Cupcake Workshops: A Mindful Activity Which Boost Mental Health and Wellbeing

In today’s fast-paced, often stressful work environment, it’s crucial to find ways to unwind and support mental health. Our cupcake workshops offer a unique solution by combining creativity, mindfulness, and team bonding, making them an ideal activity for enhancing employee wellbeing.

Did you know that Cupcake Decorating is a Mindful Activity?

The process of cupcake decorating taps into mindfulness principles. Similar to meditation, decorating cupcakes requires participants to focus on the present moment—whether it’s piping the frosting, choosing decorations, or adding fine details. This helps reduce stress by taking attention away from daily worries and encourages a state of flow, where time seems to slow down and participants become absorbed in the task. Research shows that engaging in mindful activities like this can significantly lower anxiety and improve emotional regulation .

Creative Expression = Emotional Wellbeing

Creative activities like cupcake decorating offer an outlet for self-expression, which is key to emotional health. When employees engage in hands-on tasks that let them personalise and create, it boosts their mood and fosters a sense of accomplishment. Studies suggest that creative expression also triggers the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with feelings of pleasure and satisfaction, enhancing over all mental health & well being .

The Power of Social Connection:

Our workshops don’t just provide a solo creative activity—they are also a team-building exercise that encourages social interaction. In an era where social isolation and workplace stress can take a toll on mental health, activities that foster social connections are more important than ever. Engaging with colleagues in a fun, relaxed environment improves communication, strengthens team bonds, and promotes a positive work culture, which is vital for long-term employee wellbeing.

Result:

By offering our cupcake workshops as part of your corporate wellness programs, you can provide a mindful, creative, and enjoyable experience that improves both mental health and team cohesion. These workshops are more than just a fun event—they are a powerful tool for fostering emotional wellbeing and reducing workplace stress.

Want to know more about how these workshops can benefit your team? Let’s connect!

Unique Team Building Activities: How Cake Workshops Boost Team Morale

Fun employee engagement activities

Looking for unique team building activities that promote fun, creativity, and boosting team collaboration? Cake decorating workshops offer the perfect blend of engagement and team bonding. In these interactive stress-relieving corporate events sessions, employees work together to create delicious masterpieces, fostering communication, reducing stress, and building stronger connections.

Our creative team bonding events & workshops are ideal for teams seeking hands-on corporate experiences and innovative team building ideas. By encouraging collaborative team activities, we help businesses boost employee morale through creativity and shared experiences.

Whether it’s a break from the office routine or part of a corporate retreat, cake decorating workshops provide a memorable and enjoyable team-building experience. If you are looking for any other interactive and engaging event ideas then let us know here and we will let you know our different options.

Bento cake influencer event

We love working with content creators and adore creating cute little bento cakes so were very excited about working with The Ripple on their new product launch.

As they were launching a new strawberry flavoured vape, we created delicious vanilla sponge bento cakes, filled with a yummy, fresh strawberry buttercream.

As you can see the influencers did a great job decorating their bento cakes and had loads of fun learning new piping skills. This was duch a fun event and we look forward to working with them on the next one….

Influencer Events London

PlayStation Influencer Event London.

I just came across these pics and wanted to share them. This was a fantastic cake making workshop and one of the first influencer events we did many years ago.

This was an event that was put on by Sony Playstation. They wanted to create an interactive, creative environment for their ‘Mummy Bloggers’ and their families to engage in all things Playstation. We were able to help them by creating a variety of edible ‘on brand’ cake decorations.These included; sugar paste lego blocks, Fifa balls & football shoes, rice paper logos and edible control symbols. This tied in well with the purpose of the event which was to allow the guest families to try out all the different games in their collection.

As you can see the lovely Debra James AKA Bowel Babe was there and bathing us all in our light as was her way.

Workplace Events For Wellness

Did you know that cake decorating is a mindful activity?

All food preparation is a mindful activity and provides a chance to slow down and appreciate the many sensations that food creates.

Mindfulness is a state of being completely focused on the present moment, without dwelling on or reacting to your thoughts.

In a Cookie Girl workshop…

1. You will focus on the task in hand and disconnect from the every day rush.

2. You will feel the benefits of a break from your phone, and all technology.

3. Being creative, frees the mind of stressful thoughts and enhances well-being.

4. You will learn techniques of piping and other icing styles, to express your artistic self. 

5. You will experience a post activity lift to your mental wellbeing.

6. You will also experience the additional mood boost of showing and sharing your cakes that you take home to your loved ones.

