Do you dream of making dreamily delicious cupcakes with the most incredible fantasy decorations, we'll show you how to make these easily and quickly with as little effort as possible. This is a hands on course so you'll try out and practice all the techniques yourselves and hopefully leave full of confidence to carry on when you get home. Whether you want to start you own cake business, make cupcakes for your wedding or just want to learn some techniques to impress the other Mums at your child's party this course will equip you with lots of ideas and skills.

We'll have some of the cakes ready made but we will start the day with you making up a batch too, then we'll move on to flavouring the cakes with sugar syrups and then onto icing. We will use a mixture of buttercream, fondant, royal icing and sugarpaste with the emphasis being on decorating the cupcakes although you will start the course by mixing up the basic cupcake mix for the cakes.

If you want a little more basic course with emphasis on making the cakes and icings in different flavours and filling then have a look at our Heavenly Cupcakes Course of if you would like to focus on miniature cakes rather than fairy cakes or have already done this workshop and want to learn new skills then the Miniature Cakes course is the next stage.

Let your imagination run wild and eat the results!

The course takes place in Princes Risborough from 10.30am - 2pm, this is a hands on course, all ingredients, utensils and aprons will be provided. Splat reserve the right to reschedule workshops in case of illness or minimum bookings not being met. Once booked onto the course the place must be paid for in full and if you are unable to attend we're really sorry but you will not be refunded or be able to transfer to an alternative unless we can find someone else to take your place.

If you wish to travel down the evening before the course please call us for details of local hotels and bed and breakfast options.

Send your child along to make a Mother's Day Flower Pot Cake, this is a fabulous cake made in a flower pot with a real flower in the top, a wonderfully unique Mother's Day gift.

The workshop takes place in Princes Risborough from 3-5pm. All our cookery leaders are CRB checked and fully insured. Aprons, ingredients and suitable containers to bring the cake home in will be provided. Suitable for children aged 5 upwards

This workshop is suitable for all ages as the children will be split into age related teams so your 15 year old won't be in the same team as the 5 year olds.

For ages 9-15 years including Duke of Edinburgh. Saturday morning Cooking Club run by our own Beverley Glock, The Times' and BBC Radio Oxford Family Food Expert.

The Club will be run from Beverley's lovely farmhouse kitchen in Princes Risborough and each week the children will make a different dish (mixture of sweet and dishes throughout the term), learn cooking techniques, explore different foods, run food experiments and take part in tastings. Beverley will be using seasonal fruit and vegetables where feasible. From the Easter/Spring holidays the children will be planting their own fruit and veg patch so they can see their plants growing and hopefully they will have some to eat or cook with before the summer holidays.  This term the children will make a selection of seasonal items including:

Coconut Kisses

Colcannon - St Patrick's Day

Brandy Snaps

Sushi

Easter Biscuits or Easter Eggs

The children will bring recipes home with them each week to put into their very own Splat Recipe Folder. The Club is aimed at children between the ages of 9-15 years old and will run for one hour 15 minutes each week from 9.45-11am, the children will bring home the goodies they have made each week as well as learning how to wash up and clean away afterwards, an essential part of cooking (!). All ingredients and utensils will be provided.

The course is booked for a half term in advance at the reduced rate of £12.50 per week but we're happy for children to join midway through the term or on a 'drop in' basis if there are spaces, this is at the weekly rate of £15. If you would like your child to 'try' out the course for one week then the charge will be £15, please call the office to discuss and check availability prior to booking.

The next course will run for 5 weeks from Saturday 25 February to 24 March inclusive, agreements must be signed before the children can take part.

Please note - if this class is full do get in touch as we do operate a waiting list for Saturday morning cooking clubs, please do register your interest if you'd like your child to go onto the list. If Beverley is unavailable due to other commitments another member of the Splat team will run the workshop if feasible. 

For ages 5-11 years, Saturday morning Cooking Club run by our own Beverley Glock, The Times' and BBC Radio Oxford Family Food Expert.

