CakeyBake Cake School

From Buttercream piping and Cake Decorating through to Chocolate Making and royal icing techniques, CakeyBake Cake School offers comprehensive baking tuition from its base at the Hop Farm in Tonbridge, Kent. The school specialises in hands-on decorative skills across cupcakes, celebration cakes, and biscuit decoration, with classes designed to accommodate beginners through to those seeking more advanced techniques.

The curriculum spans practical fundamentals alongside creative artistry. The Perfect Piping class introduces students to professional buttercream techniques, teaching how to create flat-topped cupcakes and master three different piping nozzles to achieve mixed colour effects. Students take home nine decorated cupcakes after the two-and-a-half-hour session. The Royal Iced Cookie Class provides a thorough grounding in consistency control, covering flood icing, wet-on-wet techniques, marbling, and detailed overpiping work including ditsy rose patterns.

More elaborate offerings include the intensive Cupcake Bouquet Class, where students learn to pipe roses, tulips, peonies, and chrysanthemums in buttercream before assembling them into presentation bouquets. The Chocolate Everything Ganached Cake Class teaches multiple chocolate techniques from ganache preparation and truffle making through to creating shaped chocolate bars and decorative drips. Those seeking themed challenges can tackle the Highland Cow Cake Class, which combines moulded sugar work with piping skills to create decorative antlers and sugar flowers.

Classes run from £55 for shorter sessions up to £175 for the most comprehensive chocolate course, with all equipment, ingredients, and refreshments provided. Pre-baked elements are supplied where appropriate, allowing focus on decorative techniques. The school accommodates corporate groups, hen parties, and children's classes, with gift vouchers and private hire available. This thorough approach to cake artistry suits anyone seeking structured development of decorative baking skills in a well-equipped teaching environment.

Reviews

Location

Bell 2, The Hop Farm, Beltring, Tonbridge TN12 6PY, Kent

A few things we think are worth having if you want to keep baking at home.

Equipment

Ateco Turntable

Solid stainless steel turntable. The foundation of cake decorating.

~£40View on Amazon

Equipment

Wenburg Cake Decorating Kit

Turntable, spatula, and piping tips - everything for your first decorated cake.

~£25View on Amazon

Book

The Cake Decorating Bible - Juliet Sear

Step-by-step techniques for frosting, fondant, and tiered cakes. The go-to guide after your first decorating class.

~£20View on Amazon

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