Bento Cake Decorating Class Reviews

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This is a fun activity in Hackney, London

Bento Cake Workshop
This hands-on workshop is all about building real decorating skills in a relaxed, friendly setting - perfect whether you're a complete beginner or a home baker looking to finesse your finish.

What You'll Learn

- How to level & fill a two-layer bento 4" cake
- How to crumb coat and fully decorate your cake with a smooth, polished finish
- Chocolate writing techniques
- Buttercream piping techniques

What's Included

- All ingredients and materials
- Your finished cake to take home
- A digital handbook including a meringue buttercream recipe, essential tools & equipment list, and decoration styles and finishes
- Tea, coffee, soft drinks, and plenty of encouragement!

What to Expect
This is a relaxed, friendly session - ask anything as we go.

- Short introduction to find out everyone's goals for the session
- Demonstration on making Swiss meringue buttercream
- Brief discussion on essential tools and equipment for decorating at home
- Levelling and filling the sponge layers
- Crumbing the cake
- Practising chocolate writing techniques
- Practising buttercream piping techniques
- Decorating the cake with a smooth finish - plus alternative techniques you can try at home with less equipment
- Freestyle time - use everything you've learned to put your own stamp on your cake

What to Bring
Just yourself - we'll take care of everything else! We provide aprons, all materials, and a box and bag to take your cake home.
Please wear comfortable clothing. As this is a working kitchen, we ask that hair is tied back or covered.

Essential Info
EK BAKERY, Broadway Market Mews, Hackney, London, E8 4TS
2 – 2.5 hours
Maximum 6 people

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Tessa McQuillen

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“A very enjoyable relaxed lesson. Elizabeth was very helpful and answered questions and gave plenty of advice. Only four people in the class which was lovely and friendly. Definitely recommend.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

“Really fun class! Instructor was lovely and I learned a lot”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

Bernadette Darmody

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“I found the class amazing. I found it so helpful with so many great tips and with hands on help.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

Sarah Heacock

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“The instructor was so helpful and very open to questions. Got to practice quite a few skills which I found very useful!”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

Natalia Stec

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“It was good. We arrived and got a complimentary drink. The teacher was very nice and friendly. We felt very welcome. The reason for giving 3 stars is that there was not that much structure (for example, not telling everyone to go wash their hands, or no formal introduction). For the amount that this class was, it was very undermining. I thought that the cake was going to be a bit bigger, we spent a lot of the time just waiting (for example for the clean up, or for bagging the icing when we could have done it ourselves as it is part of the decorating experience) or it could have been done prior. (For example there was only one cutting tool, which we all had to share and not enough spatulas- which i understand as its a bakery and they probably only need one/a couple tools... I would say that either the class was too big, or the price was too high given the limited equipment). On a positive note, there was a lot of decorations which were really cute, but there were no inspiration pictures printed out. Essencially, I do understand that this is a lot of preperation for one person to do prior, and obviously the clean up, however i do feel that the price was too high for what the class had to offer. In my opinion an £80pp class would have had a lot more preperation done and not have felt like just a way for the person to make some easy money on the side.”

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Posted 7 months ago

Abigail Brady

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“I booked this for my daughter’s 23rd birthday. It was a really lovely day out for both of us. It’s right behind Broadway market so on a Saturday you can do the market and lunch as well. The class is small (up to 6 people) and Elizabeth is very clear and patient with her instructions. You learn how to level a cake, cut it in half, fill it, do an initial layer of icing, do a second layer and decorate. You also get to practise different kinds of piping. And then you get a beautiful cake to take home. I’ve never made or decorated cakes myself before but it’s given me a lot of confidence to make them for birthdays etc in future. So much nicer than a shop-bought cake.”

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Posted 8 months ago

Lucy Tillett

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“This was great!! Elizabeth was so helpful annd knowledgable and I was so happy with what I learned. Such a wholesome Saturday activity”

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Posted 9 months ago

Magdalena Pletsch

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“Elizabeth is a very good teacher. She is well organised and has lots of good tips on how to decorate cakes. She created a relaxed atmosphere and we had great fun trying out different techniques for prettifying our cakes. We are looking forward to the opportunity to attend a follow up course.”

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Posted 10 months ago