One-on-one private classes:
These unique offerings are customized, by Carmen,
to ensure the material addresses your needs while inspiring your love of decorating.
Every student will leave with greater skills, execution, and understanding of the art of sugar.
Whether a beginner or advanced cookier.
Carmen is sure to leave you with innovative techniques that will elevate your skills
and leave a you more confident, and refined, cookie artist.
Advantages of Carmen’s individual classes:
- No rush.
- Time is not wasted on things you already know.
- Focus on the areas you need most.
- Ten years of instruction dedicated to bettering your skills.
- No fear of what others think…it’s just you and Carmen!
- Ask anything you want – this is YOUR time!
Beginner’s Cookie Decorating Class
$525
This three hours private class introduces you and up to three of your friends to the art of cookie decorating!
Learn the basic skills to be a Cookie Designer/Artist.
- We will learn the basics of royal icing consistencies and how to bake the perfect no spread sugar cookie. (The class includes three different sugar cookies print recipes).
- Tips on how to roll dough and cut out shapes to achieve crisp edges, a flat surface, no spreading, and even thickness.
- How to make royal icing, to mix and color it, different consistencies and the best way to pipping, outline and flood cookies like a pro!
- Includes tips to achieve that “shiny and puffy” icing! With my special recipe of dimensional royal icing.
We will decorate six pre-baked cookies. (We will work together beforehand and discuss a suitable customized theme).
- Tools and materials will be provided for class use.
- Special Sprinkles Surprise included!
- We will decorate a set of four to six pre-baked cookies (We will discuss it beforehand to customize theme or pick one of my previous designed cookies).
Intermediate Cookie Decorating Class
$525
These four to five hours private class introduces you and up to three of your friends to more techniques in the art of cookie decorating!
- We will talk about tips on dough and royal icing.
- Time wise, you can choose to learn from some of the following techniques:
- Quilted effect.
- Borders.
- Wet on wet.
- Intro to basic painting.
- Dimensional icing.
- Textures: You can choose to create cookie moss, brush embroidery, wood effect, crackle effect.
- Includes a copy of my three special recipes of sugar cookies and three royal icing recipes including my dimensional royal icing recipe.
- Tools and materials will be provided for class use.
- Special gift included.
Advanced Master Cookie Decorating Class
$925
These six to eight hours private class introduces you and up to three of your friends to advanced techniques in the art of cookie decorating!
- We will decorate one or two large cookies from 7.5 to 11 inches. We will work together beforehand and discuss a suitable customized theme. (Typically, a character will be teaching in this classes, as my style is defined for my expressive eyes painting technique and my tridimensional royal icing effect).
- Learn from some of the following advanced techniques:
- Pressure piping skills to create volume and layer by layer technique.
- Advanced painting on flat and dimensional royal icing: How to paint faces, create shadows and depth like a pro using different brands of food colors and edible solvents. Alcohol, glycerin and water… pros, cons and use.
- Do’s and don’ts in painting faces and eye expression on royal icing.
- How to embellish your cookies using advanced textures and dimension with the possible following techniques: Wafer paper, edible fabric, edible lace, modeling royal icing, gum paste and fondant.
- Tridimensional Cookies.
- Includes a copy of my special recipe book (digital file) with ten cut–out cookie recipes as chocolate, gingerbread, roses, orange, almond, sugar cookies and more.
- Royal Icing recipes included.
- Tools and materials will be provided for class use.
- This class includes a special gift for each student!
Cookie Decorating Parties
Carmen is available for Cookie Decorating Parties. Prices are for parties held in Chula Vista and San Diego area, Tijuana B.C México included. Please inquire for travel fees to outer San Diego boroughs, Tijuana and Chula Vista.
Cookie decorating party workshop
$700
This two hour workshop includes you and up to seven of your friends for a fun cookie decorating party! You can add guests, space permitting, for an additional $65.00 per person.
- We will decorate a set of pre-baked cookies. (We will work together beforehand and discuss a suitable customized theme).
- How to outline and flood cookies like a pro!
- We will incorporate some techniques of the beginner’s class.
- Includes a copy of my sugar cookie and royal icing recipe.
- Tools and materials will be provided for class use.
Private class policy and Faq's
How do I book a Private Class or Party?
Please email me at: [email protected] to schedule a private class.
Payment Policy
Once you have scheduled a private class or party and I have accepted the date, I will send you an invoice. You have 48 hours to pay the invoice in full in order to secure your date. Invoices NOT paid within this time frame are subject to cancellation without notification. Your class is NOT secure until FULL PAYMENT is made.
What if I need to cancel?
Refunds are issued up to 15 days ONLY for private classes and parties. NO REFUNDS are given for cancellations with less than 15 days’ notice.
Prices are in US currency, to inquire about payments in Pesos (Mexican currency) please contact to: [email protected]
