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Online Cake Baking & Cake Decorating School

Cake Baking | Buttercream Cake Decorating | Chocolate Cream Cake Decorating 

What we teach... 

✅ How to make Stable Buttercream

✅ Buttercream Flower Piping

✅ Buttercream Palette Knife Painting

✅ Buttercream Sculptural Art

✅ Chocolate Cream Sculptural Art

✅ How to make Moist Cakes and Cupcakes

✅ How to Prepare Cakes for Decoration

✅ How to Create Tiered Cakes Designs

✅ How to Decorate Cakes Easily like a Pro

✅ Create Signature Cakes with your own unique style 

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Online Cake Baking & Cake Decorating School

Cake Baking | Buttercream Cake Decorating | Chocolate Cream Cake Decorating 

What we teach... 

✅ How to make Stable Buttercream

✅ Buttercream Flower Piping

✅ Buttercream Palette Knife Painting

✅ Buttercream Sculptural Art

✅ Chocolate Cream Sculptural Art

✅ How to make Moist Cakes and Cupcakes

✅ How to Prepare Cakes for Decoration

✅ How to Create Tiered Cakes Designs

✅ How to Decorate Cakes Easily like a Pro

✅ Create Signature Cakes with your own unique style 

Buttercream Petals - Online Cake Decorating School
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Learn Cake Decorating from a Multi-Award Winning Artist

Master the Art of Stunning Cakes

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Neetha Syam's Awards & Features
2025 - Flower Artist of the Year Finalist
2025 - Buttercream Artist of the Year
Neetha is a Cake International Winner, Birmingham 2017 for tasted cake category
Neetha is a Salon Culinaire Winner, Birmingham for tasted cake category
Featured in Cake Masters
Featured in Cake Masters
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Learn Cake Decorating from a Multi-Award Winning Artist

Master the Art of Stunning Cakes

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Neetha Syam's Awards & Features
2025 - Flower Artist of the Year Finalist
2025 - Buttercream Artist of the Year
2017 - Cake International Winner
Neetha Syam - Buttercream Petals

Hello!

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I'm Neetha.

A cake artist, writer and teacher dedicated in helping you become the amazing Cake Artist that you are meant to be!

From our Award Winning Cake and Buttercream Recipes to Buttercream Flower Piping, Buttercream Palette Knife Painting, Buttercream Stained Glass techniques, Chocolate Painting Art and Cake Business Coaching… Let me share with you everything I know in this site, ‘step by step’, so you can create Signature Flower Buttercream Cakes that will stand out from the crowd!

"Welcome to my artsy buttery world! To have you here is my greatest happiness!"

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"I love Buttercream Petals Online School as it means I can learn at my own pace and fit around my kids and life. The videos are easy to follow and I’ve picked up so many new-found techniques as well as the amazing buttercream recipes which enables me to pipe & paint some beautiful blooms. Neetha is only ever a message away and is very supportive."

Lorraine Lockwood, UK

Buttercream Petals Masterclass Student
Buttercream Petals Masterclass Student

"Piping flowers and covering the cake with buttercream is so much easier with Signature Buttercream recipe! It is by far the best buttercream recipe I have ever tried! The online classes are so elaborate that Neetha makes sure no details are missed out! Neetha is also so quick to respond and support me throughout this learning process.  Highly recommend the Online School."

Preeti Amit, India 

Transform Your Cakes like our Students 

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JOIN one of my Online Courses to TRANSFORM Your Cake Skills!

Buttercream Petals Masterclass

BUTTERCREAM PETALS 

MASTERCLASS

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✅ Learn our Award Winning Signature Buttercream Recipe which is Glossy, Stable & Not too sweet Vegetarian

✅ Learn our Unique, Stable, Vegetarian - Classic Buttercream Recipe

✅  Learn all about Preparing the Cake -  Cutting the Cake, Layering the Cake, Crumb Coating and Covering the Cake using Buttercream.

