Vanessa Benoit, owner and baker at The Chocolate Rose, installs a dessert table for an event. Photo courtesy The Chocolate Rose.
Vanessa Benoit demonstrates how to smooth the icing on a cake before decorating and how to create designs using buttercream.
A student in an Art of the Cake class tries her hand at forming rosettes.
Cleaning up as you go is an important lesson learned in the class.
Teal Ruffles Cake, Boston Cream Tortes, French Macaron Tower.
A trio of Benoit’s creations