The Club will be run from Beverley's lovely farmhouse kitchen in Princes Risborough and each week the children will make a different dish (mixture of sweet and dishes throughout the term), learn cooking techniques, explore different foods, run food experiments and take part in tastings. Beverley will be using seasonal fruit and vegetables where feasible. From the Easter/Spring holidays the children will be planting their own fruit and veg patch so they can see their plants growing and hopefully they will have some to eat or cook with before the summer holidays. This term we will be making the following:

Coconut Kisses

Colcannon - St Patrick's Day

Brandy Snaps

Sushi

Easter Biscuits or Easter Eggs

The children will bring recipes home with them each week to put into their very own Splat Recipe Folder. The Club is aimed at children between the ages of 5-11 years old and will run for one hour 15 minutes each week from 11.30am-12.45pm, the children will bring home the goodies they have made each week as well as learning how to wash up and clean away afterwards, an essential part of cooking (!). All ingredients and utensils will be provided.

The course is booked for a half term in advance at the reduced rate of £12.50 per week but we're happy for children to join midway through the term or on a 'drop in' basis if there are spaces, this is at the weekly rate of £15. If you would like your child to 'try' out the course for one week then the charge will be £15, please call the office to discuss and check availability prior to booking.

The next course will run for 5 weeks from Saturday 25 February to 24 March inclusive, agreements must be signed before the children can take part.

Please note - if this class is full do get in touch as we do operate a waiting list for Saturday morning cooking clubs, please do register your interest if you'd like your child to go onto the list. If Beverley is unavailable due to other commitments another member of the Splat team will run the workshop if feasible. 

Mothering Sunday falls on Sunday 18 March so come along to this workshop and make your Mother some wonderful Spring Cupcakes. We'll use some of Beverley Glock's famous cupcake recipes to make and decorate her Heavenly Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes and Spring Daisy Cupcakes. We'll take you through different icing techniques including frosting, buttercream and fondant icing and inspire to create beautiful cupcakes decorations, you'll also make a Flower Pot Cake with a fresh gerbera to take home too.

The course takes place in Princes Risborough from 10am - 2pm, this is a hands on course, all ingredients, utensils and aprons will be provided. Splat reserve the right to reschedule workshops in case of illness or minimum bookings not being met. Once booked onto the course the place must be paid for in full and if you are unable to attend we're really sorry but you will not be refunded or be able to transfer to an alternative unless we can find someone else to take your place.

If you wish to travel down the evening before the course please call us for details of local hotels and bed and breakfast options.

Can't decide what to buy, you can now purchase one of our gift vouchers and pass that difficult decision on to the person you're buying the gift for, tee hee hee.

This voucher will be printed out and sent to you by post unless you request a different delivery address and a message to go with it so we can send it directly to your friend or family member..

Give a child the gift of a full day cookery workshop, these workshops are suitable for ages 8-16 and will involve real cooking, mixing, chopping, grating and heat work for appropriate ages and skill levels.

This voucher will be printed out and sent to you by post unless you request a different delivery address and a message to go with it so we can send it directly to your friend or family member.

This voucher is for any adult workshop to the value of £60 so includes our really popular Fantasy Cupcake workshops and Edible Christmas Pressie Workshop, if you would like a different value you can add to the vouchers under our Gift Certificates section

This voucher will be printed out and sent to you by post unless you request a different delivery address and a message to go with it so we can send it directly to your friend or family member.

This voucher is for any adult workshop to the value of £85 so includes our workshops where we cook and sit down and eat lunch together, if you would like a different value you can add to the vouchers under our Gift Certificates section

This voucher will be printed out and sent to you by post unless you request a different delivery address and a message to go with it so we can send it directly to your friend or family member.

Healthy, seasonal recipes and homemade bread, just the ticket to warm you up on a cold winter's day, the children will go home with their own lunch and hopefully some to share with their families as well.

The workshop will take place in Princes Risborough from 10am-1pm and costs £37.50 per child and is suitable from age 6 and above

All our workshop leaders are CRB checked and fully insured. Aprons, ingredients and suitable containers to bring the food they have cooked home in will be provided. 

Molecular Gastronomy for children and young adults - in 2 hours we'll have them creating amazing food to rival Heston Blumenthal. Forget about missing out on lunch at El Bulli, send your children to this workshop so they can recreate these gastronomic delights and share the secrets of how to make them with you too.

Caviar pears, instant jelly and ice cream, fizzing chocolates, spherified fruits - all using molecular gastronomy ingredients and techniques

The workshop will take place in Princes Risborough from 3-5pm. All our team are CRB checked and fully insured. Lab coats, mad scientist goggles, ingredients and suitable containers to bring the food they have cooked home in will be provided. Suitable for children aged 9 upwards only 

Due to the complexity of the techniques and ingredients we will not accept children under the age of 9. 

