Learn the skills and techniques behind French pastries in this hands-on baking class, which will equip you with the confidence to make a wide variety of baked goods at home.
Creating perfect pastries requires a keen understanding of not just ingredients, but also methods. Once you’ve mastered a few essential pastry techniques, your baking possibilities are endless.
This class will cover shortcrust tarts, which you can use for both sweet and savoury fillings; choux pastry, which forms the base of eclairs, profiteroles, and gougères; and pastry cream, which will teach you how to emulsify egg-based mixtures into stable creams.
At the end of the class, you'll take home a wonderful tart filled with vanilla crème pâtissière and decorated with a variety of fruits and whipped cream. We'll also make chocolate eclairs and profiteroles.
Our cook school teaches skill- and technique-based lessons that help you become a confident, more intuitive cook. In other words, it helps you take your eyes off recipes and rely on your instincts.
Our cook school has one goal: to teach you how to become a confident, more intuitive cook. In other words, to help you take your eyes off the recipe and trust your instincts.
Located in our Chiswick, Hampstead and Islington stores, our classes provide a small, hands-on learning environment. You’ll be using the top-quality knives and cookware we carry on our shelves and get proper attention from a trained chef. All of our savoury classes end with you sitting down as a group to enjoy the meal you have made (trust us, you’ll have leftovers). For our fermentation, preserves, and pudding classes, you'll get to take home everything you've made.
Our chefs will guide you through different pastry skills as you cook up some comfort food classics using buttery pâte sablée and flaky rough puff, plus rich and golden hot water crust pastry.
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This study programme is for you if you have a true love and passion for baking.
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