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

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

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.