Private Cake-Decorating Lessons in Portland

Learn the cake-decorating skills you want to master with personalized, hands-on instruction at Cake Hoopla in Tigard. Private lessons are customized to your skill level and goals, whether you're decorating your first cake or ready to tackle more advanced techniques.

Personalized instruction • Kids & adults • Beginners welcome • Cakes or cupcakes • Tigard, near Portland

How private lessons work

  • 1. Choose Your Lesson Time

    Select an available lesson time that works for you and pay a $75 deposit. Don’t see one? Submit a request, and we’ll check for additional instructor availability.

  • 2. Tell Us What You Want to Learn

    Share your experience level, decorating goals, and any techniques or designs you’d like to work on.

  • 3. We’ll Customize Your Lesson

    We’ll plan a hands-on lesson around your goals and have the cakes or cupcakes, frosting, tools, and decorating supplies ready when you arrive.

  • 4. Come Decorate!

    Get personalized, hands-on instruction as you practice new skills and create your cake or cupcakes to take home.

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What do you want to learn?

Every private lesson is different. Tell us what you’d like to learn, and we’ll tailor your lesson to your goals and experience level.

  • A couple works on frosting a cake together with blue frosting over a white cake.

    Stacking, filling & frosting

    Learn the fundamentals of assembling and finishing a beautiful cake.

  • Vintage heart-shaped cake with green and purple icing on a white turn table created by a student at Cake Hoopla's cake-decorating class.

    Buttercream piping

    Practice piping techniques, borders, writing, rosettes, and more.

  • Woman shows off pink buttercream rose on frosting nail at Cake Hoopla in Tigard, near Portland.

    Buttercream flowers

    Learn to pipe beautiful flowers and leaves with buttercream.

  • A cake decorated with red fondant shaped into a crab, yellow fondant shaped into a fish, and green fondant icing to represent seaweed, part of a cake decorating workshop.

    Fondant techniques

    Learn how to roll, shape, cut, and use fondant to create decorations.

  • A girl shows off the cake she decorated with pallet knife flowers and frosting at Cake Hoopla in Tigard, Oregon near Portland.

    A design you love

    Share a inspiration photo or tell us what you want to create, and we'll customize your lesson around it.

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Lesson Pricing

Private lessons start at $75 per hour, plus $50 per person with a cake to decorate and take home or 6 cupcakes to decorate and take home.

We’ll customize your lesson based on the length, number and skill level of participants, and techniques you’d like to learn. More complex designs or techniques may increase the price.

Cancellation Policy

Your booking can be canceled up to 5 days before the event. If you need to cancel your booking with less than 5 days' notice, you will be issued an electronic gift card equal to the price of your booking. No-shows will not be refunded.

Email hey@cakehoopla.com to cancel or reschedule your booking.

Deposit & Payment

Book your private lesson with a $75 deposit. The $75 is a deposit only, not the full price of the lesson, and will be applied toward your total. You’ll pay the remaining balance in the studio after your lesson.

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Don't see a lesson time that works?

Our instructors may have additional availability beyond the times shown online. Tell us when you’d like to come, and we’ll check our instructors’ schedules.

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