Classes

CAKE DECORATING

Cake Decorating Essentials

2.5 Hours $65.00

hands on

Don't know which end of the pastry bag is up? In this class learn how to make decorator icing, frost a cake, pipe borders and flowers, then create a custom decorated cake to wow your family and friends. You may never buy a bakery cake again. Cakes, icing and decorating tools are provided for use in class. Good for any age over 12.

Cake Decorating the Wilton Way

Four 2 hour sessions

$35.00 each course

hands on

Learn the essentials and more in these 4 lesson cake decorating classes. Course 1 skills include borders, figure piping, pattern transfer and ROSES.

Course 2 includes basketweave, royal icing flowers and color flow.

Course 3 includes fondant and tiered cakes.

Class fee included full color lesson plan and Wilton Certificate of Completion

Students must provide icing, cakes, and purchase basic decorating kit for each course.

Icings Workshop

2 Hours $25.00

Can't bake from scratch? Don't worry. Learn how to make decorator icing, stabilized whipped cream and 2 different buttercreams to make that boxed cake taste just like homemade.

Rolled Fondant

2.5 Hours $75.00

hands on

Beautiful, satiny smooth cakes are trendy and elegant. Learn how simple it is to create these works of art with fondant. Cakes, fondant and supplies are furnished for use in class.

Roses, Roses, Roses

2 hours

$35.00

hands on

Spend some quality time mastering the #1 requested flower for cakes.

Learn roses, half roses, and rosebuds..

GENERAL CLASSES

Butter Sugar Flour Eggs Baking from scratch.

Kitchen Required

2.5 hours $35.00

Rediscover the lost art of making delicious memories from the best ingredients. Class covers ingredient function, essential tools, and wonderful heirloom recipes to fill your recipe box.

Baking For Health

2 Hours $25.00

(Great for Church events, health seminars)

Learn how to take your favorite recipes and make them healthier with ingredient substitutions. Learn all new "I can't believe it's healthy" chocolate recipes.

Creative Confections

3 hours

30.00

hands on

Introduction to recipes and methods for simple, delicious treats to increase gift making choices or expand business opportunities. Wedding celebrations, baby showers, seasonal parties or any special event will be even more special with treats you make.

Children/Scouts

Let your children "Mix things up" in a fun and easy environment. Perfect for birthday parties. Cakewalk Chicago helps you to build the foundation for your family traditions in the kitchen. Children get excited about creating food and being in the kitchen. And don’t forget the educational benefits, cooking using math, science, reading and art!

All foods, and supplies included. Cost is per child. Please provide 1 adult assistant for every 6 children. Childrens classes $25.00 unless otherwise noted. Party fee click link below.

All childrens classes are hands on and 1 to 1.5. hours unless otherwise indicated. Children Parties click here.

Preschooler with Mom/Dad $8.00 1 hour

Each child gets to decorate cookies or make molded candies with Mom/Dad.

Baking Basics 2 hours

6 and up Kitchen Required

Learn kitchen safety, ingredient function, measurig skills and many more lessons as you bake from scratch. Make 3 recipes from versatile biscuit dough or choose to make sweet and savory muffins.

Tea Party 2 hours

6 and up Kitchen Required

In this class students will work to create a classic tea that can be sampled by all moms and dads at the end of the class! Classic fare such as Tea Scones, Fruit Spreads, Tea Sandwiches and the like are just a few of the items students will make..oh and tea of course. Moms will be so proud!

Cake Decorating

6 and up

Have a wonderful time decorating your very own cake.. Use a variety of colored frosting and candies to make your very own masterpiece.

Mixes For Your Light Bulb Oven

Ages 4 and Up

$15.00

Dust off that kid sized oven. Make easy, affordable mixes to use in your mini oven or your or your own full sized oven. Perfect playtime activity for vacation.

Candy Clay

Great for all ages

$15.00

Better not tell them its edible before they start working or they'll eat up this candy modeling clay before they get to make cute animals and fun things to adorn cakes or eat as candies.

Mommy And Me / Daddy And Me

Ages 3 And Up

Pizza Party

Kitchen required

Make family night even more fun and save tons of money when you put together the perfect pizza at home. Pizza dough is so easy and so much fun to make, and kids love creating their own individual pizzas from a ton of toppings. One adult and one child per pizza.

Lotions and Potions

Your kitchen is the laboratory where you create your own candy lip gloss, lavender scented powder, and fragrant bath salts. Each participant will create products to keep or to give as special gifts.

Adults Only

Martinis and Munchies

2 hours

$65.00pp

21 and older

Learn the secrets of stocking your bar and mixing some of the hottest martinis and surprisingly easy finger foods to accompany your homemade happy hour.

"Hot" Chocolate

2 hours

$35.00pp

21 and older

Girls Night Out? Bridal Shower? Gather some friends and learn the basics of melting, coloring, and flavoring confectionary coating using "hot" adult themed molds. Being bad never tasted so good.

Have it Your Way

2 hours

$ beginning at 45.00pp

21 and older

Have a kitchen skill or cooking technique you've been dying to try at home? want to make fantastic theme meal? Leave the planning and shopping to Cakewalk Chicago and invite a group of friends to share in the fun of preparing and and feasting.