Bread, Baking and Cake Decorating

Baker Victoria Richardson will show you the delights of working with different techniques to achieve the best results. Making bread is both a treat and a satisfying experience, the aromas amazing and with plenty of transferable skills you will be enjoying adapting your techniques to different breads.

Examples of what you will learn:

• Plaiting & Knotting Techniques – regular dough ready to shape into a six plait loaf and knots.
• Adding Flavour to bread – Choose Olives, Onions, Caraway seeds and learn how to adapt a dough to add flavour.
• Soda Bread – Yeast free and low fat, all of its leavening comes from baking soda and buttermilk.
• Foccaccia – Classic Italian bread topped with rosemary, olive oil and sea salt.

Bring large containers/bag to take your bread home.

What’s Included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch – Served with bread.
• You will take home your creations, please bring suitable containers and means to take them home!
• Copies of the workshop notes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level: All Abilities

Sourdough bread has been around for hundreds of years. Widely favoured amongst many due to its ability to digest easier within the body and for its tangy flavour and wholesome appearance.

Whilst the supermarkets have brought sourdough to our shelves, the amount of care and attention needed is sometimes lost in the mass production of sourdough which takes great care and most of all time.

Matt has been baking and teaching for many years and runs a Most bakery in Altrincham, he is full of technical know how about how to achieve great sourdough results.

In this easy class for sourdough beginners, we teach you:

• How to make a starter from the beginning, how to take care of it and feed and nurture it using a variety of readily available ingredients.
• You will also be shown how to shape the dough to achieve the best looking loaves and simple cutting effects to make those enviable patterns so that your bread has that professional appearance.
• We will also be discussing and using many different types of grain and show you how easy it is to make a super fast version of sourdough for an every day supply of better bread.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.

What’s included:

• Tea and coffee will be available through the class and Matt will bring a sourdough for you to taste.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.
• We have all the equipment you need but please bring or buy a banneton
• Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar payable via card.
• Copies of the recipes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Either bring a banneton or purchase one of ours. If you don’t want to purchase a banneton you can bring a colander with a damp towel to take your dough home.

Skill Level: All Abilities

If you have ever oohed and aahed over professionally baked cakes and wondered just how and why they tick all the right boxes of appearance and taste, then this is the class for you.

Former tutor of Slattery School of Excellence, Victoria has joined the team at Food Sorcery to delivery a range of baking classes. The perfect pastry for pies, patisserie passion, tempering chocolate or cake decorating, let Victoria inspire you.

Please note: this class cannot be adapted to gluten free or vegan.

You will learn

• The details that matter when making cakes professionally
• How to bake three different kinds of cake
• The secret art of cake flavouring and perfect buttercream making
• Slicing and layering large cakes
• Piping cream as a filling to give structure to a layered cake.

You Will make and Take Home

• Lemon Drizzle – Moist & tangy cake dotted with lemon zest and drizzled with a tart-and-sweet lemony glaze
• Black Forex Gateaux – Several layers of chocolate cake, with cherry and kirsch filling
• Genoise Sponge – A classic sponge cake enriched with butter and egg yolk

Save the planet! – bring three large re-useable cake boxes or containers and a bag to transport your bakes home. We have disposable ones if you forget.

What’s Included:

• Tea/Coffee or soft drinks on arrival, all ingredients you need. You will sit down to a light lunch during the class and will take away your creations.
• Bring your own containers to transport your creations home, we have simple ones if you forget.
• Copies of the recipes will also be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Spruce up your cakes by learning the art of sugar paste. This workshop is perfect for home bakers looking for a new challenge, or professional bakers needing to hone their sugar craft skills.

Professionally coat & cover cakes
We will teach you how to crumbcoat a pre-made cake, that you will fill and stack with jam and buttercream.
You will then be taught how to get a smooth flawless finish using sugar paste.
Once you have perfected this method you will then make a bonus bear who will sit proudly on top of your newly created masterpiece.

Save the planet! – bring a large re-useable container and a bag to transport your bakes home. We have disposable ones if you forget.

What’s included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• You will take home your cake, please bring suitable containers and means to take it home!
• Copies of the workshop notes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Learn the art of buttercream piping, this workshop is perfect for home bakers looking for a new challenge, or professional bakers needing to hone their piping skills.

We will demo how to make the perfect cupcake base and traditional crusting buttercream. You will be taught piping techniques that are transferable skills to use again and again. There is plenty of hands on time to decorate 20 cup cakes, 14 will be used to create two bouquets and you will take home the remaining 6.

You will construct and gift-wrap your bouquet to present as a stylish gift ready to take home.

Learn how to create realistic looking:

• Rose
• Hydrangea
• Sunflower
• Chrysanthemum
• Daisy

You will leave with a large cup cake bouquet, please bring a large bag to transport it home.

What’s included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• You will take home your creations, please bring suitable containers and means to take them home!
• Copies of the workshop notes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Making bread from scratch is a skill that both fills your kitchen with wonderful aromas and brings the immense satisfaction of taking the simplest of ingredients and creating something so delicious.

Baker Victoria Richardson will bring a sourdough starter for you to make your pizza, crackers, pretzels and or breadsticks. You will then learn how to make a regular dough to give you skills to make different types of bread.

