Our Price $495.00
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Our Pastry & Baking Basics classes offer a hands-on instruction in the basics of baking and pastry. Students will learn the skills and basic principles of baking, weights and measurements, equipment use, baking terminology and ingredient meaning. We will create and cover such topics as pie making, breads, pastries and doughs.

WEEK ONE Introduction to basic bake shop principles and mixing metholds, sanitation, measuring, equipment, cookie making.

WEEK TWO Pies: Making dough, 2-crust pies, lattice pies, custard or meringue pies.

WEEK THREE Quick breads, different mixing methods, biscuits, scones, banana bread & muffins.

WEEK FOUR Bread Production; 12-steps. Foccacia, cinnamon bread, multi-grain breads.

WEEK FIVE Yeast laminated doughs including croissants, Danish & puff pastry.

WEEK SIX Pate a choux, tarts, swan cream puffs & fresh fruit tarts.

Program Cost: $495.00- includes Wayne Gisslen's Professional Baking cookbook
50% deposit with registration, balance at first class

Please add $5.00 p/p, p/wk gratuity for chef's assistant

Next Class Available:

NEW DATE: September 17, 2008 (Wednesday evenings, once a week)
Class Times: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm