Bread, Baking and Cake Decorating

Learn the essential skills of professional cake decorating in this hands-on workshop with Victoria. You’ll master how to level, fill, crumb-coat and finish a cake from start to perfection. Explore a range of buttercream techniques, from creating smooth, sharp edges to elegant piping and drip designs. With expert guidance throughout, you’ll have the freedom to add your own creative flair — designing a cake that’s uniquely yours.

Skills you will learn:

• Learn to stack, dowel and prepare a pre-made cake ready for decorating.
• Buttercream Icing for a professional smooth finish.
• Creating the perfect drip in your choice of colour.
• Buttercream decorating skills – flowers and swirls.
• Victoria will show you piping techniques to create different shapes, you choose which to put onto your cake.

You’ll leave with a beautifully finished cake – please bring a sturdy bag or box for 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!

Skill Level: Suitable for all abilities.

Create one of the most sought-after cake designs of recent years in this hands-on decorating workshop with Victoria. Inspired by the elegant vintage heart cakes seen across social media and celebrations everywhere, you’ll learn the art of transforming a simple cake into a beautifully piped showpiece.

Working with a pre-baked layered cake, Victoria will guide you through shaping, filling and finishing your cake before introducing you to the decorative over-piping techniques that define the classic Lambeth style. From delicate shells and swags to intricate borders and flourishes, you’ll discover how layers of piping can create a stunning vintage effect.

With expert guidance throughout, you’ll have the opportunity to personalise your design with your choice of colours and decorative details, creating a cake that’s completely unique to you.

Skills you will learn:

• How to shape and prepare a layered cake into the classic vintage heart design.
• Filling, crumb-coating and covering a cake with buttercream.
• Achieving a smooth, professional finish ready for decorating.
• Traditional Lambeth-style piping techniques, including shells, borders, swags and over-piping.
• How to build depth and texture using multiple piping styles.
• Colouring buttercream and creating a design that reflects your own style.
• Tips and techniques for achieving neat, consistent piping at home.

You’ll leave with a beautifully decorated vintage heart cake to take home, so please bring a sturdy cake box or carrier.

What’s included:

• Tea, coffee and refreshments throughout the workshop.
• All ingredients, equipment and decorating materials provided.
• Your finished vintage heart cake to take home.
• Best of all, we take care of the washing up!

Whether you’re new to cake decorating or looking to develop your piping skills, this workshop is the perfect way to learn the techniques behind this timeless and elegant cake trend.

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:

• Plaited Loaf – A regular dough shaped into a six plait loaf (often know as Challah)
• Knotted Loaves – A regular dough shaped into small knots and shapes.
• Flavoured Loaf – Learn to add flavour to a regular dough – Choose your own form Olives, Onions, Caraway seeds
• 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 deliver 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
• 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 – 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!

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

Discover the art of buttercream piping in this hands-on workshop, designed for enthusiastic home bakers looking to level up their skills and professionals wanting to refine their technique.

Victoria will explain how to make the perfect cupcakes complete with recipes for your convenience. You’ll then be guided through a range of piping techniques – versatile skills you can use time and again – before putting them into practice with plenty of decorating time.

Across the session you’ll decorate 14 cupcakes that will be arranged into two stunning cupcake bouquets. You’ll also learn how to construct and gift-wrap your bouquet, ready to present as a stylish edible gift.

Flowers you’ll create include:

• Rose
• Hydrangea
• Sunflower
• Chrysanthemum
• Daisy

You’ll leave with two beautifully finished large cupcake bouquets – please bring a sturdy bag or box for transport.

What’s included:

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

Skill Level: Suitable for all abilities.

Create one of the most sought-after cake designs of recent years in this hands-on decorating workshop with Victoria. Inspired by the elegant vintage heart cakes seen across social media and celebrations everywhere, you’ll learn the art of transforming a simple cake into a beautifully piped showpiece.

Working with a pre-baked layered cake, Victoria will guide you through shaping, filling and finishing your cake before introducing you to the decorative over-piping techniques that define the classic Lambeth style. From delicate shells and swags to intricate borders and flourishes, you’ll discover how layers of piping can create a stunning vintage effect.

With expert guidance throughout, you’ll have the opportunity to personalise your design with your choice of colours and decorative details, creating a cake that’s completely unique to you.

Skills you will learn:

• How to shape and prepare a layered cake into the classic vintage heart design.
• Filling, crumb-coating and covering a cake with buttercream.
• Achieving a smooth, professional finish ready for decorating.
• Traditional Lambeth-style piping techniques, including shells, borders, swags and over-piping.
• How to build depth and texture using multiple piping styles.
• Colouring buttercream and creating a design that reflects your own style.
• Tips and techniques for achieving neat, consistent piping at home.

You’ll leave with a beautifully decorated vintage heart cake to take home, so please bring a sturdy cake box or carrier.

What’s included:

• Tea, coffee and refreshments throughout the workshop.
• All ingredients, equipment and decorating materials provided.
• Your finished vintage heart cake to take home.
• Best of all, we take care of the washing up!

Whether you’re new to cake decorating or looking to develop your piping skills, this workshop is the perfect way to learn the techniques behind this timeless and elegant cake trend.

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

The festive season is all about indulgence, and nothing says comfort quite like freshly baked treats straight from the oven. In this class Victoria will show you how to bake some seasonal favourite bakes, come along with a friend, a gang or on your own and bake double.

One ticket is for two people, feel free to come alone and bake double the amount. Suitable to attend with children age 10+

Examples of what you will bake:

• German Stollen – studded with fruit and marzipan, finished with melted butter, icing sugar and wrapped
• Festive Gingerbread Shapes
• Demo of Mince Pies to Taste and Take 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.
• 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