Instructive – Cambridge Cookery School

FESTIVE SPECIAL – Seasonal Breads

ccs — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:21:42 +0000

Join us for a wonderful seasonal class focusing on some of the most delicious breads from Europe. We we will make a French Pain d’éoice, Swedish saffron plat, a magnificent German Stollen and a Norwegian Julekake.

You will make one whole bread of each to take home – no sharing, all hands on!

All breads are perfect for freezing, ready to be enjoyed over the holidays,

The class starts with fresh bread, tea and coffee and includes a light lunch with more lovely bread. Full recipes are of course also included.

Knife Skills

ccs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:33:04 +0000

Learning how to handle a knife safely and efficiently is one of the most fundamental and useful skills in the kitchen. This hands-on class will take you through which types of knives to use for different tasks, how much to pay and how to sharpen. You will learn how to dice and slice various vegetables to create juliennes, batons and mire-poix as well as how to cross-chop and chiffonade herbs. We then move on to jointing whole, free-range chicken, and proceed to make stock and two delicious dinner party dishes to sample at the end of the evening together with a glass of red.

You will leave with best part of a jointed, organic chicken as well as some of the vegetables you prepared.

Panettone and Mince Pies for Parents and children/teens

ccs — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 11:16:41 +0000

An annual favourite with classes filling up from January!

A wonderful activity for (grand)parents and children/teens, resulting in an impressive Panettone for the festive season and some magnificent mince pies.

Includes sparkling wine, soft drinks and box to take home the panettone in.

£35 per additional child (max one extra child per adult)

Panettone and Mince Pies for Parents and children/teens – Morning class 11th

ccs — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:24:40 +0000

An annual favourite with classes filling up from January!

A wonderful activity for (grand)parents and children/teens, resulting in an impressive panettone for the festive season and some magnificent mince pies.

Includes sparkling wine, soft drinks and box to take home the panettone in.

£35 per additional child (max one extra child per adult)

Panettone and Mince Pies for Parents and children/teens

ccs — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:05:35 +0000

An annual favourite with classes filling up from January!

A wonderful acticity for parents and children, resulting in an impressive panettone for the festive season and some magnificent mince pies.

Includes sparkling wine, soft drinks and box to take home the panettone in.

£25 per additional child (max one extra child per adult)

Panettone and Mince Pies for Parents and children/teens

ccs — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:45:39 +0000

An annual favourite with classes filling up from January!

A wonderful activity for (grand)parents and children/teens, resulting in an impressive Panettone for the festive season and some magnificent mince pies.

Includes sparkling wine, soft drinks and box to take home the panettone in.

£35 per additional child (max one extra child per adult)

FESTIVE SPECIAL – Seasonal Breads

ccs — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:49:36 +0000

All breads are perfect for freezing, ready to be enjoyed over the holidays. All guests make one whole bread of each – no sharing, all hands on!

The class starts with fresh bread, tea and coffee and includes a light lunch with more lovely bread. Full recipes are of course also included.

Continental Christmas Celebration cakes with Javier Cervantes

ccs — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:39:25 +0000

How about swapping shop-bought chrstimas cake for home made Chestnut and Rum Raisins Butter cream Buche de Noel and Traditional Marzipan Stollen?!

Spanish born, London based Patissère Javier Cervantes will safely guide us through all the techniques behind these amazing cakes, including French Meringue, Buttercream, Lady Fingers Roulade, Marzipan and enriched, yeast based butter Stollen dough

Javier runs sell-out worshops for Divertimenti Cookery School in London and is in high demand for private client work. This class is the culmination of a series of classes Javier has agreed to run for us and a first for Cambridge. Javier’s master classes offer an unrivalled opportunity for competent bakers wishing to learn from a master and sheer heaven for those who simply love baking and fancy the idea of upping the ante for the festive season.

Coffee, tea and cake, a light savoury snack to keep blood sugar in check and a glass of bubbly are included in the class as is our usual full recipe pack. Bakers will of course leave with their own version of both cakes as well as sampling Javier’s master pieces in class.

Beginners Bread Class

Suzy — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:34:16 +0000

We love the way this class results in simple euphoria – so great is the joy of baking perfect bread! Our expert bakers will guide you through fresh and dried yeast, the impact of different types of flour, the secrets of rising, shaping and proving amazingly good bread.

No previous experience or a dab hand already – either way this class will open your eyes to what makes good bread. We start with coffee and cake and finish with a light lunch with wine. You will leave with groaning bags of fresh bread and we recommend creating some space in your freezer prior to the class!

Read a review of our Bread class here.

Gorgeously gluten free!

ccs — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:20:11 +0000

More and more people either entirely cut out or try to limit gluten from their diets.

Gluten is the scaffolding in bread and many other farinaceous types of food and when it goes out, so does texture, elasticity and moisture.

This class aims to remidy that by introducing a wonderful recipe for lovely, dark chewy Teff bread, crusty pizza, hand made pasta, delightful banana pancakes and our favourite Blueberry and Buck wheat porridge with poached pears. We will also include our now legendary sea salt and chocolate Brownies – a staple in the café which constantly receives ecstatic reviews and repeat purchasing.