TOP 10 BAKING CLASSES IN WATERLOO, CANADA

Learn how to make a Sourdough starter and Bake Chocolate Brownies, Apple Tarts, Doughnuts, Stroopwafel, Cinnamon Rolls and Tarte Tatin (Puff Pastry).

The Cooking Club serves up cooking classes, bake sales, barbeques, and other food related adventures. We cover the full spectrum of foods from fancy sushi rolling classes to quick and dirty tips to help you manage the necessary evil known as ‘cooking during midterms’.

You will learn to make the perfect hamburger bun and other styles of bread rolls from start to finish. These buns and rolls use only basic ingredients, but with superior results that you can easily achieve in your own kitchen at home.

You will learn to use wholegrains to make deep-flavoured and healthy bread worth eating. You will grind your own whole wheat and spelt flours at the workshop and use these to bake bread that you can easily achieve in your own kitchen at home.

Sourdough is a symbiotic culture of bacteria (lactobacilli) and airborne fungus (wild yeast) in which each element within the relationship provides something the other element needs.

The key to artisan baking consists of using wholesome, clean (free of preservatives and additives) ingredients and slow fermentation. The slow rising of the dough gives enzymes enough time to break down complex carbohydrates therefore making the bread easier to digest.