LPK’s Culinary Groove is very excited to offer three classes right in your home: Baking Basics, Pastry Basics and Chocolate Basics. Lesia Kohut has taught several baking and chocolate classes at Bonnie Gordon’s School of Cake Decorating & Design and now comes to you with everything you need for a fun and educational afternoon or evening: all the ingredients, recipes, techniques and tools. At the end of the class, everyone will enjoy sitting down to sample Lesia’s freshly-prepared desserts…and taking the leftover goodies home!

All classes are four hours in length, are offered to groups of six or more students, and cost $400.00* for six people. The fee for each additional student after six is $40.00* per person. *Please note, GST is not included.

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Pastry Basics

Featuring: Lemon Curd, Vanilla Shortbread, Bittersweet
Ganache, Chocolate Shortbread, Italian Meringue,
and Whipped Cream.

Students will be shown the versatility of these recipes, which can either stand alone, or be combined using various techniques to prepare an assortment of cookies, mini tarts and individual desserts for a scrumptious sweet table.

Baking Basics

Featuring: Golden Butter Cake, Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake,
Carrot Cake, Buttercream Icing, Chocolate Fudge Frosting,
and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing.

Students will learn the basic principles of baking a cake, and the different methods which apply to different types of cakes. The art of making a traditional Italian Meringue Buttercream will be demystified, and students will learn how to make two additional simple, yet delicious frostings to accompany a variety of cakes.

Chocolate Basics

Featuring: How to temper chocolate; keep chocolate in
temper while working with it; hand roll, mould, and hand dip truffles; and prepare ganache.

Students will be shown two different tempering methods (tabling, seeding); they will have an opportunity to hand roll their own truffles, and learn how to correctly use and care for professional polycarbonate chocolate moulds, and hand dip truffles.



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