Burn Away Vintage Heart Cake

Vintage Heart Wafer Burn-Away Cake

Create a showstopping vintage heart cake with an unforgettable reveal! In this hands-on class, you’ll cut, stack, and shape a round cake into a beautiful heart. You’ll then cover it in smooth buttercream and decorate it with classic vintage piping, including ruffles, shell borders, and delicate details.

For the finishing touch, you’ll add a burn-away wafer-paper topper with a coordinating edible image hidden underneath. When the wafer paper is carefully lit, it burns away to reveal the surprise design below.

Choose from three wafer-paper and edible-image combinations:

• Calendar/Celebration theme
• Halloween theme
• Fall theme

What You’ll Learn:

• How to cut, stack, and shape a round cake into a clean heart
• Crumb coating and smooth buttercream finishing
• Vintage piping techniques, including ruffles and shell borders
• How to select and combine colors for a vintage-style palette
• How to prepare and place wafer paper with an edible image underneath
• How to create the burn-away reveal safely
• Safety tips for lighting, presenting, and serving your cake

Skill Level: Beginner. No previous cake-decorating experience is required. Beginners and hobby bakers are welcome!

What’s Included: All ingredients, materials, printed wafer paper, edible images, decorating tools, an apron, and a take-home box for your finished cake.

Details:

• 6 hours | $175 per person
• Maximum of 8 students
• Format: Live demonstration followed by hands-on guidance as you create your own cake
• What to wear: Closed-toe shoes and hair tied back; apron provided
• Refunds or rescheduling are available up to 48 hours before class
• Great to attend solo or with a friend—come for the skills and stay for the fun!

All classes are booked on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to our class policies.

Age Requirements: The minimum age for this class is 16 years old.

Breaks: Students will be given a 30-minute break halfway through the class. We encourage students to bring their own lunch.

Registration Gift Card Bonuses:

• Register 30 days in advance and receive a $10 gift card
• Register yourself and a friend and receive an additional $10 gift card
• Please note: all gift cards will be received on the day of class

Photographs — permissible and encouraged for social sharing. However, students sharing class material or step-by-step illustrations will not be permitted in future classes.

Videotaping — prohibited.

INSTRUCTOR: Fabiola Vidal

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fabiola is a talented cake artist with an admirable passion for all things cake! Her first encounter with baking was when she volunteered to make her best friend’s wedding cake and after spending 14 hours on it, she fell completely in love with the art of cake decorating.

Inspired by this experience, she enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Orlando, from which she graduated with Honors in the pastry and baking program. Her hunger for more knowledge led her to continue her studies at The Notter School of Pastry Arts. Here, she was taught by world-class chefs and artists, including Cake Artists Marina Sousa and Colette Peters, and Sugar Artist & Master Chocolatier Ewald Notter.

Upon graduation, she was quickly hired by Ritz Carlton of Orlando, where she dove right into the world of pastry arts. She moved on to her dream job: making wedding cakes for Disney World at the Grand Floridian, where she currently remains. Here, she is the Chef's Assistant overseeing the production of all cakes in the celebration department.

She is excited to join the eclectic and talented group of instructors at The Confectionery Academy and share her skills and love of cake art.

To view some of her beautiful work, please visit her Instagram page @powderedbuns_cakes.