MAY 3, 2025: Botanical Cake Design 101
$150.00
TICKETS ARE FINAL SALE, NON-REFUNDABLE, and NON-TRANSFERABLE TO OTHER CLASSES.
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 12pm - 4pm
Cost: $150 per person
PLEASE READ ALL CLASS POLICIES AT THE BOTTOM OF CLASS DESCRIPTION BEFORE MAKING YOUR PURCHASE.
Wildflower season is in full swing! Come join us for a cake design masterclass focused on native botanicals, natural dyes, and more. You’ll learn how to build, stack, and decorate a 6 inch round cake and show off the edible wonders of Central Texas to your loved ones. Whether you’re looking to improve your cake decorating skills or just starting out in the world of cake design, this class is for you!
Pastry chef and forager, Ariana Diaz will guide you through a four hour creative crash course on cake design techniques as well as provide foraging education focused on edible native plants & their boundless medicinal uses. We'll cover various piping techniques, a few medicinal infusions for fillings and buttercreams, as well as floral design basics tailored to cake decoration. If you want to learn more about the art and resistance of botanical knowledge, join us for a pastry and science lesson in one!
You will choose your flavors and color palettes from botanical infusions for your buttercream and filling to be. We will stack and fill pre-made 6 imch cake sponges, learn how to crumb coat, and finish off with a native plant decoration demo. All knowledge will be rooted in the indigenous history and preservation techniques rooted across Tonkawan, Jumanos, Lipan Apache, Karankawan, and Coahuiltecan lands.
No fake dyes, plastic trinkets, or non edible sparkles here! This class will help us transition from chemically intense and environmentally harmful food practices one flower at a time.
Things to look forward to:
- Have an opportunity to work with our own fresh flours, stone-ground right here at Barton Springs Mill
- Learn about native plant knowledge and medicinal uses rooted in indigenous history
- Tips for safely foraging in urban and rural environments
- Take home a pamphlet filled with native plant knowledge
- Learn how to master elevated cake design techniques with a pastry chef
- Enjoy slices baked by Ariana and take home a layer cake to share!
- Tour the mill with our Education team
- Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount
BYOB is fine by us for participants 21+ 🥂
About your instructor Ariana Diaz:
Ariana Diaz is a local baker and pastry chef at Este. She highlights her family origins and climate consciousness through a small scale cake business focused on locally foraged botanicals, Mexican flavors, and Jewish baking traditions. Ariana’s work is rooted in years of food access organizing and garden-to-table creations featuring local growing spaces such as the Festival Beach Food Forest, Nixta Taqueria Garden, and Urban Roots Farm. You can find Ariana vending across town through a mutual-aid focused pop up called Sana Sana Bake Club or teaching classes to the next generation of citizen scientists!
Class Policies:
TICKETS ARE FINAL SALE, NON-REFUNDABLE, and NON-TRANSFERABLE TO OTHER CLASSES. You may transfer tickets to another person to attend in your place - simply have them check in under the original name used to purchase the ticket(s).
By purchasing tickets to attend one of our classes, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release.
Touring our facility requires that all participants adhere to health guidelines - all touring participants (included in ticket) will be required to remove most jewelry and piercings, and wear a beard net (if applicable) and hair net that effectively restraints all hair, including mustaches, goatees, and any other facial hair. Close-toed shoes are required for entering any part of our facility. No exceptions.
In keeping with the low COVID risk level in Travis County, masks are optional and up to personal discretion for this class.
In the event of class cancellation, we will email you to notify you of a canceled class.