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Baking & Cake Decorating workshops

 

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Flexible Payment Plans  

Hackney Training Enterprise Associates  (HTEA) provides affordable courses and workshops for the local community.​ Below is  the list of the next available workshops  If you would like to book complete an booking form and email it to Htea@live.co.uk  or contact us on  020 7249 4542

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Baking , Basic & Advanced Cake Decorating  (8 weeks)

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Baking & Basic Cake Decorating

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Dates:        TBC  (Saturdays)

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 Advanced Cake Decorating

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Dates:       TBC

                 Tuesdays ( 6-9pm)

             

Cost:        £480*(24 hrs)

 

Venue:      Unit 24-25, The Forum,

                  Independent Place,

                  Shacklewell Lane, Hackney                                        London. E8 2HE

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This workshop introduces you to the art of baking & cake decorating and will:

 

  • Build your confidence by preparing delicious cakes

  • Work out what went wrong with your cake?

  • Teach you about kitchen / food hygiene

  • Introduction to cake covering

  • The coloring of sugar paste

  • How to prepare butter cream and use simple piping strokes

  • Simple cake toppers

  • How to package  sell your cakes

  • Introduction to textured designs

  • Sugar paste/ gum paste flowers

  • Drapes and boarders

  • Cut outs and cake toppers

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(The fee includes all cakes, materials and the use of equipment)*

Basic & Advanced Cake Decorating (8 Weeks)

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Basic Cake Decorating

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Dates:       TBC (Thursday ) 8hrs 

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Advanced Cake Decorating

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 Dates:      TBC

                  Tuesdays   (6-9pm) 12hrs

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Cost:          £380* (20 hrs)

 

Venue:       Unit 24-25, The Forum,

                  Independent Place,

                  Shacklewell Lane,

                  Hackney, London. E8 2HE

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Course aim: Students will gain knowledge and skills that will enable them to decorate cakes using sugar paste & butter cream while learning the following:

 

  • Introduction to cake covering

  • The colouring of sugar paste

  • How to prepare butter cream and use simple piping strokes

  • Simple cake toppers

  • Introduction to textured designs

  • Sugar paste/ Gum paste flowers

  • Drapes and boarders

  • Cut outs and cake toppers

  • How to package and sell your cakes

 

(*The fee includes all cakes, materials and the use of equipment)

Wedding, Stack Cakes  &  Gum paste Flowers  (6 weeks)

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Wedding & Stack Cakes

 

Dates:       TBC

                  

 

 

Advanced Cake Decorating

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Dates:       TBC

                  

               

Cost:          £460*  (20 hrs)

 

Venue:       Unit 24-25, The Forum,      

                  Independent Place,

                  Shacklewell Lane, Hackney

                  London. E8 2HE

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Students will gain knowledge and skills that will enable them to create beautiful stack cakes ideal for weddings and special occasions, decorated  with a bouquet of  gum paste flowers :

 

The workshop will include: 

 

  • Demonstration of Gum paste / Sugar paste flowers

  • Fancy / Lace Boarders

  • How to wire gum paste flowers

  • Textured designs

  • The use of dowel rods

  • Making gumpaste flowers

  • Drapes & Boarders

 

(*The fee includes all cakes, materials and the use of equipment)

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