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Christmas Baking & Pastry

£183.75

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1 day
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10:00 - 17:00

Overview

Get ahead with your Christmas baking and spend a day perfecting your pastry skills in our hands-on Christmas cookery classes. You’ll learn tips and tricks for mastering various types of pastry, including rough puff and shortcrust, to create festive essentials that will indulge and impress your family and friends.

With expert guidance from the River Cottage chefs, you’ll discover that baking can be as easy as pie! Throughout the day, you’ll make Boxing Day buffet favorites, such as sausage rolls, cheese straws, savory tarts, stollen, and our twist on traditional mince pies.

As with all our Christmas cooking classes, you won’t leave hungry! Enjoy lunch prepared by our chefs and savour some of your own creations for supper, taking the rest home to get ready for the festive season.

Arrive at River Cottage

You’ll begin your River Cottage experience with a 10-15 minute walk through the wonderful pathways down to the farm, enabling you to really soak up the views of the valley.

Make yourself at home

You will meet your host and settle in with tea, coffee and treats fresh from the kitchen.

SESSION ONE

You'll start your day by mastering rough puff pastry. You'll use this buttery flaky pastry to make festive sausage rolls & cheese straws.

SESSION TWO

Next you'll tackle making shortcrust pastry, learning how to blind bake and seal the pastry ready to finish it as an indulgent savoury tart

LUNCH

Food is always the focus at River Cottage, and a seasonal lunch of local ingredients will be one of the highlights of your day.

SESSION THREE

After lunch you'll turn your attention to all things sweet and create a festive favourite- Stollen.

SESSION FOUR

You'll create a sweet pastry and use this to make the River Cottage Christmas classic - frangipane mince pies.

TO FINISH

Relax with a tea of coffee as now is a perfect time to ask your tutor any burning questions and reflect on your day.

DEPARTURE

Head back up the hill for 5pm with your pastry goods in hand and the inspiration to create a fantastic festive feast at home.

HIGHLIGHTS

– Create a festive stollen to take home

– Rough puff pastry for chestnut and sage sausage rolls & cheese straws

– Shortcrust pastry for a savoury tart

– Sweet pastry mince pies

– A delicious lunch from the River Cottage kitchen team

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