Baking Classes
Cakes or Cupcakes
Learn to make a delicious cake. We will pair the cake or cupcake baking lesson with lessons on making fillings and frostings.
French Macarons
Learn the Italian Meringue method of making macarons. You will make the beautifully colored shells and premium fillings, build your delicious confections and take home a large box (approximately 36) of macarons.
Cookies
Take your cookie baking to the next level. With all of our cookie lessons students take home a HUGE box of cookies to share .. or not!
Tira Misu
Learn to make light and airy lady fingers that you will dip in premium espresso. You will layer in delicious, creamy mascarpone filling and top with fine Belgian cocoa powder. This lesson is for adults only as we use mocha liqueur in this recipe.
Croissants
We will teach you to make a butter book and to laminate dough. You will make
plain and chocolate croissants that are so buttery and delicious it will be worth all
the effort. This class is 7 hours in length spread over 2 days.
Donuts
Learn to make soft pillowy donuts that are fried and dipped in several different toppings (vanilla glaze, fruit flavored glaze and cinnamon sugar sprinkle). Students take home a large box of donuts.
Eclairs & Cream Puffs
Learn to make eclairs and cream puffs with firm shells that are easy to fill and dip into a glaze. In this class we make a chocolate pastry cream filling, a whipped cream filling, apricot glaze, chocolate glaze and vanilla whipped cream topping. Students take home a large box of these absolutely delicious confections.
Breads
We teach a wide variety of breads including French baguettes, artisanal breads, French fougasse, Italian focaccia (think deep-dish pizza style bread), challah (a braided egg bread) and sour dough (with yeast and without).
Entremets
For students who are serious about French Pastry, we have a 2-day, six hour class on making these fabulous and beautiful French desserts.
Pastry: Pies & Tarts
Choose your favorite pie or tart and learn to make a tender, flakey crust and delicious filling.
Gluten-free Baking
In our private and group baking lessons, we offer gluten-free, flourless (gluten-free), egg-free, and dairy-free options.
Pavlovas
Pavlovas have a base of crunchie meringue. They are filled with regular or dairy-free fruit curds and topped with a variety of fresh fruits. They are gluten-free, light and airy.
Cakes or Cupcakes
Learn to make a delicious cake. Choose your favorite cake (or select cupcakes) from the following lessons.
French Cakes:
- Biscuit (pronounced bis-kwee), this is a French sponge. We suggest you start here.
- Génoise (hot and cold process)
- Progres
- Succes
- Japonais
- Dacquoises
European Cakes:
- Doberge
- Sacher Torte
American Cakes:
- Gluten-free Vanilla and fruit flavors
- Flourless (gluten-free) Chocolate
- Egg-free
- Dairy-free
- Carrot
- Pound
- Chiffon
- Bakery-style
- Cupcakes
We will pair the cake or cupcake baking lesson with lessons on making fillings and frostings.
Fillings may include: pastry cream, mousse, cremeux, truffle (dark, milk or white chocolate), or citrus cream (lemon, lime, orange or grapefruit)
Cooked frostings will include either Swiss, Italian, French and German buttercream. We also teach American cold-process frostings and cream cheese based frostings (plain or flavored).
Cookies
Take your cookie baking to the next level. Please select one of the following
lessons:
Butter Cookies: we bake 4 versions of this cookie and show you how to achieve eight different flavors and textures from just one recipe
Sugar Cookies: perfect for decorating as they do not spread during baking.
Chocolate Chip Cookies baked 4 ways: chewy, cakey, crunchy and crumbly. We use fine Belgian chocolate in these recipes for an added treat.
With all of our cookie lessons students take home a HUGE box of cookies to share .. or not!
Croissants
We will teach you to make a butter book and to laminate dough. You will make plain and chocolate croissants that are so buttery and delicious it will be worth all the effort. This class is 7 hours in length spread over 2 days (1.5 hours on day one and 5.5 hours on day two).
On day two there is a 3 hour window while the croissants are proofing to fit in another (3-hour) lesson of your choice, such as Cookies.
Pastry: Pies & Tarts
Learn to make a tender, flakey crust and delicious filling.
Choose your favorite pie or tart from one of the following lessons:
Cherry Pie with two fillings, almond cream and cherry-Kirsch with a Pâte à Foncer dough, topped with a rum streusel (this lesson is for adults only)
Lemon Meringue Pie made with a short crust called Pâte Sablée
Apple Pie with a tender sweet crust
Salted Caramel Chocolate Tarts
Gluten-free Baking
In our private and group baking lessons, we offer gluten-free, flourless (gluten-free), egg-free, and dairy-free options.
We offer the following gluten-free baking classes:
Pies and tarts
Cakes and cupcakes
Cookies
French Macarons
Breads and Bagels
Crepes
Eclairs and cream puffs
Note, the kitchen is not a gluten-free kitchen and may not be suitable for students with Celiac Disease.
Breads
We teach a wide variety of breads including French baguettes, artisanal breads, French fougasse, Italian focaccia (think deep-dish pizza style bread), challah (a braided egg bread) and sour dough (with yeast and without). We give students some sour dough starter to take home, which is over 100 years old! Students learn to work with starters and a variety of yeasts.
Bread lessons are 3 hours in length. Students may choose one type of bread from the following list. This bread will be paired with French Baguettes so that each student makes two types of bread.
- Sour Dough
- Artisanal
- Braided Asiago Cheese Bread
- French Fougasse
- Italian Focaccia (think deep-dish style pizza bread)
- or
- Challah (a sweet, braided egg bread), which may be paired with cinnamon rolls instead of French Baguettes.
Welcome to our kitchen.
Address
By appointment only
Teaching kitchen is located in Forest Hills
Nashville, TN 37215
Phone
615-948-7732