Weekly classes
After school and Saturday mornings, in six-week blocks.
Sweets you made yourself, still warm
A working sugar bench in Stoneybatter where children boil, pull, mould and take home everything they make.
No nuts in the building
Garda vetted staff
Twelve children per class
Everything gets made, nothing gets watched
There is no demonstration table here. Each child has their own place at the bench, their own thermometer, their own tray, and by the end of two hours they have made something they can name and explain to somebody else.
Sugar work is the reason this workshop exists. It is chemistry that happens at speed, it smells extraordinary, and a nine-year-old who has watched sugar go from clear to amber in forty seconds does not forget what heat does to it.
How the workshop runs
What we run
Four ways to spend an afternoon here
Birthday parties
Two hours, your own room, everyone goes home with what they made.
Holiday camps
Three and five-day camps at midterm, Easter and summer.
Family sessions
One adult and one child working at the same bench, no experience needed.
Timetable
Six classes, each one two hours
Every class ends with a box. Nothing made here stays here.
Lollipops and pulled candy
Boiling sugar to hard crack, pulling it while it is warm, and shaping lollipops on sticks.
What happens in this class
Rock with letters through it
The one everybody wants to understand: how the letters get in, and why they run all the way through.
What happens in this class
Gummy and jelly lab
Gelatine, pectin and setting times, with moulds the children fill themselves.
What happens in this class
Honeycomb and chocolate
Bicarbonate foaming, tempering by hand, and dipping what comes out of it.
What happens in this class
Family Saturday bench
One adult and one child at the same bench for two hours. Our most booked session.
What happens in this class
Teen sugar art
Pulled sugar ribbons, blown sugar spheres and the beginnings of showpiece work.
What happens in this class
Safety
Hot sugar, handled properly
Boiling sugar reaches 150 °C and we are not casual about it. Staff pour anything above 140 °C; children take over once it is on the slab, in gloves, at a temperature that will not burn.
- One member of staff per six children in the youngest classes
- Every member of staff Garda vetted and first-aid trained
- No nuts anywhere in the building, in any class, ever
- Allergen list for each class sent with the booking confirmation
Est. 2017in Stoneybatter
12children per class
6classes on the timetable
0nuts in the building
Parties
Three party packages
Your own room, your own staff, and a box of sweets in every hand on the way out.
The Short One
€18
per child, minimum 8
- 90 minutes in your own room
- Two sweets made and boxed
- Aprons, ingredients and clean-up
- Room for parents at the back
The Full One
€26
per child, minimum 8
- 2 hours 30 in your own room
- Three sweets made and boxed
- Party table, plates and cups
- A tray of leftovers to take home
The Whole Workshop
€560
flat, up to 24 children
- 3 hours, the entire workshop
- Four stations running at once
- Two staff plus a floating helper
- Set-up and clean-up included
Holiday camps
Three and five-day camps, midterm to summer
Camps run 10am to 2pm and build across the week rather than repeating: hard sweets on day one, gummies on day two, chocolate and honeycomb on day three, and a showpiece on the last afternoon that goes home in a box big enough to need two hands.
- Midterm, Easter and eight weeks across the summer
- Twelve places per camp, siblings booked together on request
- Bring lunch; we supply everything else including the apron