Fair Cake

I attended the 5 day Baking and Cake Decorating course in September 2023. What a wonderful experience and well worth the travel down from the north of England to Brighton. The setting and the delivery of the course were perfect. Students are given top quality products to work with. The pace of the course was just right, steady enough to follow but jam packed from start to finish with methods and tips. I can't believe how much I learnt and it exceeded all my expectations. Despite me not having any baking experience, Uma's skill in demonstrating and guiding the class through basics of baking and icing enabled me to leave the course with a bag full of amazing cookies and cakes! I would highly recommend attending this course as it has provide me with confidence to experiment and create my own cakes in the future. Thank you to Uma for all your patience!

I spent the week doing the Modern Wedding Cakes course and had an absolute BLAST. Uma is a fantastic teacher and I learned so much and had loads of fun. Would recommend to absolutely anyone regardless of skill level. I feel much more equipped to make my sister’s wedding cake next summer and have so many new skills to show off :)

I have now done two courses here, one was a sugar flower course and the other was a Tiered cake course with silver leaf, sugar flowers and most importantly straight edges!I love both classes and have definitely taken away a number of skills. The teach is very friendly, you can ask her anything even if its not relevant to the actual class and she is always happy to provide an answer.The skills are jam packed into the course so you have to be prepared to concentrate and learn and take it all in which is a bit hard. I would have preferred doing less of some skills (like the flowers as there is a whole other class for it) and spent more time perfecting my straight edges!Also I would have like more guidance when I was going wrong - it was always given when asked but sometimes it would have been nice for the teacher to actively go round and check a bit more.I thoroughly enjoyed both classes (and all the cups of tea!!) and will definitely be going back! The fact that you get to take a three tier cake home at the end is great (although slightly tricky on the bus!) and I'm still using the flowers I made a year on!

I took the cake baking and decorating class and would say it’s an excellent class, but only if you have some baking experience. Uma is extremely organized and obviously knows her craft. Join the course if you’re a bit rusty and need a refresher or want to improve your cake decorating skills.Just note that it’s NOT a beginner’s class.As someone who has never baked before, my inexperience was quite pronounced in class and the pace leaned towards those who were more experienced.There was very little room for mistakes, hence a lot of pressure to get things right, even at the first try.In future I suggest the trainer hires an assistant who can take off some pressure and give some support to those who are inexperienced.Nonetheless, I’ll recommend - only if you have experience and are looking for a brush up.

I have had the most fantastic week doing the vegan cake baking and decorating course. Uma is an excellent teacher - well organised, patient, and great to chat to. She took the time to demonstrate and explain everything clearly and in detail, and I have learnt so many new techniques and tips to elevate my bakes! I would highly recommend to anyone looking to explore vegan and free from cakes!

I attended the Contemporary Tiered Wedding Cakes 6 day course and loved it! I had limited experience with tiered cakes, and no fondant experience prior to starting but really feel I have developed skills that will keep me in good stead for starting my own wedding cake business. The workshop is brilliant, a perfect place to learn and Shikhita is a wonderful teacher. She has been only to happy to help, even after the course finished!It was intense and we covered loads of skills/topics, but the time just flew. I was disappointed when it was time to finish. 5 stars!!

I just finished up the 5 module online class and really enjoyed it! I am just getting into cake decorating, but found the course to be very helpful and easy to understand. Beyond the beautiful cakes and frostings, there are so many little tips and tricks to help with consistent results, which is what we're all trying to achieve. I am in the US, so there are differences in some of our ingredients, but I just googled substitutions. I hope to attend a class in person, because Uma and her team were a delight to learn from.

I attended the Ganache master class in Sept’23 and I have to say that I feel very confident on learning a new skill. Uma is a brilliant tutor. She is very organised and patient and makes sure you have understood the techniques involved to master the skill. I highly recommend Fair Cakes and I will definitely be doing more courses and learning new cake decorating skills from Fair cakes in the future as they have exceeded my expectations! Thanks Uma.

This course was amazing! The teacher was very organized/structured with the day to day activities and went at the perfect pace in which our class was able to take in lots of information in and we didn’t just wait around. The Teacher was very kind, funny, and was able to explain everything clearly. I would definitely recommend Fair Cakes and would want to do it again!!