Cake decorating is labor-intensive, as any professional cake designer can tell you. But in just a few hours, you can learn tricks that will allow you to create simple decorations for your homemade cakes. Experienced pastry chef Faith Drobbin will teach you a wide range of foundational techniques you can immediately use on your next decorated cake. With cupcakes, you'll learn and then practice: making and coloring white modeling chocolate; making and coloring Swiss meringue buttercream; piping basic borders with a shell tip; using and coloring rolled fondant icing; parchment cornets; piping chocolate with cornets; and utilizing chocolate transfer sheets.
One 4 Hour Lesson
Level 1
$125
You will work in teams to execute the class menu. At the end of class, participants gather to enjoy the food they have prepared. Wine is served with meals in most classes. All class menus are subject to change. While a snack platter is offered in both morning and evening classes, you may want to consider a light snack before joining us for class. Students are encouraged to bring a light lunch or dinner to all pastry classes.
You will work in teams to execute the class menu. At the end of class, participants gather to enjoy the food they have prepared. Wine is served with meals in most classes. All class menus are subject to change. While a snack platter is offered in both morning and evening classes, you may want to consider a light snack before joining us for class. Students are encouraged to bring a light lunch or dinner to all pastry classes.
If you're ready to take a deep dive into the world of fish butchery, this class is for you. Join us to learn the art of breaking down both round and flat fish with skill and finesse. From perfecting filleting technique to deskinning and deboning, you'll leave with the confidence to handle a variety of fish preparations in your own kitchen. This class will provide a foundation for you to feel confident tackling fish butchery. While not a requirement, it helps to have practiced the skills of Knife Skills 1 before taking this class.
This intensive three-day workshop is designed for serious cake decorators who want to expand their gum-paste floral repertoires. You will create a wide range of decorative flowers, including hibiscus, tiger lilies, arum lilies, anthuriums, African violets, and cherry blossoms; you’ll also create gum-paste foliage. All flowers will be dusted and painted to perfection, as well as wired and arranged into breathtaking sprays. Prerequisite: Techniques of Cake Decorating 2.
Learn to prepare mouthwatering versions of fresh seafood dishes, along with a range of universally useful cooking techniques. From grilling to frying to stewing, you can't go wrong with these dishes (including sides) that you might otherwise only find in restaurants. We'll even make cioppino, the mouthwatering Italian-American seafood stew that originated in San Francisco in the 1800s. Your seafaring menu includes: fried calamari with a spicy avocado dipping sauce; grilled salmon with tapenade and smashed potatoes; and cioppino (seafood stew of clams, shrimp, scallops, mussels, fish and tomatoes).
Ranked as America’s Best Culinary School (USAToday 2019), our roster of Chef-Instructors have run top kitchens around the globe.
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