Type: Teens

This class starts with an introduction to cacao, the history of chocolate, the role and art of tempering and the difference between couverture, ganache and plain chocolate.

You will learn to temper and we will use your tempered chocolate to create shaped shells to fill. You will make ganache and use it to pipe fillings into both pre-made shells and the shells made in class. We will also make hand rolled truffles from different pre-made and set ganaches.

The class will finish with a glass of chilled fizz while we pack up the chocolate in gift bags and boxes.

We are found at the very end of Purbeck Road (off Hills Rd by the sixth form centre) where you turn left by Abbey college and then carry straight on for about 60m to the white awnings you will see ahead.

Please note that there is rather limited parking on site.

Come and enjoy a half term day in our kitchen. We love modern Italian food, and this class features light, zingy, healthy food based around seasonal ingredients – as Italian food should be!

Zucchini Focaccia – how to bake amazing bread from scratch with only 5 ingredients.

Fresh, hand made egg based pasta for Tagliatelle 

Lemon sauce for pasta

Zucchini, lemon, chilli and Parmesan salad

Biscotti – make your own delicious, bias-cut little orange and pine nut Biscotti to bring home

We are found at the very end of Purbeck Road (off Hills Rd by the sixth form centre) where you turn left by Abbey college and then carry straight on for about 60m to the white awnings you will see ahead.

Please note that there is virtually no parking on site. We recommend the multi storey at the Leisure Centre less than 10min walk away or the Babraham Park & Ride which stops on Hills Road, very close to Purbeck Rd.

Enjoy a wonderful half term morning baking together under the tutelage of our friendly master bakers.

This class includes a platted rye mix bread, Brioches – plain or chocolate – and French sweet Baguettes Viennoise, perfect for dunking in your breakfast Hot Chocolate or Café au Lait.

Leave with a bag of your freshly made goodies and if you like, stay for lunch in the Café.

When you book you will see two ticket options/prices. One admits 2, i.e. one adult and one child, the other an additional child.

A little master class covering the wonders that are hand made Italian pasta and Risotto.

We make perfect pasta dough and how to create little ridged Garganelli pasta tubes as well as sleek Tagliatelle with two classic accompaniments  – Broccoli with garlic and chilli; and fresh tomato & basil sauce.

We also make dough for Pizza, bread sticks and Focaccia. Some of the tomato sauce made will go on the pizzas. Focaccia and bread sticks will come back home with the teens after the class.

We are found at the very end of Purbeck Road (off Hills Rd by the sixth form centre) where you turn left by Abbey college and then carry straight on for about 60m to the white awnings you will see ahead.

The teens won’t need to bring anything but we ask that arms, legs and feet are covered, long hair tied up and dangly jewellery left at home. We also ask teens not to use/touch their mobile phones while cooking – for reasons of hygiene.

Whether your teen is already spending time experimenting in the kitchen or displaying a worrisome lack of interest in meal preparations, this class has been designed to motivate and inspire young cooks. Our chefs talk professional kitchen tips and introduce key skills for healthy and independent cooking. The class includes

Knife skills

Organisation and hygiene

Scrambled eggs – 10 seconds to make a healthy dish for breakfast, lunch or supper 

How to make daily soup from basic vegetables

How to bake bread

How to roast a chicken and get several meals from it

How to roast potatoes and how to get into eating salads every day 

How to bake a simple sponge cake

Full recipe packs included; cake and bread to take home.

We are found at the very end of Purbeck Road (off Hills Rd by the sixth form centre) where you turn left by Abbey college and then carry straight on for about 60m to the white awnings you will see ahead.

Please note that there is very limited parking on site. We recommend the multi storey at the Leisure Centre less than 10min walk away or the Babraham Park & Ride which stops on Hills Road, very close to Purbeck Rd.