Classes at America’s Biggest Cupcake Decorating Event, the Fort Lauderdale Edition, from Charm City Cupcakes (Half Off). Four Options Available.

Traces of buttercream and vanilla scent the air as Charm City Cupcakes sweetens and sprinkles American cities during its countrywide tour, spreading techniques honed in its Baltimore home bakery to gaggles of pastry aficionados. During a slate of specialty classes, cupcake artisans slather baby cakes with mouthwatering buttercream, creating cupcake borders and iced flowers without having to fertilize regular flowers with milk and butter. Courses for fledgling decorators instill the basics of decorating bags and couplers while teaching how to use adornment tools such as the star and round icing tips. Meanwhile, classes geared toward families harness simple tools and dazzling candies, combining the efforts of parents and children for age-appropriate cupcake study. Each participant totes their beautified bounties home with them at the end of each session.

Choose from Four Options:

• $50 for a Decorating 101 class at 9:30 a.m. on March 17, 2012 (a $100 value)
• $50 for a Decorating 101 class at 1 p.m. on March 17 (a $100 value)
• $50 for a Ladies’ Night Out decorating class at 6 p.m. on March 17 (a $100 value)
• $60 for a Family Fun decorating event at 3:30 p.m. on March 17 (a $120 value)

Before cupcake pans, personalized dessert portions were made by baking full-size cakes and shrinking them in the dryer. Skip extra steps with this Groupon.