Learn how easy it is to put the 'Icing on the Cake'. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will take you step-by-step through preparation of your cake, filling your Decorating Bags and icing techniques. After learning these basic techniques you will have the skills to decorate masterpieces for your friends and family. If you wish to provide cupcakes at your class, everyone can practice their new found talents. Accents, edible glitter and sanding sugars give added dimensiion to your guest's creations. Are you ready to have fun?

No time to ice your dessert? You won't believe all the fantastic results you can achieve with this simple cake decorating technique! Besides the ease and beauty of a cake, cupcake, cookie or pastry stenciled with cocoa or powdered sugar, you have eliminated all the calories from the icing. Let us show you how to color powdered sugar for added flare. Make yellow and orange sunflowers. Red holly berries with green holly leaves. White and blue snowflakes. Red and pink hearts. Get the picture?

So simple to make, so fun to play with, this is one kind of clay you can actually eat. In no time you will be sculpting figures, making seasonal shapes and decorative cutouts or designing flowers. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination.

Learn the correct way to melt and mold our scrumptious Nestle® and Merckens® brand Candy Wafers. Other brands contain almost 90% wax. That's like taking a bite out of a candle! You will be taught how to use techniques for two-toned chocolates, flavoring your confections and un-molding them perfectly, every time. We teach you the tips, tricks and shortcuts to make chocolates so incredibly beautiful that no one will want to eat them. Oh, but they will. You can rely on the brand names of Nestle® and Merckens® for mouth watering results.

Chewing on the end of a Cake 'n Crumbs pencil is much tastier than chewing on a pencil eraser. Taking you one step further with basic chocolate molding, we will teach you how to use Pencil Pop Sucker Sticks, for making delicious chocolate creations to embellish the end of a pencil. Perfect for children's school treats, birthday favors or party centerpieces. You will be the talk of the crowd with these fun ideas!

Oh, yes! Everyone loves popcorn, but everyone loves popcorn covered in chocolate even more. Learn the special recipes and techniques for making colored chocolate popcorn to coordinate with school colors, holiday themes, team colors... you name it. The brand names of Nestle® and Merckens® will make it delicious every time. Don't be fooled by other brands that are 90% wax, unless you'd rather be eating wax covered popcorn. Let your Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor teach you the secrets of all the candy confectioner's tricks.

Hot chocolate and coffee just got better. These are not plastic spoons dipped in chocolate. They are 'solid' chocolate spoons. Once they are melted in your hot beverages you will be left with just the handle for your stir stick. Learn how to mold these chocolate spoons, flavor them for hot chocolate and coffee variations as well as how to decorate them for all your party and holiday themes. Better yet, we supply Chocolate Spoon Boxes so you can package them for spectacular gift giving.

What's better than a sucker? Well, a 'chocolate' sucker of course. Learn how to make chocolate lollipops that are molded for all your party and holiday needs. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will walk you through the use and care of our Candy Molds, as well as all the delightful things you can do with your finished creations. Secure them in one of our many Treat Bags, then use them to decorate packages, for party favors or to make a sensational centerpiece. You will learn how to flavor chocolates, how to use Candy Writers, painting techniques and more. Nestle® and Merckens® are brand names you know and can trust, for perfectly delectable confections every time.

Once you have hosted a Chocolate Sucker 'Molding' Class, you will most certainly want to host this Chocolate Sucker 'Bouquet' Class. We take you one step further with this amazing and crafty way to decorate for all your party and holiday entertaining. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will give you many ideas on how to take chocolate suckers and make spectacular centerpieces or edible bouquets for gifts. You'd spend $30-$40 for a creation we can teach you to make for much less. Let the fun begin!

And sweeties they are. Learn how to make the cutest little critters imaginable, like mice, bunnies and ladybugs. How about a Scream face or pumpkin for Halloween or a Santa for Christmas? This class is limited only by you and your guests' imaginations. We start with our basic Mocha Spoon Mold, use different colors of Candy Wafers, then use Candy Writers to design all kinds of 'sweeties'. The best part is learning all the great ways you can fill them... with things like peanut butter to make a classic candy cup, marshmallow crème and even how to flavor the marshmallow crème for loads of sensational flavors. You can fill them with liqueurs, crème centers and more. Now do you know why we've called them, chocolate sweeties?

As one of our classes that is not specifically 'hands-on', it is still a favorite. Learn how to make hard candy pieces for your holiday or party candy dishes, as well as hard candy suckers. Due to the heat needed to melt hard candy mix, a Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will demonstrate and teach you and your guests how to melt, flavor and color it. You will learn how to make all your favorite traditional candies like root beer, butterscotch, apple and cherry, to name just a few.

