September Cookery Classes & Experiences

The Mekong River is located in South East Asia and stretches across six countries: China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. You will explore Thai, Vietnamese and Malay-style curries, discovering what makes each one distinctive and how to balance aromatic, sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavours.

Suitable for all cooking abilities, the class combines chef demonstrations with plenty of hands-on cooking. You’ll learn how to build flavour, use unfamiliar ingredients with confidence and adapt what you’ve learnt to create different dishes at home.

Taste the curries as you cook, take the rest of your creations home and leave with useful techniques and plenty of new ideas.

Learn the essential skills of professional cake decorating in this hands-on workshop with Victoria. From preparing your cake to adding the finishing touches, you’ll be guided through each stage to create a beautifully decorated cake that’s uniquely yours.

You’ll learn how to stack, dowel, level, fill and crumb-coat a pre-made cake, before creating a smooth, professional buttercream finish. Victoria will also demonstrate techniques for achieving clean, sharp edges and the perfect drip. With expert guidance throughout, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experiment and add your own creative flair to your design.

Skills you will learn:

• Stack, dowel and prepare a pre-made cake for decorating.
• Apply buttercream for a smooth, professional finish.
• Create clean, sharp edges and a polished finish.
• Create the perfect drip.
• Master buttercream piping techniques, including swirls and decorative shapes.
• Choose your favourite techniques and bring them together to create your own unique cake design.

You’ll leave the workshop with a beautifully finished cake to take home. Please bring a sturdy bag or cake box for safe transport.

What’s included:

• Tea, coffee and refreshments throughout the day
• All ingredients, equipment and gift-wrap
• Your decorated cake to take home (please bring suitable containers)
• Full workshop notes emailed after the class
• Best of all, we take care of the washing up!

Designed for home baristas and coffee enthusiasts who want to make better espresso and milk-based drinks in their own kitchen. No previous experience is needed, and Barista Gav will answer your questions about traditional home-brewing equipment and methods. You’ll also use our commercial espresso machine to learn milk texturing and the basics of latte art.

You’ll explore how coffee origin, processing, water quality and brewing method affect the flavour in your cup. We’ll then move on to espresso, learning how to adjust and calibrate the grinder before covering milk texturing and the foundations of latte art.

Skills you’ll learn:

• How to taste and compare speciality coffees
• How to improve the espresso you make at home
• Different ways to brew coffee at home, including V60, Clever Dripper and AeroPress
• How to adjust your grinder and achieve a balanced extraction
• Milk texturing and the fundamentals of latte art

Throughout the session, you’ll taste a selection of interesting coffees from around the world and leave with practical knowledge you can put to use at home.

What’s included:

Lots of coffee and biscuits!

Skill Level: All Abilities

Latte art was popularised at Seattle’s Espresso Vivace during the late 1980s and early 1990s. There’s something about a beautifully poured design that makes a great coffee even more satisfying—and, like a snowflake or fingerprint, every pour is unique.

Join Gav, our barista with more than 20 years’ experience, for a hands-on workshop learning how to texture milk and pour your own latte art. Suitable for all abilities, from hospitality professionals to home coffee lovers looking to take their skills to the next level.

Skills you’ll learn:

• How to steam and stretch milk to create silky microfoam
• How to control the milk flow when pouring
• How to pour a solid heart, tulip and rosetta
• Plenty of hands-on practice with guidance from Gav

What’s included:

Plenty of coffee to practise with—and brownies to keep you going!What’s included:

Lots of coffee and biscuits!

Skill Level: All Abilities

If you’ve ever oohed and aahed over beautifully crafted cakes and wondered how professional bakers achieve that perfect balance of appearance, texture and flavour, this is the class for you.

Former tutor at Slattery School of Excellence, Victoria has joined the Food Sorcery team to share her expertise through a range of inspiring baking classes. From perfect pastry and patisserie to chocolate tempering and cake decorating, Victoria will help you develop the skills and confidence to create truly professional results at home.

You Will Learn

• The professional techniques and small details that make all the difference when baking cakes
• How to bake three classic cake styles
• The art of creating and balancing cake flavours
• How to slice and layer large cakes with precision
• How to pipe cream as a filling to give structure and stability to layered cakes

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 – Moist chocolate sponge layers, soaked with kirsch, whipped cream and finished with dark chocolate curls
• Genoise Sponge – Light airy cake – leavened with egg /sugar and filled with fresh Chantilly cream and rich fruit jam.

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!

Cooking Together Experiences are as much about relaxing and sharing good food as they are about learning to cook—the perfect blend of a meal out and hands-on cookery class—what we call sociable foodie fun.

Each ticket is for two people, and you’ll cook together, sharing ingredients and equipment. If you have different dietary requirements, we’ll adapt the ingredients to suit you both—just let us know in the booking notes.

Suitable for all cooking abilities, our chef demonstrates and you recreate both starter and main with plenty of time to enjoy eating between courses. Our team serves dessert while you relax and chat in our sociable dining area.

Designed for all cooking abilities, you’ll leave with the confidence to recreate the meal at home – a new go-to favourite.

Enjoy a hands-on Vietnamese cookery class and discover the vibrant flavours of one of Asia’s most celebrated cuisines. Influenced by both Chinese and French cooking traditions, Vietnamese food is known for its fresh ingredients, fragrant herbs, vibrant flavours and delicate balance. Naturally light and low in dairy and fat, it’s as delicious as it is healthy.

You’ll learn the essential techniques, tips and tricks for creating authentic Vietnamese dishes at home, with plenty of hands-on cooking alongside expert chef demonstrations.

Cook, eat and enjoy your creations as you go, then take home everything you’ve made. You’ll leave with new skills, plenty of inspiration and the confidence to cook delicious Vietnamese food at home.