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Mindful activities experienced on a regular basis  have been shown to:

1. Increase staff productivity.

2. Reduce sick days due to stress.

3. Give employees a sense of happiness in their jobs by increasing opportunities for ‘play’

4. Generally increase well-being created by the team bonding experience.

The best thing about our Cookie Girl workshops is that the mindful benefits are all part of a light-hearted and joyful treat for participants, provided by their company. 

Tech Company Workplace Events

New Staff integration for Tech Company

It was such a joy bringing our cake making workshop to Palantir Technologies. They wanted to create both a ‘Drop in’ cake decorating area (perfect for those participants that just want to pop by and decorate a couple of cakes in their lunch breaks) and also our 2hr cupcake decorating workshop, which is great for those that want to focus on learning a new skill dset whilst having fun and bonding with each other.

Fun Icebreakers for Meetings

This was a conference meeting of 100 medical professionals. The organisers asked me to do an inspirational speech in which I shared my story about how I became Cookie Girl.

I talked about how, having started by selling cookies, door to door, to people at work, I had progressed to being the market leader for corporate cupcake experiences. After this our cake decorating class took place.

I have been a professional cake decorator for over 20 years. This has enabled me to create cake decorating classes that are not only filled with fun, but are also a great opportunity to foster culture and community in the workplace.They are shown to improve team & client relationships, create lasting bonds and improve the mental health of employees.

We have lots of other work social event ideas, including decorating biscuits and bento cakes . We are also, always excited to bring your own unique ideas to life with our bespoke options.

Recipe Book 'Eat Me!' Anniversary

I can't believe that it was 10 years ago today that my book was released!

So much has happened since then. I've had two little girls and I've also sadly lost my amazing Mumma, who played such a big part in the creation of the book. It was a big success getting to number 17 in the book charts and receiving a huge amount of press.

I felt that my life and career was on an upward swing. Nothing could have prepared me for how much having the girls was going to slow down my trajectory. Luckily, being self employed and having my own business meant I was able to mainly be a stay at home mum, which I am truly grateful for.

What I hadn't realised was how hard it would be to continue building up my profile as a performer and writer. Now, 10 years later I finally feel as if I am back to where I was then. My podcast has recently ben released, which is a fictional story based on “The Cookie Chronicles”, similar to the column I wrote for 5 years for Grove Magazine. I

t has taken a while for it to sink in that (unlike when I was first wanting to act and write) I don't need anyone's permission. I don't need a director, producer or casting director to deem me worthy to be who I want to be. I can create my own material and connect with people through it.

There are so many routes to an audience and the technology to do it ourselves. Watch this space! xxx

Cake Making Class - Unicorn Cake

This Unicorn Bento Cake Class was so much fun to host:

The vanilla sponge cakes they baked in the cake baking lesson were just delicious.

We used a mould to make the horn, ears and eyelashes using sugarpaste. This meant it was easier to achieve a professional finish than if we’d rolled the horn by hand, which can inadvertently lead to a rather inappropriate end result! I was very impressed by how well the students did with all of them getting fantastic results in the cake class.

They did a great job using a palette knife to get a smooth finish with the delicious buttercream, and they created the swirling rainbow unicorn mane by piping buttercream swirls and roses - this gave them the opportunity to get lots of practice with their buttercream piping techniques. By the end of the 3.5hr cake making class they were amazed by what they had been able to create. They went home really excited to share their Unicorn Bento Cakes with their families.

Husband & Wife Private Cake Class

Husband & Wife Private Cake decorating Classes london

Kelly’s husband Bill is a great baker. She thought it would be a perfect present to give him one of our gift certificate for a private lesson. And she decided to book a cake class for two so that they could attend together.

Bill was really keen to get his cake decorating skills to a high level so we worked through beginners, intermediate and advanced cupcake decorating techniques. I taught them both how to make cream cheese frosting which has a good ‘flow’ for piping rose swirls and classic swirls.

I also taught them how to make a firm buttercream frosting which is ideal for the advanced buttercream piping techniques. We use this to pipe ruffle swirls as well as individual petals one by one. I also explained that all the buttercream piping techniques could also be used on a full sized cake.

At the end of the 3hr cake making class they were thrilled with the end results and went home with two dozen beautiful cupcake creations to share with their friends and family.