Examples of what you will learn:

• Sourdough – How to create and feed a starter, you will make a quick prove Sourdough pizza, pretzels and breadsticks, using your starter discard to make Sourdough crackers. You will eat your pizza during the class.
• Traditional Loaf & Bagels (not Sourdough) – Using a regular dough which will prove over lunch you will make a traditional loaf and bagels.

What’s Included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch – you will eat the pizza that you make.
• You will take home your creations, please bring suitable containers and means to take them home!
• Copies of the recipes and notes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level: All Abilities

The Great British Bake Off TV show as inspired us to bring you a class to learn all there is to know about choux pastry.

Former tutor of Slattery School of Excellence, Victoria has joined the team at Food Sorcery to delivery a range of baking classes. The perfect pastry for pies, patisserie passion, tempering chocolate or cake decorating, let Victoria inspire you.

You will learn

• How to plan your baking to create stunning choux pastry desserts
• Make and pipe choux pastry
• Make crème mousseline
• How to fill eclairs and choux puffs for the mini Croquembouche tower
• Assemble and build a mini Croquembouche – Victoria will give guidance on creating a large sized croquembouche tower
• Create a beautiful Paris-Brest – splitting, piping and layering this showstopper

You Will make and Take Home

• Mini croquembouche tower – please bring a suitable container to transport it home
• Eclairs – filled and decorated
• Paris-Brest – named after the bike race Paris, to Brest. Filled with praline cream.

Save the planet! – bring three large re-useable containers and a bag to transport your bakes home. We have disposable ones if you forget.

What’s Included:

• Tea/Coffee or soft drinks on arrival, all ingredients you need. You will sit down to a light lunch during the class and will take away your creations.
• Bring your own containers to transport your creations home, we have simple ones if you forget.
• Copies of the recipes will also be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Pies are the ultimate comfort food, and every great pie begins with perfect pastry. A pie is typically filled with pre-cooked ingredients, while a pasty contains raw filling that cooks inside its pastry parcel.

In this class, you’ll learn the essential do’s and don’ts of pie fillings and how to master the art of the pasty. Once you’ve nailed these techniques, your pie-making possibilities will be endless. Best of all, you’ll take your delicious creations, and your new skills, home in time for dinner!

Types of Pastry you will make:

• Shortcrust Pastry
• Hot Water Crust Pastry
• Sweet Pastry

Examples of what you will bake:

• Traditional Cornish Pasty
• How to make the perfect hand raised pork pie
• Traditional Mince Pies

What’s included:

• Tea/Coffee or soft drinks on arrival, all ingredients you need. You will sit down to a light lunch during the class and will take away your creations.
• Bring your own containers to transport your creations home, we have simple ones if you forget.
• Copies of the recipes will also be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level: All Abilities

Sourdough bread has been around for hundreds of years. Widely favoured amongst many due to its ability to digest easier within the body and for its tangy flavour and wholesome appearance.

Whilst the supermarkets have brought sourdough to our shelves, the amount of care and attention needed is sometimes lost in the mass production of sourdough which takes great care and most of all time.

Matt has been baking and teaching for many years and runs a Most bakery in Altrincham, he is full of technical know how about how to achieve great sourdough results.

In this easy class for sourdough beginners, we teach you:

• How to make a starter from the beginning, how to take care of it and feed and nurture it using a variety of readily available ingredients.
• You will also be shown how to shape the dough to achieve the best looking loaves and simple cutting effects to make those enviable patterns so that your bread has that professional appearance.
• We will also be discussing and using many different types of grain and show you how easy it is to make a super fast version of sourdough for an every day supply of better bread.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.

What’s included:

• Tea and coffee will be available through the class and Matt will bring a sourdough for you to taste.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.
• We have all the equipment you need but please bring or buy a banneton
• Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar payable via card.
• Copies of the recipes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Either bring a banneton or purchase one of ours. If you don’t want to purchase a banneton you can bring a colander with a damp towel to take your dough home.

Skill Level: All Abilities

Sourdough bread has been around for hundreds of years. Widely favoured amongst many due to its ability to digest easier within the body and for its tangy flavour and wholesome appearance.

Whilst the supermarkets have brought sourdough to our shelves, the amount of care and attention needed is sometimes lost in the mass production of sourdough which takes great care and most of all time.

Matt has been baking and teaching for many years and runs a Most bakery in Altrincham, he is full of technical know how about how to achieve great sourdough results.

In this easy class for sourdough beginners, we teach you:

• How to make a starter from the beginning, how to take care of it and feed and nurture it using a variety of readily available ingredients.
• You will also be shown how to shape the dough to achieve the best looking loaves and simple cutting effects to make those enviable patterns so that your bread has that professional appearance.
• We will also be discussing and using many different types of grain and show you how easy it is to make a super fast version of sourdough for an every day supply of better bread.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.

What’s included:

• Tea and coffee will be available through the class and Matt will bring a sourdough for you to taste.
• You’ll take home a starter, a sourdough loaf part made by you as well as your own dough to cook at home.
• We have all the equipment you need but please bring or buy a banneton
• Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar payable via card.
• Copies of the recipes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Either bring a banneton or purchase one of ours. If you don’t want to purchase a banneton you can bring a colander with a damp towel to take your dough home.

Skill Level: All Abilities