✅  Learn Tiering the Cakes - including Assembling, Crumb Coating & Covering the cake

✅ Learn Preparing Piping Bags, Buttercream Colouring - Two tone & three Tone Colouring

✅ Learn Colour Theory to Design your custom Cakes

✅  Learn Flexing your Petal Piping Muscles and pipe 25 Different Flowers

✅ Learn Flexing your Petal Painting Muscles for painting flat and 3D Flowers using Palette Knives

✅  Learn and over 10 Unique Cake Design Projects - including Flower Piping, Palette Knife Painting, Stained Glass Painting, Carved Pot Cake, 2 x Wedding Cakes & Cupcake Bouquet

✅ First 6 weeks of course - Neetha guide you in Private Students Group 

✅  Science of Baking, Cake Business Coaching & Mobile Phone Photography Courses as Bonus

✅  Lifetime Access & Life time Support from Neetha

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Chocolate Painting Masterclass

CHOCOLATE PAINTING

 MASTERCLASS

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✅ Learn our SIGNATURE CHOCOLATE CREAM Recipes - perfect for Palette Knife Painting

✅ Learn to make SIGNATURE CHOCOLATE CREAM using Couverture Chocolate or Compound Chocolate

✅  Learn the basics of Tempering Chocolate to make the medium pliable for painting and create your own art

✅  Learn to Colour Chocolate Cream without the chocolate seizing & achieve a stable medium to work with

✅ Learn the basics of Palette Knife Painting using Chocolate Cream

✅ Learn How to Fill, Crumb Coat & Cover a ROUND CAKE using Chocolate Cream

✅ Learn How to Fill, Crumb Coat & Cover a SQUARE CAKE using Chocolate Cream

✅ Learn to Paint Chrysanthemum Flowers using Palette Knife & Chocolate Cream and Assemble on Cake

✅ Learn to Paint Ruffled Flowers using Palette Knife & Chocolate Cream and Assemble on Cake

✅ Learn to Paint Roses & Buds using Palette Knife & Chocolate Cream and Assemble on Cake

✅ Learn to make a Peony Candle Cake using Chocolate Cream

✅  Lifetime Access & Life time Support from Neetha

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Flower Piping Course

PALETTE KNIFE PAINTING COURSE

MINI COURSE

✅  Learn our Unique, Stable, Vegetarian - Classic Buttercream Recipe

✅  Learn all about Preparing the Cake -   Crumb Coating and Covering the Cake using Buttercream & Sketching Design on Cake

✅ Learn to Paint Roses and Chrysanthemums

✅ Learn to Paint on Top of the Cake

✅ BONUS - Learn to Paint on Side of the Cake 

✅ Support from Neetha via emails.

✅ One Year Access

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Flower Piping Course

FLOWER PIPING COURSE

MINI COURSE

✅  Learn our Unique, Stable, Vegetarian - Classic Buttercream Recipe

✅  Learn all about Preparing the Cake -  Cutting the Cake, Layering the Cake, Crumb Coating and Covering the Cake using Buttercream.

✅ Learn to Pipe 6 different Flowers from Easy to Intermediate to Advanced levels. 

✅ Assemble and Decorate a Full Cake from scratch.

✅ Support from Neetha via emails.

✅ One Year Access

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Flower Piping Course

SCIENCE OF BAKING

MINI COURSE

✅  Learn our Award Winning Cake & Cupcake - with Eggs and Eggless Recipes

✅  Bake the Perfect Moist Cake & Cupcakes with melt in the mouth texture

✅ Learn how to Avoid Sunken Middles, Domed Cakes while Baking - learn the SCIENCE 

✅ Learn Cake Flavour Variations  - Vanilla, Chocolate, Marble, Berry, Chocolate Chip etc & Recipe Booklet

✅ Support from Neetha via emails.

✅ One Year Access

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Buttercream Petals Student

Riya, India

Having completed the Buttercream Petals course, I sell many floral cakes now; both piped and painted. I am totally satisfied with this course.

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Musliha Yoosuf, Maldives

I joined the course in 2017, but she is still there to assist me if I have any queries. Thank you so much Neetha for continuing to support me!

