We are looking for Young Bakers that love baking and cake designing.

We are celebrating 4 years of the CCS Academy

We are looking for students for this year’s 1st year program.  Each student will learn the essentials of baking and cake decorating.  1 year class will be limited to 6 students.   Registration ends August 1th.

Have questions come to your Parent’s Open House on August 1st at 6:00pm.  This is a drop in event, meet the instructors, ask questions, see all the tool kits, and meet other parents.

What will they get for the tuition:

The Academy is a 4-year program – The bakers come to us for 6 months each year (September to March).  September through November they come 1 weekend a month (Saturday and Sunday) and then January to March the will come 1 to 2 weekends a month.

 The program is designed for young bakers that feel that they want to make cakes as a career or even own their own bakery.

 Each year they learn different skill sets to help make them successful:

• 1^st year they learn everything from
• Kitchen safety
• Reading Recipes
• Baking from scratch and box mixes
• Learn to make several different types of Buttercreams.
• Piping Basics
• Buttercream design techniques
• 2^nd year they learn to work (not a lot of baking in 2^nd year)
• With Fondant
• Gum Paste
• Modeling Chocolate
• Sculpting Cakes
• Cake design and support
• 3^rd year they learn (back to baking)
• Wedding Cake design (old school designs)
• Stacking and Tiering cakes
• Understanding type of cake used for solid support.
• Working with Royal Icing
• 4^th year they will learn.
• Pastry baking
• Working with Isomalt
• Working with chocolate

 At the end of each year's 6-month program the young bakers will design a cake (based on skills that they have learned) that they will take to  the “That Takes The Cake” Cake Competition.   The competition is around the end of March or 1^st of April.

 With the tuition – each year a student will get a kit that will help them to practice skills learned at home.  The last page is a list of the items the 1^st year students will receive.  

We only take 6 students each year in the program.   

Email me at cakecraftshoppe.cyndi@gmail.com to get your registration packet.  You can even pay online use keyword: Academy

Happy Baking