Cake & Craft Decorating

Aim: We aimed to help Turkish Cypriots and Turkish speaking community living in and surrounding boroughs of Hackney to build a caring friendship network and supporting environment for better health. We achieved this by teaching cake and craft decorating skills to strengthen participants’ ability to fulfil their life. 

PLANNED AND DELIVERED ACTIVITIES ARE:
30 session of art and craft course session, (3 hrs pw.)
20 session of cake decorating course sessions (3 hrs pw.)
2 Daily Coach trip to attractions (9.00-19.00) 

ART AND CRAFT COURSE is delivered in 10 session by 5 different artists on the following dates:

Decorating techniques on wood and fabric:
Trays, table mats and other objects decorated by stencilling, collage art and wood block printing techniques on fabrics. The trainer delivered sessions to teach all techniques used fabric, wooden materials. Participants decorated trays, table mats and t-shirt and fabrics and really appreciated the techniques and skills learnt as they would be able to use them in their daily life.

Artist: Nurdan Sağlam

Dates and hours: 11.00 – 2.00 on
5.3.2018 and 8.3.2018,
5.5.2018,
21.5.2018 and 23.5.2018,
28.5.2018 and 31.5.2018,
4.6.2018 and 6.6.2018

Clay art sessions: making objects, figures and plates using clay.
Trainer: Aysenil Şenkul
Dates: 2 sessions of workshops delivered.
5.4.2018 at 11.00 – 2.00
12.4.2018 at 11.00 – 2.00
10 learners attended.

Designing cards: Designer: Mehtap Korkmaz Dates: 8.3.2018
Everyone decorated their cards by paper cutting techniques.

Marbling art on small frames: Dilek Tokgönül   Dates: 9.3.2018 – 15.3.2018
Everyone practiced decorating mugs, little frames.

CAKE DECORATING COURSE CONTENT:

10 session of cake decorating course is delivered teaching making Victoria sponge cake, making royal icing, sugar paste covering with icing and decorating techniques used are crimping, embossing, ribbons, bows, sugar paste decorating: sugar embroidery, lace, borders and others, stencil cutting, sugar paste modelling: fun figures, simple modelling and making Marzipan cake covering, modelling, making flowers and caricature figures. Butter cream, making royal icing, run out and flooding to use for piping with different nozzles, lettering, cake borders. Decorating baby biscuits: inlay and applique, textures and decorating cupcakes. Assessment is done by decorating 2 layered stacked cake with their own design.

1. Group started 23.2.2018 – 11.4.2018
   Trainer- Rubby Buffong and Mustafa Kiranoglu
2. Group ended on 15 May 2018 – 28 June 2018 Tuesday and Thursdays
   Trainer: Ms. Rubby Buffong
3. Group – Advanced level: Rose, lilly, peony, orchid flower making
   Dates: 11.10.2018 – 13.12.2018 Trainer: Ms. Rubby Buffong

Funded by Awards For All