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Viennoiserie Baking Class

Learn how to bake fantastic French treats from scratch at this all-day workshop.

The Artisan Bakery School

5.0 (2)

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7 hours

1 to 4

£110 - £225 (£110 per 14-18 year old, £225 per )

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What you'll do

If you've ever wanted to serve hot, homemade croissants for breakfast or make your own luscious brioche, why not come and learn to bake delectable, hand-made pastries at this viennoiserie class in Sparkwell?

Viennoiserie, which means things from Vienna, is the type of baking actually first made famous by the French. In this all-day workshop, you'll learn about the two forms of viennoiserie, laminated dough and unlaminated dough, which use yeast to create their amazing lightness.

Your teacher will help you create examples of both types, crafting laminated dough concocted with layers of yeast and butter to make delicious croissants and whipping up brioches using unlaminated dough enriched with butter and eggs to melt in the mouth!

With the combination of small group sizes and one-to-one support from your expert tutor, this class will help you master the baking basics in a spacious and welcoming environment.

Whether you're looking to impress someone special with your pain au chocolat or create savoury pastries for your next party, the adaptations of these two kinds of dough are almost endless. Sweet or savoury, they are luxury items that are appreciated all the more when hand-made!

After this class, you will be able to:

Make two kinds of laminated dough, one plain and one sweet.
Create a selection of pastries including croissants, pain au chocolat, frangipane butterflies and apricot Danish.
Make your own creme patissiere.
Mix, mould and bake your own individual or tear and share brioche.

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Knowledge required

Have done some previous baking or at least happy in the kitchen.

What you'll get

Course notes.
Lunch and refreshments.
Your beautifully gift-boxed pastries to take home.

Suitable for

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 14 years old).

An adult must accompany any attending kids, and must pay for a separate ticket.

This would also be a nice gift for her, gift for mum, anniversary gift or birthday gift.

Location

Old Home Cottage, Sparkwell, Devon, PL7 5DQ

Your teacher

The Artisan Bakery School

5.0 (2)

In 2008, bakers Dragan and Penny were among the pioneers in teaching microbakery business courses and among the first to sell real bread in Oxford. Now based in Devon, UK, their mission is to teach people how to bake real bread, pastries and pizza. Sourdough, heritage and gluten-free breads are their specialities.

Dragan's fascination with breadmaking was born of necessity in the mid seventies, when he first arrived in the UK. The bread in England then was, and still largely is, fast to produce and chemically induced. Coming from a macho culture, barely able to fry an egg, he was forced to learn how to bake a decent loaf, just to survive. Dragan's greatest pleasure is when people come to them saying that they can finally eat bread again because properly fermented dough is easy to digest.

Penny was fortunate enough to have a mother and two grandmothers who were all great cooks, and happy to have their kids in the kitchen. The teaching came almost by osmosis. Penny’s lifelong passion for creating good food made it natural for her to bake bread, but it wasn’t until she met Dragan that she really developed those skills.

“We can only change the way people bake and think about bread one person at a time. But if we do it often enough, for long enough, we will contribute to positive change. That’s our reason for being."

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