Couples: The Bourbon Steakhouse

Join an ICE Pastry Chef to learn the secrets behind perfect pâte à choux-based desserts. This versatile dough can take all sorts of shapes and sizes, for end-results that look complicated and impressive but are in reality easy to make. Your recipe list includes eclairs with chocolate glaze and chocolate pastry cream and cream puffs with vanilla pastry cream.

Mother Sauces and Their Derivatives is a three-day, hands-on course dedicated to mastering the foundational sauces of French cuisine. Through instruction and kitchen practice, you’ll explore the techniques, applications, and variations of the five mother sauces. You’ll begin with tomato sauce and béchamel, preparing classic variations such as shakshouka, sauce Portugaise served with grilled pork chop, croque monsieur or madame, and mac and cheese finished with Mornay. The course continues with velouté and espagnole through dishes like cream of mushroom soup, blanquette de veau, and duck with bordelaise sauce. You’ll finish with emulsified sauces, focusing on hollandaise and its derivatives through eggs Benedict, poached salmon with béarnaise, and vegetables and potatoes finished with sauce Maltaise.

A tender, flaky and light crust is what often separates a good pie from a great one. In this class, experienced ICE pastry chefs teach you how to make that elusive perfect pie crust --- great for sweet or savory pies. Under their expert instruction, you’ll learn the same techniques and tips used by ICE career pastry grads at New York's top restaurants. You'll make and work with pâte brisée --- which you'll then use to make your very own double crust apple pie from scratch.

In this new cinnamon rolls and hot cross buns class, you’ll bake two treats guaranteed to wow your brunch guests (and guaranteed to solidify your position in the friend group as “host with the most”). Aromatic and comforting, cinnamon rolls and hot cross buns are joy-filled food hugs. Sign up to bake them today!