Advanced Baking & Cake Decorating workshops
Hackney Training Enterprise Associates (HTEA) provides affordable courses and workshops for the local community. Below is the list of the next available workshops If you would like to book complete an booking form and email it to or contact us on 020 7249 4542


Wedding Cakes & Stack Cakes
(FREE CAKE BOOK for all Students)
Dates: 21 & 28 September 2018 (Friday)
Time: 10 - 2pm (8hrs)
Cost: £240
Venue: Unit 24-25, The Forum, Independent Place,Shacklewell Lane, Hackney London. E8 2HE
Students will gain knowledge and skills that will enable them to create beautiful stack cakes ideal for weddings and special occasions:
The workshop will cover:
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Demonstration of Gumpaste / Sugar paste Flowers
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Fancy Boarders
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How to Wire gumpaste Flowers
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Textured designs
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And much more
Students must have basic cake decorating skills – for more info and to book dates please call Maxine on 0207 249 4542 or email
*(The fee includes all cakes, materials and the use of equipment)
Let's Celebrate with Cake! -
Advanced cake decorating
(FREE CAKE BOOK for all Students)
Dates: 12, 19, 26 June & 3 July 2018
(Tuesday)
11, 18, 25 September & 3 October 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 6 - 9pm
Cost: £250* (12 hrs)
Venue: Unit 24-25, The Forum, Independent Place,Shacklewell Lane, Hackney London. E8 2HE
Learn new cake decorating ideas and techniques
Turn your ordinary cakes into fantastically decorated cakes. This workshop offers 9hrs professional tuition and the use of all course materials including a 2hrs session on “How to sell your cakes”
Course Aim: Students will gain knowledge and skills that will enable them to cover a cake with a textured surface while learning the following:
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Introduction to textured designs
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Sugar paste/ gumpaste flowers
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Drapes and boarders
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Cut outs and cake toppers
*students are required to have basic skills for cake decorating
Please note, This workshop can also be arranged for a Saturday one to one session cost £300 ring Maxine 0207 249 4542 to book a place.
*(The fee includes all cakes, materials and the use of equipment)

Rum Fruit cake
(FREE CAKE BOOK for all Students)
Date: 28 April 2018 (Saturday)
Time: 10am – 2pm
Cost: £100
Venue: Unit 24-25, The Forum,
Independent Place, Shacklewell Lane,Hackney, London.
E8 2HE
Have you ever meticulously followed a recipe, only for your cake to come out of the oven under-cooked, burnt, flat as a pancake, sunken or cracked?
Want to know how to make and decorate the perfect cake for a special occasion ? Yes - then this is the course for you!
This workshop introduces you to the art of baking & cake decorating and will:
· Build your confidence by preparing a delicious fruit cake
· Work out what went wrong with your cake?
· Teach you about kitchen / food hygiene
· Teach you how to prepare fruits for your cake
· Introduction to cake covering
How to cover cake using Marzipan
· The colouring of sugar paste
· How to prepare butter cream and use simple piping strokes
· Simple cake toppers
· How to sell your cakes
(*Please note that all ingredients are provided as part of the workshop fee)