Arlene Gomez, Qatar

Once I enrolled, the first thing I tried was the Signature Buttercream recipe, Walla! I can’t believe it, it’s like magic! I can pipe beautiful flowers right away without difficulty. The Buttercream is very stable and so tasty! 

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Nina Babbage, UK

The signature buttercream tastes amazing, unlike any other buttercream I have tasted and is beautifully pipe-able. Neetha is a great teacher, patient with an amazing style of teaching.

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Taruna Dineshkumar,India

"I didn't have a good eggless buttercream recipe and mine always melted, especially in Indian weather. Since joining Online School, I learned the tricks to make stable buttercream and learned to pipe more than 30 different flowers, all within a month of enrolling in Online School! 

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Aneeldeep Kaur, UK

 My biggest takeaway from this course is the skill to make smooth and glossy buttercream, mixing amazing colours, covering cake perfectly and making buttercream flowers. Signature buttercream is fantastic.

Buttercream Petals Student

Seema Arora, India

Since attending the Online School, from being a full time Mathematics teacher, I have now made the career change to a professional baker 🙂

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Rashila Pithadia,UK

Learning basics like making the perfect signature buttercream, baking tips, smoothing cake and piping various flowers, has really transformed my skills and made me confident in my abilities.

Paapillon, Sija, UAE

 I started receiving requests from friends if I would sell the gorgeous cakes I learned in the Online School!  Within just one month of enrolling, I have started my home baking business and I am selling with confidence now!

Shifa Fathima, UAE

The lifetime access is great which means I can learn in a pace that suits me. Neetha is always there to support me, replying to all my queries.

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Indulekha Menon, India

Buttercream Petals Online School is all you need to be a pro! Each and every session in the Online School is planned in such a way that it considered all the queries one can have. 

Hagar, Ghana

I am 61 years old with a dream to start my little bakery in Ghana after retirement. I have learned so much in the Online School both baking and buttercream cake decorating.

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Pooja, UK

Coming from a background with no cake baking/decorating experience, I have learned an amazing amount of information on how to make beautiful cakes. This course has improved my confidence in cake decorating as I begin my new career in baking field.

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Most Popular Cake Decoration

This particular 'Hydrangea Cake' design was posted on my Instagram profile a few months back and I am truly shocked by the love it has received. It is one of my most played reels with over 1.6 million views 😮 I am speechless!

Hydrangea Cake

How to make Hydrangea Cake - Video Tutorial

Hydrangea Cake

How to make Hydrangea Cake - Video Tutorial

Most Popular Recipe

Here's my Pistachio Rose Sponge Cake Recipe.

This gorgeous cake not only tastes great but smells divine too! The aroma of the dried rose petals with the nutty flavour of pistachio works wonders in this delicate Pistachio-Rose Sponge Cake! Hands down, this is one of my favourite Cake Recipes of all time!

Pistachio Rose Sponge Cake

Pistachio Rose Sponge Cake Recipe

 

Pistachio Rose Sponge Cake

Pistachio Rose Sponge Cake Recipe

Most Popular on Youtube

Covering a dummy cake with Buttercream is not the easiest if you don't know the exact steps. I am detailing the process in this video- check it out

Covering a Dummy Cake

Covering a Dummy Cake with Buttercream

Covering a Dummy Cake

Covering a Dummy Cake with Buttercream

Buttercream Petals' Book

Published by Search Press

Learn how to create a multitude of flowers (Piped & Painted) and decorate ten glorious cakes. 

Buttercream Petals Book is available worldwide in all major bookstores and Amazon. 

 

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Little Petals

Being the Change...

Introducing Little Petals...

We, at Buttercream Petals, believe in being the change that we would want to see in this world.

We support the educational needs of children, domestically & abroad, as monthly contributions towards their school/college fees, funding for food, and accommodation charges. 

Since 2016, 10% of Buttercream Petals profits go to 'Little Petals' fund.

Our vision and hope is that as Buttercream Petals grows, Little Petals grows as well, enabling us to provide support to more children in need. 

It all starts with you, Thank you for being here :)

Team Buttercream Petals