Cooking Class - Italian Desserts

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What You’ll Do

Get ready for a taste of la dolce vita in this Italian dessert-making class!

In this hands-on class with Chef Nonna, you'll learn how to create three authentic Italian desserts from scratch.

Chef Nonna will begin by sharing the secrets to a luxuriously creamy rice pudding redolent of vanilla and soul-warming spices. Then, you'll make the famous dessert of Capri: a flourless chocolate and almond cake boasting the simplicity of Italian country cakes, but a unique elegance and decadency. Lastly, you'll bake a batch of pignoli cookies with a crispy exterior, chewy interior, and a full-bodied nutty flavor that lingers pleasantly on your palate.

Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.

Your Menu

Budino di Riso

Rice pudding with cream, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg

Torta Caprese

With chocolate, eggs, almonds, sugar and powdered sugar

Pignoli Cookies

With almonds, pine nuts, sugar and egg whites

Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Details

Minimum Guests 2
Maximum Guests 4
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Baking, Couples, Fun, Italian, Vegetarian

Meet your chef

Chef Nonna

8 reviews

Chef Nonna has acquired over 15 years of professional culinary experience after completing both the Certified Culinary Arts Program and Certified Pastry Chef Program at the Apicius International School of Hospitality in Florence, Italy. After returning to the U.S., Chef Nonna worked as an acclaimed pastry chef in many capacities, including as a chef instructor at a leading institute for plant-based culinary arts.

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What You’ll Do

Get ready for a taste of la dolce vita in this Italian dessert-making class!

Your Menu

Budino di Riso

Rice pudding with cream, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg

Torta Caprese

With chocolate, eggs, almonds, sugar and powdered sugar

Pignoli Cookies

With almonds, pine nuts, sugar and egg whites

Details

Minimum Guests 2
Maximum Guests 4
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Baking, Couples, Fun, Italian, Vegetarian

Reviews

Reviews guests left for this experience

Kenn

28 Jan 2019

Spending time with Chef Donna is like cooking with a relative, in the best possible way. She's kind, cheerful, sweet and has a life-time of experience cooking! From teaching classes, to working in restaurants to living in Italy-- "Nonna Donna" has a wealth of knowledge under her chef's belt. Especially when it comes to pasta! I was amazed at how she showed me how to transform flour, eggs and a little olive oil into delicious Fettuccine with Alfredo Sauce and rolled out Raviolis stuffed with Butternut Squash and Brown Sage Butter. AMAZING! The pasta itself was so good, it almost doesn't need any sauce! Don't miss some of her desserts too! Torta Caprese or Apple Crostata-- both of these sweet delights are spectacular! If you've always wanted to learn Italian cooking from a "nonna," look no further than Chef Donna!

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Brianna

08 Jul 2019

Me and my girlfriend showed up to Chef Noona home on July 6th at noon. She greeted us with the biggest smile, it was very welcoming. The menu was fettuccine Pasta with Alfredo sauce and a mixed green salad with vinaigrette. The dessert was a Apple Crostata Once in the home we were provided a recipe list of what we were going to cook. Chef Noona sat us down and carefully went over the whole recipe sheet detailing the reasons and science of the ingredients. This made me feel very comfortable and helped me understand more about certain ingredients. The hardest part about the meal to us was creating the dough, but Chef Noona helped us tremendously and showed genuine patience. I really enjoyed the experience and will recommend her to anyone! Thanks again Chef Noona, we will be back.

Heather

25 Feb 2019

Great experience. Chef Gonna knows her pasta and shares wonderful techniques adaptable to cooks at different levels. We thoroughly enjoyed our leftovers!

Yvonne

17 Feb 2019

Chef nonna was fantastic. We started with making the dough for the apple galette. She asked if we wanted to either use a manual pastry blender or food processor to mix the dough. After mixing the dough and assembling the apples we baked the galette. Next on the menu was making the pasta, she had us divide the ingredients so that we each would make our own dough. With just flour an egg and some water, we kneed our own personal ball of dough before using the pasta machine to roll out our dough to fettuccine. We asked for a lactose free alfredo sauce, she taught us a recipe using two types of nuts, soy milk and nutritional yeast. After assembling the salad, cooking the pasta and adding the вЂlactose freeвЂ™ alfredo sauce we ate our yummy meal and finished with the apple galette. The pasta and galette took much longer then Chef Nonna anticipated, we never felt rushed and she still allowed time for us to enjoy our meal.

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Leah Y

07 Feb 2019

Every dessert I've tasted from Chef Donna's hands was absolutely perfect. She pays close attention to presentation and flavors, textures and all around goodness. Yum. My personal favorite so far is the chocolate almond tart.

Steve

03 Feb 2019

Having experienced the wide ranging pallet of Chef Donna's creations over many years, I can attest to the the determined and thoughtful research that culminates in the most delightful pastries, cakes, chocolates. Her many sugar free and gluten free epicurean creations are the epitome of naturally delicious, health centric foods. Chef Donna studied in Florence for 5 years at several prestigious culinary arts academies and has prepared exclusive menu items for well known restaurants in northern California.

Mary

03 Feb 2019

I have known Chef Donna for many years. SheвЂ™s a fantastic cook, with a vast knowledge base. She has a relaxed style combined with precision, and is a kind and patient teacher. Do a Cozymeal with her, and you wonвЂ™t regret it! ItвЂ™ll be fun, and food will be delicious!

Ishka C.

03 Feb 2019

Chef Donna is amazing! She is obsessed with the art of cooking and IвЂ™m quite amazed at how much energy she has in the kitchen. It just goes to show that when you love what you do for work, life is vibrant. The culinary delights that Chef Donna creates are stunning, not just in flavor, but in the way it all looks! I just want to take pictures of all of it!! Every time IвЂ™ve had the chance to cook with her (which IвЂ™ve had the opportunity to do for many years), IвЂ™ve most enjoyed how at ease I feel in the kitchen with her at the helm. Her mastery of her craft and playfulness in the kitchen leaves me feeling relaxed and comfortable to explore the culinary world. I highly recommend Chef Donna for all things yummy! ??