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Chef Zach discovered his passion for cooking in the kitchen with family growing up, which led him into the delicious field of the culinary arts. He is trained in classical French cooking with a knack for creating chocolate and pastry delicacies вЂ” he has even prepared a decadent chocolate dessert for former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. In addition, Chef Zach has had several recipes featured in cookbooks.

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Cooking Classes WITH Chef Zach THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

Dallas Cooking Class: Intro to Chocolate Mousse

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Online Cooking Classes WITH Chef Zach THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

Online Cooking Class: Black Forest Mini GГўteaux

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Black Forest Mini GГўteaux

$29/Person

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$29/Person

Join Chef Zach and master the secrets to making an authentic black forest cake. During this live and interactive virtual cooking class, Chef Zach will teach you each step to perfecting a classic black forest mini gГўteaux. Chef Zach will begin with a light chocolate black forest sponge cake for the base, covered...

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Classic French TigrГ©s Cake

$29/Person

Online Cooking Class

$29/Person

Learn how to make a traditional French dessert in this virtual class with Chef Zach. TigrГ©s are a popular style of French cakes known for their rich, moist texture and striped tiger print. In this interactive online baking class with Chef Zach, you will learn how to make authentic French tigrГ©s completely from...

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Seasonal Sponge Cake

$39/Person

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$39/Person

Prepare sweet treats inspired by the flavors and ingredients of each season with Chef Zach. Learn how to make a delicate and tender shortcake with winter citrus in this live interactive virtual cooking class with Chef Zach. YouвЂ™ll make everything from scratch: The sponge cake, the creamy Meyer lemon curd, and...

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Chocolate Ganache Workshop

$29/Person

Online Cooking Class

$29/Person

Chocolate lovers вЂ” rejoice as you master the art of homemade truffles! In this interactive online chocolate-making class, Chef Zach will teach you professional yet simple methods to preparing chocolate ganaches. Under his guidance, you'll heat, stir and cool this versatile baking ingredient to use in three...

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Gourmet Holiday Desserts

$39/Person

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$39/Person

Join Chef Zach and learn how to create two standout gourmet holiday desserts from scratch. In this interactive and live online cooking class with Chef Zach, you'll craft a gourmet homage to a famed Italian confection and a holiday wreath "sablГ©" cookie that will be a standout on your holiday dessert trays. First,...

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The Famous French Mi-Cuit

$29/Person

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$29/Person

Learn how to prepare one of classic French cuisine's most treasured confections: Mi-cuit au chocolat. The mi-cuit au chocolat is a legendary French dessert that's a far cry from the molten chocolate lava cakes found in American restaurants. It's chocolatey, indulgent and easy to recreate at home when you learn its...

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Chef Zach's Overall Rating

5.0 / 5

Based on 34 reviews

Reviews guests left for Chef Zach

Greg

05/28/23

We had a superb time at Zach's home making ganache and truffles. He had everything ready to go and was a wealth of knowledge. We highly recommend him.

05/28/23

Chi

11/21/22

Chef Zach was oustanding! He is very knowledgeable and we loved the way he conducted this workshop. He is well prepared, shared his expertise in a very friendly, non-intimidating way. He didn't just give us instructions to make it, he was considerate to also shared what could go wrong and how to recover when possible. Face it - professionals make it look easy until you have to do it on your own and nothing was what you remembered from class. Things which I thought would have been OK to substitute, so glad he went over how changing even the stirring tool could have ended in disaster. Appreciated chef Zach inviting us into his home which felt and look absolutely cozy yet elegant.

11/21/22

Gabrielle

06/19/22

Super informative !

06/19/22

Karen

10/25/20

Chef Zach was great. He was so nice and helpful, and we could tell that he is very knowledgeable and an excellent pastry chef. It would just be helpful for us beginners to be taken through the recipes a little more exactly step-by-step. All of his professional insight was very interesting and good to know, but it was hard to pay attention to all of that while trying to read through and follow the recipes. Thank you, Chef Zach!

10/25/20

Beth

10/18/20

Chef Zach was very patient and explained the process of making ganache in a way that was easily understood and helped with my success in following the recipe. He was also able to give me some guidance for using one of the recipes that I did not make correctly, allowing me to still use the ganache but in a different manner. I really enjoyed his class and would love to take another class in the future.

10/18/20

Collin

10/16/20

It was such an engaging and fun event. Thank you Chef Zach for sharing your knowledge with us and guiding us to successfully make ganache at home.

10/16/20

Barry

10/10/20

A really good, interactive session. The recipes beforehand and doing the prep in advance made a huge difference. Chef Zach dealt really with a (very) remote audience.

10/10/20

Mairi

09/20/20

We had such a great class! If you do it, be prepared, have the ingredients ready and impress yourself at how much you can create in a short time. Our chocolate choices didn't quite match the recipes. For one we needed extra cream to fix the ganache. For the caramel ganache, it turned out our chocolate was tasted too fruity. Next time I'd try the brand recommended by Chef Zach. Highly recommend this!

09/20/20

Cari

08/22/20

We had a lovely time. Our family scheduled a private class with Chef Zach to simply have some "social distance family time". What a great way to spend time together. Chef Zach was very relaxed and didn't rush us through the class. We really learned a lot about the industry, techniques, and ingredients. What a fun thing to do! Thanks Chef!!

08/22/20

Reviews Chef Zach received outside of Cozymeal

Cindy

11/13/19

I could never imagine a more perfect experience with my 8 year old niece who loves to bake!!! As a teacher myself I was INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED with ZachвЂ™s ability to teach, demonstrate and allow my niece to perform all the steps to make an absolutely fabulous Chocolate dessert!! I even learned A LOT of AH-HA baking tips !!! The entire experience was FANTASTIC!! Zach is a must for anyone seeing a personal DELICIOUS ENJOYABLE baking memory!!

11/13/19

Jennifer

11/13/19

We did a couples class and had such a great time. Zach is extremely knowledgable, well organized, and an amazing instructor. We did not have much baking experience so this was the perfect class for us. We learned useful techniques and facts about baking AND chocolate. We will definitely do another class in the future!!

11/13/19

Andrew

11/13/19

Zach's class was awesome! I surprised my wife with an anniversary chocolate couples class and I'm glad I chose him. He made us feel comfortable throughout the entire process. Very informative and happy to answer the questions we had and the entire process was just the right amount of time. Oh, and the dessert was absolutely amazing!

11/13/19

Chef Zach

Cooking Classes WITH Chef Zach THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

Intro to Chocolate Mousse

Traditional French Desserts

All About Chocolate Ganache

Online Cooking Classes WITH Chef Zach THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

Black Forest Mini GГўteaux

Classic French TigrГ©s Cake

Seasonal Sponge Cake

Chocolate Ganache Workshop

Gourmet Holiday Desserts

The Famous French Mi-Cuit