Cooking Class - Festive Pastry Gnomes вЂ“ Family Fun

With Chef Michael or Resident Chef

4.7 (32 Reviews)

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Chef Michael is a classically trained chef with over 25 years of diverse culinary experience, including formal training at a Le Cordon Bleu affiliate in Chicago. His impressive career spans work in restaurants, private chef roles for athletes and celebrities and extensive time cooking across North America on yachts and sport fishing vessels. Outside the kitchen, Chef Michael enjoys family time and road trips through Baja California, bringing a rich background and vibrant personality to each cooking class he teaches.

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Every skill and interest level welcome.

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WHAT YOU’LL DO

Transform French pastry into colorful wintry characters.

In this seasonal cooking class designed for all ages, youвЂ™ll practice fundamental pastry skills while getting creative in the kitchen. Your chef instructor will teach you to prepare choux pastry to make classic cream puffs, along with a textured craquelin topping, to form the base of your holiday gnomes. Sip classic hot cocoa while you decorate.

Tea, coffee and water will be provided. Guests are welcome to bring non-alcoholic beverages.

This class is suitable for ages 7+ with an adult present. Children under 17 must be accompanied by a paying adult. Class price is per person.

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CLASS SIZE

1 (min) to 16 (max) people.

Meal Courses

3 courses

EVENT DURATION

2-2.5 hours

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Chef Michael or Resident Chef's Overall Rating

4.7 / 5

Based on 32 reviews

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SARAH

08/04/2024

It was so great!! The chef was so kind and professional.

Linda

07/10/2024

It was very great, but sometimes he ran thru the instructions too fast to comprehend.

Roberto

07/09/2024

The Pie baking experience didnвЂ™t really live up to my, very beginner, pie making expectations. Chef Mike was a nice guy but he was very open about the fact that he was a savory chef not a pastry chef. He didnвЂ™t have much to add to the process of baking other than to say he wasnвЂ™t into measuring very much. This was evident in the prep for the class. We made one full size pie of peaches and blueberries. After getting things mixed, we pored the filling into the crust and it was about 1/3 the amount it should have been. Not a huge deal but it doesnвЂ™t show any attention to basic prep. When doing the lattice on the pie the sous chef (who claimed to be a pastry chef) didnвЂ™t know the process for weaving the lattice. She instructed us one way and was corrected by, IвЂ™m guessing, the manager of (the store where the class held. The kicker was that the ovens apparently werenвЂ™t baking our pies as fast as they should have been. So, our pie came out almost baked by the end of the class. The chef instructed the sous chef to take it out of the pie tin and put it in a cake box, for us to take home and finish baking. Well this assumes we have a pie tin at home and also assumes that weвЂ™ll be able to get a fully loaded pie, sitting in just the crust, off of a cardboard box and into a pie tin. Not easy for an experienced chef IвЂ™m sure, let alone a couple of novices. I would have guessed working ovens or better prep with timing would be a basic feature of a class like this. There was so much down time waiting for the pie to slowly bake that the chef started teaching us how to cut onions and mince garlic. Nothing wrong with that, just a lot of standing and waiting that seemingly shouldnвЂ™t have happened. The one thing everyone on staff seemed prepared to do was push sign-ups for their other classes and products in the store (for which we were given a 10% off coupon). All in all, I was disappointed. This was supposed to be a nice gift for my wifeвЂ™s birthday but it turned out to be a big let down. I would not recommend the Cozy Meal classes.