New Workshops for the New Year
 
Beginners: A workshop designed for the beginner or anyone who wishes to improve their cake decorating skills. It’s a chance to learn how to decorate a fruit cake complete with marzipan and sugarpaste to a professional standard. Different techniques will be used throughout the course to complete your cake ready for you to take home. Frills, simple piping, fondant roses and modeling teddy bears are all on the list. Everything is provided….even the cake!
 
Tuesday 17th January (6 weeks) or Thursday 19th January (6 weeks) - 7pm – 9pm
£80.00
 
Intermediate1: One step up from beginners and a valuable step forward to cake decorating. This workshop involves covering an unusual shaped dummy cake, side design, modelling simple figures, alternative script writing, carving and moulding a novelty cake to take home.
 
Thursday 26th January (5 weeks) or Tuesday 17th April (5 weeks) – 7pm – 9pm
£80.00
 
Intermediate2: Stage two of our Intermediate challenges and a workshop that has been put together from suggestions by you. Intermediate 2 will give you an insight into putting swags and tails onto a dummy cake, modelling a Me to You bear, two weeks creating a rose and leaves using petal paste and the last  stacking two cakes together to adorn your flower. NB: This workshop will involve you providing two cakes to stack on the last week. Help can be given with this if necessary.
 
Tuesday 24th January (5 weeks) Or Thursday 19th April (5 weeks) – 7pm – 9pm
£80.00
 
Big Blooms: And there’s more…..This “large” workshop is always popular and it’s a chance to make something “big” and beautiful. I am currently deciding on what flower to do, however the date has been set. You can book this workshop irrespective of what we do or alternatively you can reserve a place until a decision has been made.
 
Tuesday 17th April (5 weeks)  - 7pm – 9pm
£70.00
 
CAKE POPS WORKSHOP:  Learn the basics on how to create this new craze sweeping the country. You will be taught how to make, coat and decorate basic cake pops, even take some home.
Saturday 14th January 10am – 12pm
£35.00
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL MORE DATES TO BE ARRANGED. TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST AND/OR RESERVE A PLACE, PLEASE CONTACT US.
 
CHILDREN’S CUPCAKE WORKSHOP: new for 2012 and specially designed for children. Create fun and delicious cup cakes with a variety of decorations. Learn how to use flat icing and buttercream swirls. Finish the cakes with a variety of decoration ideas taking home six of your own to impress the family.  All the ingredients and equipment are included in the workshop price.  PLACES GOING FAST!
AGE RESTRICTION – 11 – 16 years.
 
Saturday 28th January – 10am – 12pm
£25.00
 

Cake Pops – 19th November – 10am – finish time to be confirmed - £35.00

Learn the basics on how to create this new craze sweeping the country. You will be taught how to make, coat and decorate basic cake pops, even take some home.

Samples of basic Cake Pops (designs will vary)

Samples of a previous workshop on Themed cupcakes

Themed Cupcakes – 3rd December – 10am – 12.30pm - £40.00

This workshop takes cupcakes to the next stage completing your cupcakes with a Christmas theme. Ideal for ideas for Christmas parties, teachers gifts, Fayres or just delight your family with them over Christmas. You will need to provide six of your own cupcakes on this workshop.

Big Blooms Workshop (5 weeks) 7pm – 9pm £65.00

Wednesday 9th November
This “large” workshop is always popular and it’s a chance to make something “big” and beautiful. I am currently deciding on what flower to do, however the date has been set. You can book this workshop irrespective of what we do or alternatively you can reserve a place until a decision has been made.


Large Hydrangea Head

Large Peony head

Magnolia Stem

Designer Christmas cake Workshop (6 weeks) 1pm – 3pm £70.00

Tuesday 8th November
This is going to be our daytime Floral Workshop redesigned for Christmas. And you’ll love it!
It’s a six week course. You will marzipan and ice two small fruit cakes, supplied by yourself (or we can supply them for you at an extra cost to yourself). We will then spend a few weeks using petal paste creating a Christmas flower for your cake. The remaining weeks will be spent putting a delicate side design on your cake using paint and piping techniques, bead and wire work and the last week to put it altogether.
Due to the content of this workshop, some experience is necessary, if in doubt contact us to discuss.

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS
Cupcakes for Beginners - 1st October - 10am – 12.30pm - £40.00

Sample of Giant cupcake decoration will be different

Create fun and delicious cup cakes with a variety of decorations. Learn how to use flat icing and buttercream swirls. Finish the cakes with a variety of decoration ideas taking home six of your own to impress the family. All the ingredients and equipment are included in the workshop price.
Harry Potter Masterclass – 22nd October - 10am – 12.30pm - £35.00
Watch a demonstration on how to create this popular character out of icing with the chance to create one yourself. Some experience an advantage. 
Giant Cupcake – 5th November – 10am – 1pm - £55.00
Create a fantastic giant cupcake, decorated and ready to take home to eat just in time for bonfire night. You will be shown how to ice the cake, stack and decorate it. All the ingredients and equipment are included in the workshop price. Book early to avoid disappointment.

