By popular demand we have a seasonal baking class, you will learn to make wonderful baked goods inspired by traditions. Wow your friends and family with a German stollen, Lebkuchen and British classic – mince pies.

Victoria is the former tutor of ‘Slatterys School of Excellence’ a trained chef, pastry chef, confectioner, cake designer and chocolatier. She has a vast amount of knowledge and shares her skills in such a way that you cannot help but be as enthusiastic as she is.

What you will bake:

• Stollen – Fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated in icing sugar with a marzipan filling
• Lebkuchen – Invented by monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. A honey-sweetened biscuit
• Mince Pies – A wonderful British tradition, ours will be meat and suet free.

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 be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Treat yourself and your loved ones at our edible gift class. Not only will you enjoy a fun afternoon whilst brushing up on your baking skills but you’ll also create scrumptious culinary sweet treats – the perfect gourmet gift. Friends and family are guaranteed to be impressed by the extra thought and time put into the unique and personal handmade gifts.

Victoria will take you on a step-by-step journey on how to make delicious edible treats, combining a mix of demos and hands-on-cooking.

What you will learn & make: 

• Chocolate Truffles
• Florentines
• Mini Mince pies
• Marzipan Fruits
• Italian Biscotti

Save the planet! – bring a re useable bag to transport your gifts home.

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.
• Gift packaging is included, please bring a re useable bag to carry your gifts home.
• Copies of the recipes will be emailed to you after the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

Working with chef, you will enjoy an inspiring afternoon ‘Baking Together’ with your child(ren) or soon to be teenager.

This class is about spending time with your child by doing an activity which requires working as a team. You will prepare a main course, a side dish and a dessert, before enjoying your meal together in the company of others in our dining area.

Chef will share tips and tricks to improve your skills in the kitchen, whilst creating a repeatable meal which is bound to become a family favourite.

You might make:

• Pizza – Topped with your selection of pizza favourites.
• Garlic Bread or dough balls – get creative and shape your dough with guidance from chef.
• Decorated Cup Cakes or Chocolate Star bread – Learn to pipe different designs, sprinkles and decorations.

What’s Included

• We provide all ingredients, copies of the recipes will be emailed to you after the class.
• Glass of fizz, beer or wine for the adults, soft drink for the kids on arrival. Additional drinks can be purchased and paid for using cash or card
• Enjoy the food you create at the end of the class.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level: All Abilities

See additional options in the basket if you would like to add an additional adult or child – you will work as a three at one workstation.

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:

• Lunch will be provided in the way of sourdough bread along with meats and cheeses and coffee on arrival
• 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
• Glass of fizz, beer or soft drink on arrival. We have a great bar with some amazing wines, beers, a range of spirits, soft drinks and cocktails to enjoy – additional beverages can be purchased using cash or 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.

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

For the French, “le pain” transcends mere sustenance; it is a cherished cultural heritage, an embodiment of tradition, and a testament to the artistry of baking. French bread is interwoven into the tapestry of daily life, a symbol of expression and a cornerstone of their culture.

We are thrilled to be working with Marc Mole for this class, he has a wealth of experience in French cuisines and bread making – you’ll leave armed with the knowledge and expertise to bake more at home

Starting with a coffee, we will demonstrate and you will make an enriched dough – this will prove and become a brioche style bun – Tangzhong burger bun.

Your main dough will prove over lunch time and during the afternoon session, you will use this to make a traditional loaf and bagels.  If there is time, Steph will demo something lovely to accompany your bake!

Examples of what you will learn:

• Pain De Campagne – using a Sourdough starter, it’s a rustic, hearty bread made with whole wheat flour.
• Fougasse – flatbread-style with distinctive slashes meant to evoke an ear of wheat, with olives, anchovies, cheese or garlic.
• French Brioche – An enriched dough. Soft, lightly sweet, rich bread that works in sweet and savoury dishes alike

Save the planet! – bring three large containers to take your bread home

What’s Included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch – you will eat the bread that you make.
• 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

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

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
• Tulip

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.
• Light lunch with something sweet for dessert.
• 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:

• Lunch will be provided in the way of sourdough bread along with meats and cheeses and coffee on arrival
• 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
• Glass of fizz, beer or soft drink on arrival. We have a great bar with some amazing wines, beers, a range of spirits, soft drinks and cocktails to enjoy – additional beverages can be purchased using cash or 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

Learn how to create a unique drizzle worthy drip cake along with pipping skills, this workshop is perfect for home bakers looking for a new challenge, or professional bakers needing to hone their drip and piping skills.

