Meet your Hosts

is an award-winning cake artist, tutor and innovator, known for her creative carving skills, flawless finishes and passion for helping others grow in confidence. With years of experience in both teaching and product development, Dawn has inspired cake makers around the world through her warm, down-to-earth approach and expert guidance. In The Most Fabulous Vase, Dawn leads the journey by sharing her signature techniques for carving, ganaching, smoothing and seamless covering, while also stepping into the role of student as she learns alongside her talented cake friends. 

Suzanne Esper - Sugar Flowers

Suzanne Esper is an award-winning cake artist and tutor, best known for her elegant sugar flowers, modern cake design, and her ability to teach beautiful floral techniques in a clear and confidence-boosting way.

Emily Hankins - Hand Painting

Emily Hankins is a UK-based cake artist and designer, known for her beautifully unique hand-painted wedding cakes and her signature floral style created using cocoa butter paint. Widely regarded as one of the world's leading cake painting specialists. 

Laura Lane - Baking 

Laura Lane is one half of "Esper Lane" and an award-winning baker and tutor, celebrated for her exceptional flavour combinations, flawless finishes, and the expert baking skills that bring beautiful cake designs to life from the inside out.

Course Highlights 

Expert Carving and Structure

Learn how to plan, structure and carve an elegant vase-shaped cake with confidence. Dawn takes you step by step through carving, ganaching, smoothing and seamlessly covering an unusual shape with modelling chocolate for a flawless professional finish.

Beautiful Hand-painted Detail 

Discover how to create stunning floral artwork using cocoa butter paint with Emily Hankins. From planning the design to layering colour, highlights and shading, you’ll learn how each brushstroke works together to bring the vase to life.

Award-Winning Flowers & Flavour

Take your cake from beautiful to breathtaking with Suzanne’s lifelike sugar irises and Laura’s expertly taught baking recipes. You’ll learn how to create, paint and arrange stunning sugar flowers, alongside delicious cake, curd and buttercream that taste every bit as impressive as they look.

Curriculum

6 Chapters · 41 Lessons

  1. 1

    making the vase

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Introduction and structure

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      assembling the kit

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      adding Rice Krispy Treats

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      carving RKT

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      adding cake

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      adding to the shape

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      final carve

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      ganache

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      making a ganache template

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      adjusting the shape

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      adding to the top and bottom

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      covering

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      trimming

  2. 2

    But we can't just leave it plain......

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      More planning ........

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      heating the join

  3. 3

    Painting with cocoa Butter

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      What is cocoa butter painting?

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      painting part 1

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      painting part 2

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      painting part 3

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      painting part 3

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      painting part 4

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      painting part 5

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      painting part 6

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      painting part 7

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      painting part 8

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      Hand Painting - Finishing touches

  4. 4

    Before it goes off up to Scotland

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      covering the board

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      packing it for transport up to Scotland

  5. 5

    Baking a tasty carving cake!

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Introduction to Esper Lane

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Baking the cake

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      making Curd

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Making buttercream

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      splitting and filling

  6. 6

    sugar Iris

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      iris part 1

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      Iris part 2

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      Iris part 3

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      Iris part 4

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      Iris part 5

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      final finishing touches

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      cleaning marks off the vase

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      securing flowers

BONUS FEATURES 

FREE KIT FOR PRE - ORDERING THIS CLASS 

Pre - order this class BEFORE the 1st of APRIL  and get the vase structure kit for FREE  * just pay the postage

DISCOUNT - FOR PRE ORDERING  THIS CLASS 

Pre - order this class BEFORE it's release on the 5th of APRIL and get a whopping £49.50 OFF THE COURSE FEE ( plus the free bonus kit if purchased before the 1st of April) 

BONUS LESSONS - COMING SOON 

Now that Dawn has come home from Scotland with a wonderful cake from Laura, she we re cave a different shaped vase, ganache and cover it AND using her NEW skills, will see if she can hand paint it, and make sugar flowers all on her own! ( to be filmed soon and will added to the class) 

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