Gonk Christmas party - 6-week cake course

Create a stunning Christmas centrepiece on a gonk theme - marzipan, ice and decorate 2 rich fruit cakes, a double-height barrel cake as well as creating a gonk family from more cake. You can choose your colour scheme.

Upcoming Start Dates

Tuesday Nov5

7:00pm - 9:30pm, 6 x Tuesday evenings 7pm-9.30pm each week 5/11, 12/11, 19/11, 26/11, 3/12, 10/12

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Wednesday Nov6

10:00am - 12:30pm, 6 x Wed mornings 10am -12.30pm each week 6/11, 13/11, 20/11, 27/11, 4/12, 11/12

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This course is jam- packed with techniques - be amazed at how much you learn and go home not only with a real show-stopper for your Christmas centrepiece but also with lots of skills and techniques you can use for other cake projects.

  • How to ice a cake board 
  • How to use fun fonts including spacing of messages
  • How to flood a message with royal icing
  • Marzipan your cakes using the panel method.
  • Ice your cakes in sugarpaste - with a focus on sharp edges
  • How to create a double height barrel cake
  • How to use moulds
  • How to use a range of cutters and techniques
  • How to create a starburst
  • How to create two-tone streamers
  • How to make edible bows
  • How to use the sugar gun 
  • How to model gonks
  • How to create 'cake' gonks
  • How to use lustre dusts
  • How to stack your cakes
  • How to add ribbon to your cake board
  • Transportation and storage
Annabelle Annabelle
Annabelle

Director

Annabelle established Confection Perfection (now re-branded as Annabelle Jane Cake School) in 1996 from her kitchen table; bought her first retail premises in 2000 and is now settled in a delightful setting in Bearsted, just outside Maidstone.  Annabelle has extensive cake decorating experience and is highly creative and artistic. Annabelle is an accredited tutor for the PME Diplomas in Sugar craft and also designs and delivers a wide range of other highly successful cake baking and decorating classes. Annabelle has a huge vision for our Cake School and ensures that the strong reputation we have earned continues to grow lead by her consistently high standards.

Everything is included - the 3 fruit cakes, marzipan, icing, boards, box, dowels, colours and use of equipment.  Students also receive a comprehensive set of notes and a 10% on shop purchases (on items used on the course) for the duration of the course.  We provide tea, coffee, drinking water and cake.  You may like to bring an apron.

If you would like to take photographs to supplement the notes you are most welcome, we do ask you not to take videos please.