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Ultimate Cookie Party
Baking Class for Ages 7-11 br/> Saturday, December 12th | 12:00-2:00pm

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Calling all young bakers! Join Chef Liz from The Cheesecakery for a fun-filled cookie platter workshop. Kids will mix and roll dough, choose from creative cookie styles like stained glass, hidden surprise, mix-ins, thumbprints, and iced cut-outs. Then they will decorate their collection of masterpieces and arrange on a festive take-home platter. Kids will love the variety of choices they have to flex their creativity!

Parents can drop off the kids and shop nearby while the baking magic happens! Kids will work in groups of 3. This class usually sells out quickly, reserve your spot now!

What you’ll take home:
  • A festive platter full of a variety of cookies.
  • Recipes and instructions.

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Creaming Cookie Dough Method
  • Getting Creative with Cookies
  • Icing Techniques

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 7-11
  • Great for Beginner to advanced cooks

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

*menus subject to change depending on product availability

Instructor: Liz Field 

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Ultimate Cookie Party
Baking Class for Ages 10-14 br/> Saturday, December 12th | 9:00-11:00am

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Calling all young bakers! Join Chef Liz from The Cheesecakery for a fun-filled cookie platter workshop. Kids will mix and roll dough, choose from creative cookie styles like stained glass, hidden surprise, mix-ins, thumbprints, and iced cut-outs. Then they will decorate their collection of masterpieces and arrange on a festive take-home platter. Kids will love the variety of choices they have to flex their creativity!

Parents can drop off the kids and shop nearby while the baking magic happens! Kids will work in groups of 3. This class usually sells out quickly, reserve your spot now!

What you’ll take home:
  • A festive platter full of a variety of cookies.
  • Recipes and instructions.

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Creaming Cookie Dough Method
  • Getting Creative with Cookies
  • Icing Techniques

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 10-14
  • Great for Beginner to advanced cooks

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

*menus subject to change depending on product availability

Instructor: Liz Field 

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Cookie Decorating Workshop: Holiday Sweaters
Decorating Class for Ages 16+
Monday, December 7th | 6:00-8:00pm

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Festive Holiday Sweaters with Sarah from The Sugared Pig

Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with cookies, icing, and lots of holiday cheer! In this hands-on decorating workshop, Sarah from The Sugared Pig will show you how to create a collection of adorable holiday sweater cookies that are almost too cute to eat.

Learn professional royal icing techniques as you pipe, flood, layer, and embellish pre-baked cookies with snowy patterns, festive colors, whimsical details, and even a few “ugly sweater” inspired designs. No baking experience necessary. Just bring your creativity and holiday spirit!

Perfect for beginners and experienced decorators alike, this class is a fun way to get into the holiday mood while creating beautiful cookies to share, gift, or proudly display at your next seasonal gathering.

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Creating smooth royal icing outlines and clean borders
  • Flooding cookies for a polished, professional finish
  • Layering icing colors and designs for dimension
  • Piping decorative details, patterns, and textures
  • Working with icing consistency for different decorating techniques
  • Creating sweater-inspired designs, including classic winter knits and festive holiday motifs
  • Adding finishing touches such as borders, cuffs, collars, and decorative accents

What You’ll Take Home:

  • A box of beautiful and delicious sugar cookies
  • Recipes and new skills

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • We’ll make the cookies – you decorate!
  • Great for beginner to advanced decorators

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes. Many classes have vegetarian options upon request, please contact our office.**

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Instructor: Sarah Epure 

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Pumpkin Pie Workshop – Make & Take
Baking Class for Ages 9-14 w/Adult
Tuesday, November 24th | 6:00-8:00pm

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Ages 9-14 with One Adult

Get ready for Thanksgiving by learning how to make a classic pumpkin pie from scratch with Chef Pax! In this hands-on class, students and their accompanying adult will explore the differences between mealy, short, and flaky pie doughs and discover why each is used in baking.

Participants will create a classic flaky, buttery pie crust, prepare a traditional pumpkin pie filling, and make decorative elements for their pie. The unbaked pie shell, decorations, and filling will go home with you to assemble and bake in time for your Thanksgiving celebration.

Disposable pie pans will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring a pie pan from home if they prefer. Recipes, baking instructions, and helpful tips will also be sent home so you can recreate this holiday favorite with confidence.

Class Includes:

  • Introduction to mealy, short, and flaky pie doughs
  • Hands-on preparation of a flaky, buttery pie crust
  • Classic pumpkin pie filling
  • Creative pie crust decorations
  • Disposable pie pan
  • Take-home recipes and baking instructions

A perfect class for young bakers and their favorite kitchen helper to learn new skills and create a delicious Thanksgiving tradition together!

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 9-14 w/adult.
  • Great for beginner bakers

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Chef Pax Robinson-Zetzer

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Yeast Dinner Rolls from Scratch
Cooking Class for Ages 16+
Monday, November 23rd | 6:00-8:00pm

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Join Chef Alex for a class all about delicious yeast rolls – that classic dinner-table favorite during the holiday! Focus on working with pre-fermented dough to learn different shaping techniques, proofing, and baking. Then turn around and learn the secrets to making the dough – a batch you’ll take home to make even more rolls for your dinner table!