Intermediate 1 Workshop (5 weeks) 7pm – 9pm £75.00

Showing off their cakes at the end of our Intermediate 1 Workshop

Thursday 22nd September - FULL
NEW DATE ADDED - Wednesday 9th November
One step up from beginners and a valuable step forward to cake decorating. This workshop involves covering an unusual shaped dummy cake, side design, modelling simple figures, alternative script writing, carving and moulding a novelty cake to take home.

Intermediate 2 Workshop (5 weeks) 7pm – 9pm £75.00

Wednesday 21st September
NEW DATE ADDED – Thursday 10th November
This is another one of our Intermediate workshops. You will learn how to put swags and tails onto a dummy cake. Model a Me to You bear. Create a rose and leaves using petal paste and stack two cakes together to adorn your flower. NB: This workshop will involve you providing two cakes to stack on the last week. Help can be given with this if necessary.
INTERMEDIATE WORSKHOPS CAN BE COMPLETED IN ANY ORDER AS THEY ARE DIFFERENT SKILLS BASED ON THE SAME LEVEL.

Forthcoming Events

10th September – Ashton Festival starts with Food Fayre on the market
13th September
21st September – Worskhops commence

INFORMATION FOR THE LINK ON COURSES .........
All workshops are restricted to over 18’s only.
All equipment on our workshops is provided and readily available for you to use. However, if you have equipment at home and wish to bring it along, please feel free to do so as this may avoid you from waiting.
Tea, coffee and juice are available at no extra cost.
Please arrive 10 minutes before the Workshop is due to start.
If you would like to check on availability before booking please contact us on 01942 274600.
Goods can be bought in the shop on the night of your workshop provided this is before your workshop starts or in the break.
Please note that sometimes it may be necessary to cancel workshops due to lack of interest. As this is beyond our control, we will try our best to re-arrange.
If you would like to book a place, please either call into the shop or telephone with your details. A 50% deposit will be required upon booking (non-refundable unless we cancel a workshop ourselves).

Our Ladies on a previous Beginners Workshop

Beginners Workshop (6 weeks) 7pm – 9pm £75.00
Wednesday 21st September
Thursday 22nd September
NEW DATE ADDED - Thursday 10th November
This is a workshop designed for the beginner or anyone who wishes to improve their cake decorating skills. It’s a chance to learn how to decorate a fruit cake complete with marzipan and sugarpaste to a professional standard. Different techniques will be used throughout the course to complete your cake ready for you to take home. Frills, simple piping, fondant roses and modeling teddy bears are all on the list. Everything is provided….even the cake!

And that brings us to August. A busy month with weddings and our annual holidays but eager to get going on the remainder of the year.

July

Workshops organised for September – December 2011
Click on the link for all the latest information

June

Ashton Trefoil Ladies. Now this was a night to remember! 9 ladies, of a certain age, around a table making teddybears! We had so much fun on this evening demonstrating, taking photos and seeing the ladies faces light up when eventually a teddybear emerged...Roll on next year!.

May

Happy 21st Birthday Tommy. Janets son.

April

Our Wonky Cake Workshop finally went ahead. We all thoroughly enjoyed this day. With everyone going home with a completed cake....Well done ladies
Thanks to Eileen for the lovely chocolates!
Eileen’s daughter was due to get married in April and came to us for help and advice. By booking on our Private Tuition Val was able to help Eileen cover and stack the wedding cake she had always wanted to do. The results were incredible.
We were also approached by a lady whose son was contemplating catering college we felt he wasn’t quite old enough to enrol for our cake decorating lessons so we came up with the plan for Ellis to join us for a week. He worked alongside us whilst incorporating the Beginners workshop. Ellis surprised us all with his natural ability for cake decorating. Good Luck Ellis!
Janet went to work with local charity “Friends of Young Carers”, working within support groups. The children were fantastic and enjoyed every moment. They work hard caring for family members and a bit of light relief goes along way. This is a very deserving charity..

March

R.L. Hughes Primary School - We volunteered our services to help out the children of Year 5 in Enterprise week. We demonstrated a bunny rabbit for them to make and gave them ideas for decorating cupcakes. We always enjoy going into schools on Enterprise week as it gives the children an insight into what we do and how they can make money from it.
Holy Family R.C. Primary School – Janet went to visit her local school in Platt Bridge for their enterprise week. She demonstrated to over 30 nursery children.... a challenge in itself.

March also saw the second of our Work Experience girls Sarah Bailey from St Edmond Arrowsmith High School. Sarah, the sister of a previous Work Experience Becca came to us for only a week but in that time helped us with our day to day routines.

February

Brought the 18th birthday of Kath’s daughter (our Saturday girl) Hannah. The cake we designed for her was reconstructed for our window display bringing lots of custom in.

January

Saw the start of our Work experience students – Sophie Herring came to us from Deanery High School. Sophie helped us with the day to day running of the business keeping all the stock up to date.
She completed her training producing a cake for her mum. Well Done Sophie.