Cooking Class: Delightful French Pastries
Thu, Feb 13th at 6:00PM
Thu, Feb 13th at 6:00PM
Thu, Feb 13th at 6:30PM
Fri, Feb 14th at 1:00PM
In this hands-on cooking class, Chef Eric will teach you how to make buttery, flaky pastry dough that will elevate your pies, tarts and galettes. You’ll first use fresh, seasonal ingredients to create fruit filling for a unique fruit tartlet. Next, you’ll utilize traditional French techniques to craft pâte à choux (delicate pastry dough), which serves as the base for savory gougères, a cheese pastry with Gruyère and bright herbs. And let’s not forget the profiteroles: cream puffs filled with ice cream. To drizzle on top of your creations, you’ll handcraft a luscious chocolate sauce from scratch.
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Seasonal Fruit Galette
With butter, flour and sugar
Gougères
With butter, flour, eggs and cheese
Profiteroles
With butter, flour and eggs
Chocolate Sauce
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.
- Minimum Guests 2
- Maximum Guests 4
- Event Duration 2.5 hours
- Activity Level
Activity Level
- LabelsGourmet, Fun, French, Baking, Pastry
Reviews Guests Left For Other Experiences
Jenna
26 Jun 2022
What an absolutely wonderful, multi-sensory experience we had with Chef Eric! It was fun, lighthearted, and so educational. Not only did we learn how to make fresh pasta (an easy but time-intensive labor of love, but totally worth it -- tastes so much better than dried/boxed pasta), but also how to properly hold a knife, chop onions, keep herbs fresh, and prepare sauces and cooked noodles properly. Chef Eric was warm and engaging and made us feel so welcome in his beautiful and organized home kitchen. We are grateful to have learned his craft and techniques, and actually just made more homemade pasta today, as well as his perfect pesto sauce (mmmm), AND we even resuscitated some wilted basil with his greenhouse hack. Thank you Chef Eric, you are truly a gem!
Outside Reviews for Chef Eric
Greg
03 Jan 2022
This guy is incredible! He is pleasant to talk with and get ideas about food. Most importantly, he produced the best tasting food you can imagine. I highly recommend Chef Eric!!!
Throughout Chef Eric’s more than 20-years-long culinary career, he’s held key positions in award-winning restaurants, catering and event firms, and gourmet retail spaces in Detroit, New York, and San Francisco. Most recently, he’s worked as a private chef, as well as a recipe developer and food stylist for several cookbooks. Chef Eric has also applied his talents as a culinary instructor, and he loves providing his students with those special “a-ha!” moments.
