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Birthday Cake Decorating Class

Create a colorful celebration cake in this fun, hands-on decorating class! Learn to work with buttercream and piping bags while practicing borders, swirls, stars, and other decorative techniques. Add sprinkles and festive details to personalize your design, then take your finished cake home to enjoy and share. No previous experience is required.

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  • 118 W 22nd St, New York, NY
  • 90 minutes

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Fri. Oct 23, 2026, 2:30pm ET


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Description

Come decorate the ultimate celebration cake at NY Cake Academy® in Chelsea NYC!

In this fun, hands-on 1.5-hour cake decorating class, you'll transform a prepared cake into a colorful birthday masterpiece. Learn decorating techniques from one of our chefs while creating the cheerful celebration cake pictured above.

You'll work with colorful buttercream and piping bags to learn different piping techniques, borders, swirls, stars and decorative details. Add colorful sprinkles and festive finishing touches to make your cake celebration-ready.

Best of all—you'll take your finished cake home to enjoy and share!

What You'll Learn

  • How to work with buttercream and piping bags
  • Different piping tips and techniques
  • Birthday cake borders and decorative piping
  • How to combine colors and designs
  • How to add sprinkles and finishing details
  • Tips for creating a polished celebration cake

What's Included

Your cake is prepared and ready for decorating when you arrive. We provide the buttercream, decorating tools, piping bags, tips, sprinkles and decorations needed during class.

Each student decorates their own cake and takes it home.

Class Length: 1.5 Hours

Location: NY Cake Academy®, Chelsea NYC

Experience Level: Beginner-friendly

Format: Hands-on cake decorating

No previous cake decorating experience is necessary.

Important Class Information

Please arrive 5–10 minutes before class. Closed-toe shoes are required and long hair should be tied back.

Due to the preparation required for each class, advance reservations are required. No walk-ins or walk-in makeup sessions are permitted.

School Notes: Please note, if you require a gluten free option for your baking class, you must alert the school in advance and there will be a +$15 fee applied for each gluten free substitute which will be collected directly by the school. Please contact them or CourseHorse to arrange this.

Refund Policy

Classes are not eligible for refunds, however classes are transferable.

  • Students may reschedule their class to an alternative date up to 4 business days prior to the class date for in-person classes.
  • All deposits & fees are forfeited for no shows.
  • We do not provide make-up classes.

The school reserve the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment up to 48 hours before the class date. The school reserve the right to change class schedules. If for any reason the school should cancel a class, a full refund will be offered to the student. However, we do not accept responsibility for any other expenses incurred such as hotel or airline cancellation penalties.

Cancellations or changes can be made through email at [email protected]. Please be sure to include the full name of the registered student, and class registration confirmation.

If a class is cancelled due to inclement weather, or other circumstance beyond our control (facility issues, power outages, etc.), we will contact you with as much advanced notice as possible by email or telephone, and issue you a refund to the original form of payment. We will make every effort to run the class as long as it is safe to do so. If we make the decision to run a class during inclement weather and you make the decision not to come, you will not be able to get a refund, we will offer only a credit for future use.

Credits are valid for a 12 month period of time.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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