You will Learn how to:

• Slicing and preparing a pre-made cake ready for decorating.
• Buttercream Icing for a professional smooth finish.
• Creating the perfect drip.
• Buttercream decorating skills – flowers and swirls.
• Finishing with chocolate twirls.

What’s included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch with something sweet for dessert.
• 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

For the French, “le pain” transcends mere sustenance; it is a cherished cultural heritage, an embodiment of tradition, and a testament to the artistry of baking. French bread is interwoven into the tapestry of daily life, a symbol of expression and a cornerstone of their culture.

We are thrilled to be working with Marc Mole for this class, he has a wealth of experience in French cuisines and bread making – you’ll leave armed with the knowledge and expertise to bake more at home

Starting with a coffee, we will demonstrate and you will make an enriched dough – this will prove and become a brioche style bun – Tangzhong burger bun.

Your main dough will prove over lunch time and during the afternoon session, you will use this to make a traditional loaf and bagels.  If there is time, Steph will demo something lovely to accompany your bake!

Examples of what you will learn:

• Pain De Campagne – using a Sourdough starter, it’s a rustic, hearty bread made with whole wheat flour.
• Fougasse – flatbread-style with distinctive slashes meant to evoke an ear of wheat, with olives, anchovies, cheese or garlic.
• French Brioche – An enriched dough. Soft, lightly sweet, rich bread that works in sweet and savoury dishes alike

Save the planet! – bring three large containers to take your bread home

What’s Included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch – you will eat the bread that you make.
• 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

• Free standing inclusion egg.
• Hand rolled truffles, spun with white chocolate.
• Hand piped chocolates.

What’s Included:

• Tea/Coffee or soft drinks on arrival, all ingredients you need including cellophane to present your egg.
• We have basic containers; however, we recommend you bring your own study ones.
• The added bonus is the washing up is all done for you!

Skill Level – All Abilities

A tart is a baked dish that consist of a delicious filling over a pastry base with an open top which is not covered with pastry, a pie is a whole dish encased in pastry – either can be sweet or savoury. In this class you will make a selection of pies and tarts from around the world.

Examples of what you will make: Ingredients are locally sourced

• Portuguese Pastéis de Nata – Portuguese custard tart made with puff pastry and filled with egg custard
• Pecan Pie – A pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar
• Key Lime Pie – Named after small Key limes from Southeast Asia

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 drink on arrival and refreshments throughout the day, along with all the ingredients. A light lunch will be served, and you will take home your tasty treats.
• We have simple takeaway containers, although feel free to bring your own Tupperware!
• 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

Making bread at home is both a treat and a satisfying experience.  We have arranged this Introduction to Bread Making to demonstrate how versatile the skills are – this is a really hands-on class and you will make a variety of different breads during the day.

We are thrilled to be working with baker Steph Clubb for this class, she has a wealth of experience in bread making and teaching – you’ll leave armed with the knowledge and expertise to bake more.

Starting with a coffee, we will demonstrate and you will make an enriched dough – this will prove and become a brioche style bun – Tangzhong burger bun.

Your main dough will prove over lunch time and during the afternoon session, you will use this to make a traditional loaf and bagels.  If there is time, Steph will demo something lovely to accompany your bake!

What’s included:

Coffee on arrival, all ingredients you need.  A light lunch will be provided.

You will take home bagels, traditional loaf and Tangzong.

Skill Level: All Abilities

For the French, “le pain” transcends mere sustenance; it is a cherished cultural heritage, an embodiment of tradition, and a testament to the artistry of baking. French bread is interwoven into the tapestry of daily life, a symbol of expression and a cornerstone of their culture.

We are thrilled to be working with Marc Mole for this class, he has a wealth of experience in French cuisines and bread making – you’ll leave armed with the knowledge and expertise to bake more at home

Starting with a coffee, we will demonstrate and you will make an enriched dough – this will prove and become a brioche style bun – Tangzhong burger bun.

Your main dough will prove over lunch time and during the afternoon session, you will use this to make a traditional loaf and bagels.  If there is time, Steph will demo something lovely to accompany your bake!

Examples of what you will learn:

• Pain De Campagne – using a Sourdough starter, it’s a rustic, hearty bread made with whole wheat flour.
• Fougasse – flatbread-style with distinctive slashes meant to evoke an ear of wheat, with olives, anchovies, cheese or garlic.
• French Brioche – An enriched dough. Soft, lightly sweet, rich bread that works in sweet and savoury dishes alike

Save the planet! – bring three large containers to take your bread home

What’s Included:

• Tea & Coffee on arrival and refreshments throughout the day.
• Light lunch – you will eat the bread that you make.
• 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