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Cake decorating girls trips, a cake by committee

Piping bags, sprinkles and a cake decorated by committee, with at least one friend who takes the rosettes very seriously. Pick the class, pick your city, and get this girls trip out of the group chat.

What it is
A cake or cupcake decorating class
Make it a weekend
Pick your city, pick a weekend
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast
Weekends from
$379 per person, somewhere to stay included
Two friends hugging mid leap in front of birthday balloons

Why cake decorating works for a girls trip

Everyone is a judge on a baking show.

Every group has the friend who watches baking shows like they’re sport, and the one who has never once got a cake out of the tin in one piece.

Making something side by side does something a dinner booking can’t. Hands busy, icing everywhere, and the real conversation drifting in while someone concentrates very hard on a rosette.

And every cake ends up looking a little like the woman who decorated it. The table has opinions about all of them.

The sprinkles get everywhere. So do the stories.

What a cake decorating class is like

Pipe, smooth, sprinkle, repeat.

A cake decorating class usually means a cake or a batch of cupcakes each, bowls of icing, piping bags and decorations, and someone showing the group a few techniques before everyone goes their own way.

  1. Piping bags at the ready.

    A quick demonstration, and then everyone trying it on their own cake, with very mixed results.

  2. Decorated by committee.

    Somebody goes minimal, somebody goes for every sprinkle on the table, and the group has notes.

  3. Quality control.

    Someone has to taste the icing. Several someones, usually.

  4. Two friends hugging in a kitchen

    Then make it a weekend.

    Book it, then pick a girls weekend in your city, with somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next, already in an order that works.

Get this girls trip out of the group chat

Pick a weekend, pick your city.

Each is a whole girls weekend with somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next already in an order that works. Each city’s page has every other girls weekend there.

Prices are from, per person, for a minimum of six (seven for the Brisbane weekend). Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact dates.

The girls in red aprons rolling out gnocchi dough side by side at a floury bench

Melbourne

In carbs we trust

Carbs and Chaos

A hands on gnocchi masterclass with lunch, pizza and bubbly by the river, then a rooftop with a bottle for the group.

From $449 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • A gnocchi masterclass with a chef, and lunch
  • Your handmade gnocchi to take home
  • Riverside dinner with bubbles on arrival and gourmet pizzas
  • A bottle of bubbly at a rooftop garden bar
Six friends in bright outfits posing together at dinner by the water

Sydney

Remind me to tell you

Absolute Tea, Tea, Tea

High tea on tiers with a glass of bubbly, dinner by the water with a choice of main, then whatever’s left of the backlog taken up to a rooftop with a bottle for the group.

From $449 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • Tiered high tea with bubbles on arrival
  • Harbourside dinner with a choice of main
  • Rooftop drinks with a bottle of bubbly
  • A discounted cocktail menu
Two friends laughing with an arm in the air on a night out

Brisbane

The tea has been brewing for months

Spill The Tea

High tea in a pink dining room where the tea and coffee keep coming, dinner under the neon, then a bottle of bubbly under the festoons.

From $379 per person, minimum of seven

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • Tiered high tea with tea and coffee
  • Bubbles on arrival and share plates at a neon dining room
  • A discounted cocktail menu
  • A bottle of bubbly at a tropical garden bar
Four friends dancing and pulling faces by a pool bar at night

Gold Coast

Every round comes with a confession

Confessions Of A Cocktail Lover

’I’ll tell you properly when I see you.’ Two cocktails each at a private class, mimosas and share plates at a beachfront restaurant, then a bottle of bubbly on the rooftop, where the good confessions come out.

From $479 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic coastal apartment
  • A private cocktail class with your own bartender, two cocktails each
  • Bubbles on arrival
  • Beachfront dining with mimosa sips and shared plates
  • A rooftop beach club with a bottle of bubbly

What kind of girls group cake decorating suits

The bakers and the tasters.

It suits the friend who watches baking shows like they’re sport, and the one who just wants to eat the leftovers.

Friends laughing around a long dinner table at dessert

The ones who want to make something.

Hands busy, icing everywhere, a cake at the end.

Zero baking skills required.

Nobody’s cake is wrong. Some are just more confident.

The sweet tooth crowd.

Quality control is part of the job.

Every age at the table.

From the twenty somethings to the friends who’ve been to every birthday since school.

A milestone birthday.