These mini chocolate baskets are simply adorable and tastefully sweet. We teach you how to properly mold a candy cup, but not until we explain how you can fill your candy cup with peanut butter to create a traditional peanut butter cup. You can also fill them with plain or flavored marshmallow crème, caramel or flavored crème centers. Learn how to melt Nestle® and Merckens® Candy Wafers for the taste of a professional candy confection. You will also learn the proper use of Candy Writers to decorate your little mini chocolate baskets.

Turtles look exactly like turtles when you use our Turtle Candy Mold. We will teach you how to use Candy Writers and Candy Wafers to mold the most incredible chocolate turtles imaginable. The pecans and caramels are hidden inside, to the delightful surprise of the person that eats one. Nestle® and Merckens® Candy Wafers make them delicious. You make them beautiful. You will also learn how to make chocolate cordials. These are chocolates filled with liqueurs such as Kahlua®, Bailey's® Irish Crème, Crème DeMenthe or Peppermint Schnapps. We will teach you how to fill your candy molds with crème and caramel centers for a variety of taste sensations. If you like chocolate-covered cherries you'll love our version. There are lots of wonderful things to learn in this Specialty Candy Making Class!

Learn how to make the coolest cookies ever. We'll show you inventive ways to color cookie dough and then piece together a 3-dimensional creation. Edible Glitter, Candy Writers, royal icing and Accents can be used to finalize your masterpiece. They are perfect for place settings, centerpieces, and holiday and birthday parties. Everyone will want to know where you got such unique and awesome cookies. Your guests will be thanking you over and over again for inviting them to such a fun and exciting class.

Learn how to create this fun, fall cookie in our Caramel Apple Cookie Class. You will learn the secret to tinting cookie dough and use our incredible Dobord™ to roll out the cookies quickly and evenly. After the cookies have been baked, we'll come back and add the finishing touches with caramel and pecans. As easy as it is delicious and beautiful, these also make great teacher gifts as well as wonderful cookie bouquets for the holidays. Host a Caramel Apple Cookie Class and let us show you how.

You can pay a small fortune for a cookie bouquet, or you can let us teach you how to make one yourself, for a fraction of the cost. Who wouldn't prefer an edible bouquet over flowers or balloons? A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor can show you the techniques and supplies you will need to make your own showpiece good enough for gift giving... although you may decide to keep it for yourself!

This class is for the person that loves to be creative, yet doesn't have the time or patience for doing both the baking and the decorating that is involved with making many homemade treats. In your Cookie Dipping Class we will show you how to take packaged sandwich cookies and make awesome creations. You will be astonished at how easy and fun it is to make an ordinary sandwich cookie into a smiley face, pumpkin, ghost, snowflake or reindeer, to mention just a tiny few. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will show you how to properly prepare your dipping chocolate and how to professionally dip your cookies without leaving fingerprints or flaws. We have tons of decorating ideas using Candy Writers, Accents and Sanding Sugars, for all your party and holiday themes. This is one class you will definitely want to dippity-do!

We take the guess work out of deciding your cookie dough thickness. Using our Dobord™ your cookies will be either 1/4-inch or 1/8-inch thick, every single one. Cookie glazing is the secret of many big cookie businesses, but we show you just how easy and fun it is to start with a perfect depth cookie, how to dam it, flood it and then decorate it with Sanding Sugars, Edible Glitter, Accents, colored icing, Candy Writers or FOODoodlers®. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will show you how to take an ordinary Cookie Cutter and create a masterpiece too good to eat. But don't be silly, after this class you will see how simple it is to just make more.

Do you like the beauty of a decorated cookie but prefer not to add the fat and calories of icing, or don't have the time or patience to color all that frosting? Well Cookie Painting is the answer for you. Easy, fun and oh so fast, you can create all kinds of beautiful cookies just by painting them. We teach you how to use icing gels, as well as all of the supplies you will need, to paint your cookies and shortbreads. The artist in all of us will be in heaven designing edible masterpieces. This makes for a fun "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" class.

Extra special, extra fun. Cookies take new dimension when you put them on a stick. The child in all of us loves the idea of something unique and creative made especially for us. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will teach you all the tricks, and there are many, to using a Cookie Treat Pan. After this class you will be making perfect cookies-on-a-stick. You and your guests decorate your cookies with things like Candy Writers, colored icing, Sanding Sugars, Accents or Edible Glitter. The creative ideas are endless. This is a great class for "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" options. Bring on the dough!

Many people are intimidated by the beauty and perfection of a traditional Spritz cookie. You will learn that these cookies are one of the easiest and tastiest cookies you can possibly bake. Using our Cookie Press, you and your guests will learn how to color cookie dough and the proper use of the Cookie Press. Next you will decorate your Spritz with homemade candied cherries and Sanding Sugars. Fun, easy and delicious! Makes a great "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" class.

Mmm...Does anything taste better than a warm, fresh donut? Wait until you see the delicious ones you can make right in your own oven. Forget about deep frying; not only is it messy and dangerous to do with children, it adds unnecessary fat and calories. Let us show you how to bake Sinfully Cinnamon or Baked Apple Spice Donuts, to name a few. Add one of our glazes or topping ideas, but don't stop there. Get creative with our Accents or Edible Glitter. How fun is that? This makes a great "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" class.

