have decided i need to go on a specialist course to get some dedicated tuition in this artform but i am struggling to make sure i find a course which will teach me what i want to learn. For example i do not want to learn how to do this:

I know some people love this heavy piping work but it just isn't me. I want to learn how to pipe stripes, dots and designs. A bit like these:

And i want to learn flooding techniques which allow you to make 3D objects such as butterflies like these:

And brush embroidery to get delicate flower motifs such as these:

Now to find the right class!