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Cheesecake Creations with The Cheesecakery
Ages 10-14 w/Adult
Saturday, October 10th | 10:00am-12:00pm

Join local pastry chef and owner of The Cheesecakery Liz Field for a fun, hands-on baking experience! Learn how to create stunning gourmet cheesecake cupcakes from scratch as Liz guides you through making a rich, versatile cheesecake filling and layering it with delicious flavors and textures. You’ll craft your own crusts, fruit sauces, and creative toppings to personalize each sweet treat. Perfect for young bakers, this class offers the chance to develop new kitchen skills while creating desserts that look as amazing as they taste. Each kid/adult pair takes home a dozen cheesecake-cupcakes.

Menu:

  • Scratch Cheesecake Filling
  • Fruit Sauce
  • Graham Cracker and Cookie Crusts, and more!

What You’ll Learn:

  • Cheesecake tips and tricks
  • Kitchen safety and sanitation
  • Baking Skills like measuring

What You’ll Take Home:

  • A dozen cheesecake-cupcakes of your own creation!
  • Recipes, tips and tricks for more baking fun at home!

More About This Class:

  • Class is for kids ages 10-14 accompanied by an adult
  • Great for beginner to intermediate youth bakers

Instructor: Liz Field

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Pinwheels
Baking Class for Ages 16+
Saturday, November 7th | 10:30am -1:00pm

Raise the bar on the classic pumpkin roll with delicious Pumpkin Cheesecake Pinwheels! Join Liz Field from The Cheesecakery as she shows you how to create a tender pumpkin sponge cake filled with rich, creamy cheesecake filling and rolled into a beautiful and elegant take on this favorite fall dessert.
While your cake bakes, you’ll craft your own Pumpkin Spice Syrup and use it to craft a cozy hot coffee drink or a refreshing iced coffee, finished with whipped cream. Enjoy your beverage as you make a decadent filling and finish the mini rolls. You’ll also take home your homemade syrup to enjoy in coffee drinks, desserts, and other seasonal treats.
This hands-on class is the perfect way to celebrate fall flavors while learning new baking and beverage-making skills. Students work in pairs, so bring a friend!

What you’ll take home:

  • A batch of pumpkin-cheesecake pinwheel rolls
  • Hand crafted pumpkin spice syrup
  • Recipes and instructions

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Sponge cake and jelly roll methods
  • Creating cheesecake filling
  • Hand crafting drink and dessert syrups

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • 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.

Instructor: Liz Field 

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Homemade “Pop Tarts”
Baking Class for Ages 7-12 w/Adult
Saturday, September 5th | 10:00am-12:00pm

Join Chef Jeri for a fun morning making homemade pop-tarts! You’ll team up and make the crust from scratch, then make your own filling choices and assemble the poptarts, bake ’em, then frost and eat them! This class is for ages 7-12 with an adult.

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Pastry Dough Basics
  • Measuring

What you’ll take home:

  • Pop tarts of your own creation to share (or keep for yourself!)
  • Recipes and skills to make more at home!

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 7-12 with an adult!
  • 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.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Jeri Kubicki 

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Fun with Puff Pastry!
Cooking Class for Ages 7-12 w/Adult
Monday, September 14th | 6:008:00pm

Join Chef Lilly for a class all about the magic of puff pastry! Hundreds of layers of butter and flaky pastry make this special dough “rise” to the occasion, and provides a fun format for all types of imaginative shapes, flavors, and textures! Together, you’ll learn how to cut different Danish shapes and use different fillings, make “snails”, and even apple-rose-roll-ups! Join us for this exciting adventure all about puff pastry!

What you’ll Learn:

  • How to work with puff pastry dough
  • Creating unique shapes, and some classics, too
  • how to balance filling with dough to get the perfect ratio
  • The science behind the puff!

Other Info:

  • Class is for ages 7-12 with an adult working together
  • Great for beginner to intermediate cooks
  • Eat what you’d like in class, and take the rest home to share!

 

Instructor: Chef Lilly Burdsall 

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Chocolates Masterclass
Class for Ages 16+
Monday, September 21st | 6:00-8:30pm

Join Chef Alex for a class all about CHOCOLATE! In this class we’ll learn some of the science of chocolate, the process to tempering, and some of the best methods for working with this delicious ingredient! We’ll work in pairs to prepare Chocolate Truffles (with your choice of flavoring), Chocolate Dipped Caramels with Sea Salt, and Fruit-Nut Chocolate Bark!

What You’ll Make:

  • Chocolate Truffles (choice of flavor)
  • Scratch caramels dipped in chocolate with a sea salt topping
  • Dried Fruit and Toasted Nut Chocolate Bark

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety and Sanitation
  • Tempering Chocolate
  • Making Caramels from Scratch

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • Great for Beginner-Advanced Cooks
  • Take home LOTS of treats to share

**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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Eclairs and Profiteroles
Baking for Ages 9-14 w/Adult
Monday, November 2nd | 6:00-8:00pm

Join chef Alex for a class all about the French pastry classic – the Eclair! Kids work with their adult to prepare Pate au Choux dough, pipe out eclair and profiterole shapes, prepare vanilla custard from scratch, assemble their eclairs and dunk them in chocolate glaze! Each kid/adult duo will take home at least 12 delicious eclairs to enjoy with family and friends!

What you’ll learn:

  • The pate au choux dough method
  • Baking up delicious eclairs
  • Preparing custards from scratch
  • Kitchen safety and sanitation

More about this class:

  • Great for beginner to advanced youth bakers
  • Youth must be accompanied by an adult (18+)

Instructor: Alex Noel

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