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Pastry/Bakery & French language course

Dare to try pastry cooking & bread-making, enjoy and succeed in doing them : cake-making & decoration, pastry bases and creams for tarts and mini-tarts, croissants, puff pastry for starters & desserts and the wonders of icing and sugar decoration. Special, whole & grain breads.

An enthusiastic, talented teacher, Chef Alain, with his artistic flair and high technical qualifications, teaches you in a relaxed setting and leads you on a creative adventure that will teach you the basics, improve on them, and encourage you to use your imagination in the creation of a sugar sculpture.

Chef Alain since gaining his title as Best Pastry Chef of the Year has taught for internationally-renowned culinary schools as a pastry chef.

• 5 mornings of French Language group classes - 6 max per group
   

• 2 afternoon French Pastry classes in French with a discreet translation for non French speakers where you can make cakes, pastries, desserts and decoration 

• Preparations: pastry dough, lining a tart mould, lining fancy cakes, cutting dough, "detrempe" for puffed pastry, buttering, turning cutting & baking puffed pastry 

• Recipes: Sweet dough, crushed dough, puffed pastry, chocolate cream, frangipane cream, pastry cream 

• Dishes: Fruit tarts & mini tarts, fancy cakes, a variety of cookies, pithiviers, vol au vent, pear chaussons, millefeuille

• 2 afternoon French Bakery classes: 

• Preparations: Dough kneading, fermentation control, bread-baking 

• Recipes: Croissant dough, special breads, whole grain, whole-meal breads

• Dishes: Croissants, pains au chocolat, sultana rolls, different kinds of bread