A cake everyone helped make.

Friends from different chapters.

Nothing breaks the ice like a piping bag disaster.

What pairs well with cake decorating

Weekends with the same make it and eat it feel.

More ideas to stack onto the same weekend, each with its own page.

Gnocchi making

A hands on masterclass, and lunch made by the chef. Its own weekend in Melbourne.

More on gnocchi making

High tea

Tiered stands and something sparkling. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

More on high tea

Cocktail making

A host and a shaker each. Its own weekends in every city.

More on cocktail making

Pizza making

Dough, toppings and the last slice. An extra on one Melbourne weekend.

More on pizza making

Chocolate making

Very serious quality control.

More on chocolate making

Candle making

Another make something weekend. Its own weekend in Sydney and on the Gold Coast.

More on candle making

Bottomless brunch

A long table and drinks that keep coming. Its own weekends in every city.

More on bottomless brunch

A girls night in

Grazing at the door and nobody leaving early. Its own weekends in every city.

More on girls nights in

Every food and drink girls trip idea

Good to know about cake decorating for a girls trip

The small things the girls will ask about.

Making it a weekend

Book it separately, then pick a girls weekend in your city.

Skill level

None needed for a typical class.

The weekends above

A gnocchi masterclass, high tea or a cocktail class, each inside a whole weekend with somewhere to stay.

Photos

Cakes up, everyone in. What goes on socials is the group’s call.

Cake decorating girls trips, at a glance

What it is
A cake or cupcake decorating class: icing, piping bags, decorations and a few techniques.
Make it a weekend
Pick your city and a girls weekend, then book it separately.
Group size
From six of you (seven for the Brisbane weekend). Fewer? Tell us how many when you check your dates.
Price
The weekends start from $379 per person, with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates.
Who runs it
My Ultimate Girls Trip, part of My Ultimate, female founded in 2011.

Real girls trip reviews

In their own words, exactly as written.

Five women raising their glasses over shared plates at a long lunch

We had a fantastic experience dealing with My Ultimate.

Friendly, responsive and very knowledgeable. Every part of the conversation felt tailored to what I had actually told them rather than a scripted sales process.

For anyone who is trying to organise several personalities and wants some certainty around the decision, I would definitely recommend speaking to them.

Patricia Murphy, 65
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Everyone kept saying I'd nailed it.

Obviously I told them it was all me.

Sorry My Ultimate.

Emma L., 32

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My Ultimate has been creating unforgettable girls weekends since 2011, so we know a thing or two about bringing the girls together.

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A class, or a whole girls weekend

Make it, eat it, keep going.

Plenty of groups book a class and have a lovely couple of hours. Then everyone’s on the footpath holding a box, working out where dinner is and who’s heading home.

A My Ultimate weekend is the whole thing in one booking: somewhere to stay, something to do built in, the food, the drinks and where to next, so the day turns into a weekend together.

Somewhere to stay, already in it.One living room for the getting ready, the debrief and the morning coffee.
One front door at the end of the night.Everyone heads home to the same place.
You’re in the photo.In the photo with the girls, not organising it.

Meet Nyree, who started My Ultimate in 2011

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Girls trip idea: gnocchi making, high tea or cocktail making, with somewhere to stay for all of us.

From $379pp. Who’s in?

https://www.myultimate-girls-trip.com.au/cake-decorating-girls-trip

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Cake decorating girls trip questions

Asked a lot, answered here.

Still deciding? See what pairs well with cake decorating, or pick your city and see the weekends.

Can we decorate cakes on our girls trip?

Yes, book it separately and pick a girls weekend in your city to build the trip around. A good fit: gnocchi making in Melbourne, high tea in Sydney and Brisbane, and cocktail making on the Gold Coast.

What happens at a cake decorating class?

Usually a cake or a batch of cupcakes each, icing, piping bags and decorations, and someone showing a few techniques before everyone goes their own way.

Do you need baking experience?

Not for a typical decorating class. The cake is usually ready when you arrive.

How much are the weekends?

The weekends shown start from $379 per person, with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact weekend when you check availability.

Is one of these weekends good for a birthday?

A lovely one. A toast, and somewhere to stay for everyone.

How many of us do we need?

Six for most of the weekends, seven for the Brisbane one. Fewer than that? Let us know how many of you there are. We cater for groups of many sizes.