Cooking Class - Baking Classics
Social Distancing Friendly Elevate your baking skills and learn how to make exquisite classics from scratch.
During this cooking class, you’ll learn the tricks to bake classic desserts. Chef Karen will guide you into manipulating fresh ingredients to create sweet masterpieces.
You'll begin with a delectable savory appetizer of loaded deviled eggs. Next, you'll delve into the art of baking a French favorite: the famous tarte Tatin, using fresh apples. You'll also craft the perfect golden crust to fill with mascarpone and chocolate, resulting in exquisite cannoli. For the grand finale, you'll create a luscious tiramisu, whipping heavy cream and combining it with ladyfingers, expresso, ricotta and sugar.
Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.
- Minimum Guests 2
- Maximum Guests 15
- Meal Courses 4
- Event Duration 2.5 hours
- Labels Adult, Baking, Cake Baking, Fun, Group
Reviews guests left for other experiences with Chef Karen
David
25 Apr 2024
We just finished our class (Handcrafted Italian) with Chef Karen, which we had booked for date night because we had recently been given the gift of a pasta machine and wanted to learn how to use it. The class was a great learning experience and a lot of fun, and to top it off, we shared a delicious dinner after class was over! Communication prior to the our class (through Cozymeal's messaging system) was excellent. Karen showed up right on the dot despite the fact that she had traveled from pretty far away to get to our place in San Francisco. Karen is super-organized, and we could feel the experienced professional chef vibes from the moment she walked through the door. My husband and I are reasonably good home cooks and working together with Karen, we were able to put together this pretty complex meal in under two hours. We signed up for this class because I wanted to learn how to make pasta from scratch using the machine. She taught us how to make two types of pasta: ravioli stuffed with a nice mushroom filling and fettuccine. I think I'll be able to make both of those having had this class. The class also included making a pesto and alfredo sauce, making arancini, and making tiramisu. The sauces and dessert are easy enough for us. To be honest, we were not all that interested in making arancini, which I usually find a little uninteresting, but Karen had prepared (prior to the class) a superb vegetable risotto, and the arancini were sublime, better than any I'd had previously, including in Italy. Perfectly fried up by my husband, who had never deep-fried anything in his life prior to today! During the cooking class, Karen occasionally threw in tips here and there about how we could improve a few of our cooking techniques. For example, the arancini had a flour/egg/panko coating, similar to what you use when you make wienerschnitzel. I always make a mess of it, and I was making a mess of the panko used to finally coat the arancini. Karen showed me a better technique - to handle the arancini with one hand, and keep the other hand clean, so I could put the arancini ball in the panko and use the clean hand to coat the ball. This keeps the panko clean. I'll definitely put this technique to use in the future for a variety of things that I cook. Sure, I could have learned to make fresh pasta from some online video, and probably even gotten it right after a few tries, but it was so much more fun with Chef Karen, and we had a fabulous meal after class with a lot of leftovers. Thanks, Cozymeal and Karen, for a great experience!
Gina
23 Apr 2024
Chef Karen was wonderful! She’s so personable and she’s an excellent chef. We chose the creole menu, and, while it was all amazing, I’m still thinking about the honey friend chicken two weeks later.
Shelbi
19 Apr 2024
Super kind! Super helpful and thoughtful! Over all an amazing person and experience, she also makes her recipes easy to understand, super fun and hands on. Just an amazing chef and experience!!!!!!
With over 20 years of kitchen experience, Chef Karen has done it all, from earning culinary degrees in pastry and restaurant management to working with Michelin-star chefs. She began cooking Southern soul food at age seven and now owns and operates her own catering company. She's even prepared gourmet dishes for A-listers and celebrity clients! It's all part of Chef Karen's mission of, "Building a greater community one smile at a time."
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Chef Karen will travel to guests within South Bay & Peninsula for this experience.