Want an easy and fun way to purchase a gift for the Bride-to-Be? Obtain a Wish List from the Bride and let guests purchase Cake 'n Crumbs items for themselves and the Bride. She will not only receive desired quality bake ware items and specialty gifts from her guests, but she will also receive all the points from her Bridal Shower Class to receive even more gifts, absolutely FREE. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor can discuss class options for the shower attendants. All guests will learn a craft, go home with their own special creations, or leave them behind for the Bride to use as wedding favors. There is little entertainment planning on the Host's part. Ask a Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor for more details.

Ever wonder how candy stores make those awesome looking apples covered with creamy caramel, dipped in an array of chocolate colors, rolled in a multitude of edible confections, then drizzled with more chocolate? Well, learn how to make these confectionery masterpieces in our Gourmet Chocolate Caramel Apple Class. And remember, 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'!

Chocolate-dipped marshmallows are scrumptious, but we'll show you how to make them beautiful and fun. Decorate marshmallows as an apple, pumpkin, firecracker, bunny, chick, Leprechaun, Santa, and so on. Or, just dip in chocolate and coat with our awesome array of colorful Non-pareils and Accents. Don't feel you are creative enough for this one? Don't worry; we will give you details on how to make many fanciful dipped marshmallow creations.

Do you like to entertain with unique and creative ideas? This class offers you just that. Learn how to make edible potpourri that not only tastes wonderful but it smells wonderful, too-just like potpourri. You will be taught how to turn pretzel sticks into tree twigs, Kix® cereal into red or blue berries, corn flakes into leaves and raisins into nuts. That's not all. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will teach you how to combine colored chocolates with complimentary flavorings to make a colorful, flavorful and scented bowl of edible potpourri. We will show you how to use our Cello Bags to package up edible potpourri (to look just like the real stuff) for gift giving.

Root beer, butterscotch, pineapple, cherry; these are just a few of the flavors you can use when we teach you how to make flavored popcorn. A Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor will show you how to not only flavor your popcorn, but, of course, root beer has to be brown-colored and pineapple can't be anything but yellow! Unique and positively yummy, this popcorn is a cross between a caramel corn and a hard candy sucker. Have we got you intrigued yet? This class is for the person who likes to show up with the extra-ordinary treat for the event. Let's start popping!

Did you know we carry special Candy Molds just for decorating pretzel rods? Learn how to properly melt Candy Wafers and Candy Writers to use in our many Pretzel Molds. Decorate them with flowers, dinosaurs, moons & stars, fish or monkeys using our Accents as toppings. We don't stop there. We will also teach you how to make turtle pretzels, Nestle® Crunch pretzels, and caramel apple pretzels. You and your guests will learn how to turn an ordinary pretzel into a spectacular treat. Mount and display your creations in our Pretzel Boxes for a professional-looking gift.

Say good-bye to plain old krispy treats and hello to Krispy Treats-on-a-Stick. Turn an ordinary krispy treat into a bunny, chick, Santa, Leprechaun, flag or pumpkin, just for starters. We will show you how, step-by-step. It's guaranteed to satisfy "children" of all ages.

Not quite a cake, not quite a cookie-these fancy French pastries are something in-between. Serving them with tea has been the rage for decades. You can find them in catalogs for $20.00 per pound. That is more than the cost of our Small Madeleine Mold itself. With that, you can make as many as you wish for just pennies a teacake. We teach you how to make simply elegant Madeleines by dusting them with powdered sugar, sprinkling them with cinnamon sugar, drizzling them with Candy Writers or dipping them in chocolate. Make a sophisticated treat that is a dessert sensation.

These classes are modified to entertain children five and older while under the supervision and guidance of mom or another adult. Almost all of our classes can be designated as a "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" class, yet we have suggestions for those that have been successful in bringing smiles and giggles from child and adult alike. A few that are recommended are: 3-D Cookies, Baked Donut, Chocolate Molding, Cookie Painting, Cookies-on-a-Stick or Spritz Cookies. Ask a Cake 'n Crumbs Instructor about their personal age and class recommendations, for your choice of a "Mommy & Me" or "Adult & Child" class. Let the party begin!

No more dunking ordinary cookies in your coffee, milk or hot chocolate. Make your cookie useful by using our shortbread spoons to stir your beverages first, before you take that first mouth-watering bite. Shortbread is rich, buttery, and, oh, so delicious. We will teach you how to mold shortbread in our special Shortbread Spoon Mold. Next we will give you many ideas for decorating your shortbread spoons with chocolate lay-ons, Accents and Candy Writers, plus, show you chocolate-dipping and flavoring techniques. Ideas for these unique little delectables are endless.