Middle Eastern Cookery brings a taste of sunshine into our kitchen at any time of year, full of fresh ingredients and flavours.

This is a hands on workshop, not a demonstration, we expect you to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in. You'll take some dishes home with you and some we'll eat for lunch.

We'll take you through traditional ingredients and spices used such as sumac and za'tar and we'll make homemade pitta bread and flat breads, slow roast tomatoes, hummus, marinated aubergines with tahini dressing, citrus chicken with greens, koftes and a refreshing pomegranate and orange pudding.

The course runs from 10.30am-2.30pm in Princes Risborough, Bucks

There is an old wives' tale which says that you can't make pastry if you have hot hands, this is rubbish, and we'll prove it. Home made pastry can be quick and easy to make, come along and we'll help you make shortcrust, choux, cheat's flaky and flaky or rough puff, we'll also go through the differences between the pastries. We'll teach you how to make spun sugar too.

This is not a demonstration, we'll be teaching you how to do it and you'll all be having a go and having lots of practice so you can take home lots of the goodies you've made such as profiteroles, quiche and fruit or meat pies.

The course runs from 10.30am-2pm. Once booked onto the course the place must be paid for in full and if you are unable to attend you will not be refunded. The course is limited to 6 places and takes place in Princes Risborough.

Ingredients: Makes 12

good pinch of saffron

2 teaspoons milk, and a little extra

150g butter

150g caster sugar

3 eggs

500g plain flour

1 tablespoon mixed spice

1 teaspoon allspice

3 tablespoons currants

You will need … Weighing scales  plates  vegetable peeler  grater  vegetable knife  colander  chopping board  wok or large frying pan  Pestle and mortar     mixing bowl   weighing scales wooden spoons   baking trays     cooling rack   

How to make soul cakes… WASH YOUR HANDS

1.        Ask an adult to put the oven on to 180c / Gas Mark 4.

2.        Crush the saffron to a powder in the pestle and mortar, add the milk and pound to combine.

3.        Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the eggs, flour and spices, beat the mixture well.  Stir in the currants and add the saffron and milk mixture.  Add a little more milk if the mixture is too dry, it should form a soft dough.

4.        Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and shape into flat cakes around 5-6cm across.  Place on a greased baking tray.

5.        Ask an adult to put into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until lightly golden.  Leave them on the tray to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Drop scones or scotch pancakes are very quick and simple to make, using store cupboard ingredients they make a super tea time treat, serve with lemon and sugar or butter and jam

Drop Scones

Ingredients: for about 24

• 220g self raising flour
• 2 eggs
• 4-6 tablespoons milk
• 100g caster sugar
• Butter for pan

How to make drop scones - WASH YOUR HANDS

1. Sieve the flour into the bowl, make a well in the centre.
2. Crack the eggs into the jug and add the milk. Beat with fork until well mixed and add to the well in the flour.  
3. Start mixing the batter in the middle of the bowl and gradually draw in the flour from the edges. The batter should be thick.  
4. Ask an adult to put on the frying pan and add about a teaspoon of butter. When the butter sizzles the pan is ready, lower the temperature slightly and using a spoon lower a spoonful of batter into the pan, let it cook for 3-4 minutes and then turn over and cook the other side. When it is cooked move it to the plate and cover with tea towel to keep it warm. Cook the rest of the batter. 
5. Serve with butter, jam, syrup whatever you fancy! And enjoy

CIEH Level 2 Award in food Hygiene in Catering is held in or around Princes Risborough on the dates below, or if you have a number of people to be trained we can travel to you, depending on where you are. There is a minimum fee of £510 or 6 people for this bespoke service so please call to discuss dates. This is a one day course with the training and exam taking place on the same day. Please call to confirm places are available on your preferred date prior to booking, payment is required at the time of booking and once your place has been reserved no refund will be given if you are unable to attend.

Please note that you must attend both sessions, the exam will take place at the end of the final session but you will only be allowed to take the exam if you have completed both parts of the course

Part 1 - Wednesday 25 August 1.30pm-5.30pm

Park 2 - Thursday 9.30am-1.30pm

 

We'll put on one of our Fantasy Cupcakes or Posh Icing workshops just for you and group of friends and we'll come to your home and run it if you prefer. The price is £395 for up to 6 people for a 3 hour workshop, additional people are £60 each. We can offer this service, subject to agreement, in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Essex, London and Hertfordshire, there may be an additional mileage charge but we can sort this out at the time of booking.