Class is for ages 16+

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Working with Yeast Dough
  • Dough Make-Up, Proofing, Baking
  • Shaping Dough
  • Professional Baking Standards

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • Great for Beginner-Advanced Cooks
  • Prepare 12 baked rolls and take home another dozen to bake later

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Alex Noel 

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Pie-Inspired Bakery-Style Cookies for Fall
Cooking Class for Ages 16+
Thursday, November 12th | 6:00-8:00pm

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Elevate your cookie game and turn the classic flavors of Thanksgiving pies into irresistible, seasonal cookies in this hands-on baking class for adults. In this class with Chef Lilly, you will explore two showstopping recipes: Crunchy Toffee-Apple Pie Cookies are layered with warm spices, tender fresh apples, and crunchy, buttery toffee. Giant, chewy, Maple-Brown Butter-Pumpkin Cookies are packed with nutty browned butter, pumpkin, real maple, and cozy fall spices.
These are sure to be added to your standard cookie repertoire for years to come! Along the way, you’ll pick up helpful tips for creating rich fall flavors and bakery-style cookies. You’ll leave with a delicious box of goodies ready for fall gatherings and cozy winter moments.

Menu:

  • Toffee-Apple Pie Cookies
  • Maple-Brown Butter-Pumpkin Cookies

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • How to safely brown butter for baking recipes (and why browned butter is sooo good)
  • Incorporating fresh & canned fruit into cookies
  • Measuring tips & techniques

What you’ll take home:

  • One dozen Toffee-Apple Pie Cookies
  • 1/2 dozen Giant Maple-Brown Butter-Pumpkin Cookies
  • Recipes and instructions

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • Great for beginner to advanced cooks
  • Students work in pairs – Sign up with friends!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Lilly Burdsall

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Homemade Fudge
Ages 9-14 w/Adult
Tuesday, December 15, 2026 | 6:00-8:00pm

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Celebrate the season with a sweet, hands-on candy-making class led by Chef Annie.

You’ll make Classic Chocolate Fudge, your choice of Vanilla OR Peanut Butter Fudge, and the regional classic confection, Opera Cream Candies. This class is perfect for adults who want to build candy-making confidence, enjoy a nostalgic treat, and leave with an assortment of handmade sweets to share—or keep for themselves. You’ll learn the techniques behind old-fashioned fudge and creamy confections, from proper cooking temperatures to achieving that smooth, rich texture every fudge lover craves. Students work in pairs, perfect to sign up with a friend!

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Making Fudge from Scratch
  • Marshmallow Fondant (Opera Creams)
  • Coating Candy in Chocolate
  • Kitchen safety

What you’ll take home:

  • Batches of delicious homemade fudge and Opera Creams candies – perfect for sharing or gifting!
  • Recipes and instructions

More about this class:

  • Class is for kids ages 9-14 with one adult partner.
  • Great for beginner cooks!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

Instructor: Annie Brown 

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Fudge and Opera Creams From Scratch
Class for Ages 16+
Thursday, November 19th, 2026| 6:00-8:00pm

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Celebrate the season with a sweet, hands-on candy-making class led by Chef Annie.

You’ll make Classic Chocolate Fudge, your choice of Vanilla OR Peanut Butter Fudge, and the regional classic confection, Opera Cream Candies. This class is perfect for adults who want to build candy-making confidence, enjoy a nostalgic treat, and leave with an assortment of handmade sweets to share—or keep for themselves. You’ll learn the techniques behind old-fashioned fudge and creamy confections, from proper cooking temperatures to achieving that smooth, rich texture every fudge lover craves. Students work in pairs, perfect to sign up with a friend!

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Making Fudge from Scratch
  • Marshmallow Fondant (Opera Creams)
  • Coating Candy in Chocolate
  • Kitchen safety

What you’ll take home:

  • Batches of delicious homemade fudge and Opera Creams candies
  • Recipes and instructions

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16 and up.
  • Great for beginner and intermediate cooks!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

Instructor: Annie Brown 

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Food Science Candy Lab for Kids
Candy Science for ages 7-12 w/Adult
Monday, November 30th | 5:30-7:30pm

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Get ready for sweet science! In this hands‑on kids’ class, young chefs will dive into the magical world of edible experiments. They’ll learn how to make edible glass, mix up glow‑in‑the‑dark gelatin, and create stretchy, giggly edible slime—all while exploring the science behind each treat. Fun, messy, and totally delicious, this class turns curiosity into candy. Perfect for budding scientists, creative thinkers, and kids who love to play with their food!

What you’ll learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Candy Science
  • Fun with food!

What you’ll take home:

  • Lots of fun candy treats of your own creation!
  • Recipes and instructions for making more at home!

More about this class:

  • Class is for kids ages 7-12 accompanied by an adult. Each adult may only have one child with them.
  • Great for beginner cooks

 

Instructor: Annie Brown

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Baking with Black Cocoa: Holiday Treats
Ages 9-14 w/Adult
Saturday, December 5th | 11:00am-1:30pm

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Chef Lilly is back with more ultra-chocolatey sweets just in time for the holidays! Kids and their adult will make Black Cocoa Brownies with Powdered Sugar “Snow,” Chocolate M&M Cookies, and Holiday Ornament Oreo Truffles in this fun, hands-on baking class for ages 9-14 with an adult. A chocolate adventure awaits! Dive into the magical world of black cocoa—the secret ingredient that makes some of your favorite cookies extra dark and extra delicious (think “Oreos”).

Menu:

  • Black Cocoa Brownies with Powdered Sugar “Snowflakes”
  • Chocolate M&M Cookies
  • Holiday Ornament Oreo Truffles

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Baking Skills
  • Easy Truffles
  • Decorating with Chocolate

What you’ll take home:

  • Cookies, Brownies, and Truffles!
  • Recipes and instructions

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 9-14 accompanied by an adult – each adult can only have one child with them.
  • Great for beginner to advanced bakers
  • Sign up with friends!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Lilly Burdsall 

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