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Pastry Mini-Series
New Series Begins June 2008!
This series will teach you the basics of pastry items, including simple and complext pies, tarts, cakes, tortes, cookies, and other pastry items. You'll learn the chemical processes going on within cake batter and cookie dough, and the whys of how these recipes work. We'll also do a lot of practicing with different types of pie crust and similar pastry, learning new techniques for rolling and shaping, allowing you to become familiar and comfortable with the methods. This is an excellent series for either the accomplished or the aspiring home baker, offering a lot of new material and good practice under the experienced eye of a chef. You'll often take baked goods home with you.

Every class ends in a full meal plus a hearty dessert! The three classes are:

1. Cakes and Tortes: We will learn the ratios necessary to make a cake without a mix and what's going on chemically and physically inside the cake with all those eggs and leavening agents. We'll discuss tortes and the difference between those and cakes, and also learn about frostings, meringues, and buttercreams. We'll make several different styles of cakes and tortes (we do take requests) including pound cake, flourless cake, dacquoise, and even cheesecake.

2. Pies & Tarts: Our primary focus here is on crust: We will learn basic pie crust, pate sucrée and pate brisée, working on perfect texture and rolling technique. We'll also work on a variety of pie and tart fillings—we'll make Blackberry Pie with Lattice Crust, Dutch Apple Pie with streusel topping, and Lemon Curd Tart, among others.

3. Pastry: Learn to make your own puff pastry, croissants, and pâté de choix. We will use the puff pastry to make Napoleons and palmiers. We will also make pastry cream.

Registration Information:
Where: CC House at Beacon Hill.
Who: Taught by Chef Zach Millican.
When: Three consecutive Saturday mornings, 10am-1pm: May 17, 24, and 31. If you need to miss a class, you can make it up when this series or our Saturday Baking Series is next offered.
How Much: $225 for three classes. Each class includes a full meal. Registration is limited to 12 students.
How: Call us at 206.284.8687 or click here to register online. Check out "The Fine Print" for registration details including information about our very flexible makeup policy in case you need to miss a class.

Back to Series Page or click here to read about our Advanced Baking series.