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. 

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.

Recruitment Company - Indoor Team Building Activities

Accountancy Action Financial Recruitment Company:

They asked us to set up a cupcake decorating workshop for their regular client networking event.

It was such a fun evening. The cocktails flowed freely and the guests quickly relaxed into their cake making activity. Most of them worked in HR or Finance so don’t get much chance to be creative in their day to day roles.

They were amazed by how quickly they picked up the various buttercream swirls and loved the variety of sprinkles and edible decorations.

It was a great ice breaking activity and created a real bond between the participants. Many of whom had arrived as strangers and left as friends. All in all this cake making event was a great success.

Unicorn Cake Class

Pamela got in touch to ask if I could teach a group baking workshop for her daughter Ava’s birthday. She was turning 8 and wanted to celebrate with her family. When I found out that unicorns were her favourite then I knew that the Unicorn Cake making class would be the thing to do. The group had no experience with baking or decorating cakes and were not sure that they were up to the challenge. By the end of the 2hr cake workshop they were amazed by the end results and went home very happy with their stunning, unicorn cake creations.

Team Social Ideas London

A great time was had by all at CAA at their team bonding workshop.

We did a bit of a different cake making event on this occasion. They particularly wanted to get their hands on some fondant icing (or edible Play Doh, as I like to think of it) and create some Christmas themed cakes. They had a great time making, snow men, elves, Christmas trees and even Father Christmas.

But the winning cupcake was actually a beautiful and original snow leopard. The girl who made it was thrilled to take home her very own, personalised copy of my best selling recipe book! They were a great group who really put 100% into what they were doing and it seemed to be a lovely place to work. The group seemed really close, more like family than co-workers. And their boss seemed astonishingly young (unless it’s just a sign of me getting older!).

We really loved working with them and are looking forward to doing more events there in the future.

Our cake classes are really fun ice breakers for meetings so let us know if you have any meetings, conferences or training days we can help you with.

Cake Decorating Classes in London

The ladies at Dodo’s cupcake decorating hen had the most fun. Her friends and family were an absolute blast laughing and joking and keeping me entertained. I should have known that they were going to be an ‘up for it’ crew when Dodo arrived wearing an extremely detailed naked lady all in one! Once we had got over the initial hilarity of that they knuckled down to learning all my expert cake piping tips. Before long they had mastered the art of cake decorating with buttercream swirls and even created some of there own experimental designs. One of the girls was so good I asked if she wanted to join the Cookie Girl team! At the end of the two hour cake making workshop they were absolutely thrilled with their cupcake creations. Dodo wasn’t sure where they were headed next (it was a magical mystery tour type of hen) but she was very excited to get home and share her little cupcake works of art with her husband to be.

Vineet's Cake Decorating Birthday Party

Vineet was celebrating a significant birthday and wanted to celebrate with her closest friends by having a creative time doing a cake making workshop with us. They were a lovely bunch of girls who couldn’t wait to get started piping buttercream swirls onto the delicious cakes I had made. There was time to have a glass of bubbly whilst they waited for the last couple of girls to arrive. They were soon getting stuck in trying out their piping skills on a variety of different buttercream swirl techniques. They were soon getting the hang of it and making professional looking cupcakes. They absolutely loved the vast array of decoration that we had, especially the rainbow unicorns and mermaid sprinkles. The girls found the cake class a great ice breaker and way to bond as not all the girls knew each other. They piped, they laughed and they got competitive. At the end of the workshop they agreed that they had absolutely loved learning a new skill and were excited to get practicing the next time they baked. In the mean time they couldn’t wait to take the cakes back to share with their families.

Cake Decorating Workshops London Venue

Introducing our fantastic new bright, light West London venue. It is a fantastic place for hen parties, birthday parties and cake classes. Basically here we can cover all your cake making and cupcake decorating needs. It is also a great environment for conference activities, team building and client events. So whatever your cake making related needs we are pretty sure that this is the ideal venue for us to host it in. We are also now offering cocktail making workshops alongside our cake making classes which have proved really popular with our hen parties and we plan to begin offering them to our corporate clients for their company events.

Cake Decorating Class in London

Here is our first cake making class at our new venue in White City. When we decided to move back to our own flat for various reasons we knew that we would not have space to have anything other than small private lessons there. Initially, we put all our group cake decorating classes on hold. I really wasn’t sure what we would do with regards to a location. Then I remembered that when we had left the area 8 yrs ago the company that were building the Imperial College building at the end of our road, offered to build us a community centre. I went to have a look at it and I couldn’t believe how perfect it was for our fun filled cake making hen parties, team building events and cake classes. Now that we have done a few events there they seem very keen for us to book in as many cake workshops as possible. Also, because it seats up to 80 and even has a projector screen (perfect for powerpoint) it is ideal for conferences, networking and client events. I look forward to sharing lots more images of the various cake classes and workshops that we have planned there.

Cake Decorating Class London

This group of students did a fantastic job at their cupcake decorating class. They had all taken part in the beginners cake making class and now wanted to improve their cake icing skills. This class is great for preparing you to tackle the more advanced cake icing techniques as it begins to get you to work on a smaller scale with greater detailing. As long as you are able to pipe an icing rose then you will be able to manage the content in this 2hr workshop. You will focus on flat icing the cupcakes with a palette knife before going on to pipe miniature roses and rosette designs on top. I then show you a fantastic and deceptively simple technique for piping on leaves without using a nozzle. It is just created by cutting the piping bag in a particular way. These girls had all mastered the techniques during the intermediate cake decorating class and are planning to attend our advanced cupcake decorating class soon. We are also really pleased to be able to offer these classes to our corporate clients for their team building, networking and client events.