Tag: BAKE!
Make your own holiday treats
Unleash your creativity on cookies! Sign up for our Creative Cookies class on Thursday, October 29th, 5:30-9:30pm and celebrate the season with treats you made yourself. Decorated cookies make great gifts, party favors, stocking stuffers and holiday centerpieces. In this class you’ll learn to make tasty butter cookies and use a variety of decorating techniques. You’ll make your own cookie dough and fresh fondant from scratch. We’ll show you how to decorate your cookies with fondant and royal icing and then you’ll get plenty of hands-on practice. We provide an assortment of cookie cutters, but you’re welcome to bring your own (3″ to 4″ please).
You’ll leave BAKE! with our recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, fondant and a dozen dazzling decorated cookies you created yourself, plus great coupons.
Candy demonstration class
The man behind the sweet dreams of Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory, managing partner Charlie Frank, will be leading a candy demonstration class on Wednesday, October 7th and Thursday, October 8th, 6-8pm.
Charlie’s passion for all things chocolate and sugar is infectious, and his knowledge of the science behind them is extensive. Charlie returns to BAKE! this time to share his all-time favorite confection, the amazing Four Brothers confection. In this class, you’ll observe Charlie making two recipes, each with their own sweet techniques: gianduja, a delicious chocolate-nut spread; and dragée, coating individual nuts in caramelized sugar. Charlie will then combine the two, and enrobe them in chocolate to create the sensational Four Brothers. At the end of class you’ll taste some of the freshly made candy.
Charlie first experienced this nutty, crunchy, creamy creation when he was attending the Culinary Institute of America in New York on a Zingerman’s staff scholarship to study confection techniques. So why is this the candyman’s favorite confection? “I still remember the smell of those caramelized roasted hazelnuts,” Charlie says with a dreamy smile on his face.
Don’t miss your chance to experience the candy that makes Charlie sigh, and sign up today!
See you soon!
Spice Trekkers share the love
This week we’ve been very fortunate to welcome our friends the de Vienne family for a several days of talking, eating, learning, and laughter. Based in Monréal, the Spice Trekkers have been encouraging people to learn about spices and grind their own for over a decade. “Spices have an undeserved reputation for being complicated,” says founder Ethné de Vienne: “It seems like people are waiting for permission to get creative with spices. Spices have few rules. We just want to tell people it’ll be fine, just start cooking!”
We thought it would be great if they could show us what they mean, so we asked them to visit Ann Arbor for a series of workshops aimed at exploring the use of whole spices in cooking. In addition, they shared their knowledge with Zingerman’s guests in special dinners at the Roadhouse, and the Deli, as well as a class at Zingerman’s BAKE!
Here are some highlights:
Merci beaucoup amis!
BIG NEWS!
Our new BAKE! class schedule is live and ready for new students!
New classes include Detroit classics, gluten-free pies, pasta making and so much more…over 70 classes in all!
Find new class dates and times through July 2015 at www.bakewithzing.com!
See you in class!
BAKE! is our hands-on teaching bakery in Ann Arbor, located between Zingerman’s Bakehouse and Zingerman’s Creamery at our south side campus. At BAKE! we share our knowledge and love of baking with the home baker community, seeking to preserve baking traditions and inspire new ones. We offer dozens of different bread, pastry and cake classes in our very own teaching kitchens. You’ll leave BAKE! with the food you made in class and the inspiration and skills to bake at home!
Learn the basics at BAKE!
Bake me a Cake
Baking Pies a Plenty
Fabulous French Baguettes
Naturally Leavened breads
Ooh La La Croissants
NEW BAKE! classes
Advanced Cake Decorating
Boston Cream Pie
More Gluten Free
Savory Baking
New cooking classes at BAKE!
American Candy with Charlie Frank
Hungarian Supper with Rodger Bowser
Dinner Series: American, French or Italian
Make it a BAKE!-cation
Like fantasy camp for home bakers!
Pastry 2.0 Weekend, May 17th & 18th
Bread Week, June 3rd-6th
Pastry Week, July 8th-11th
Savory Week, July 22nd-25th
Sign up today and BAKE! with us!
BAKE! up some memories with your kids!
Looking for a fun, family-oriented activity for the upcoming winter break? Why not attend one our Family Classes at BAKE? Family classes are an opportunity for families and kids 7 + to learn how bake tasty treats in a safe, hands-on environment. The family works on a recipe together and you’ll take home what you made in class!
Spend quality time together in our kitchen making something delicious. Then we’ll clean up the mess while you head home to enjoy eating your success. These are modified versions of our classes—still hands-on, same great recipes, just scaled back a bit for younger students.
See you at BAKE!
Week of February 17th:
Cupcakes
Wednesday, February 19, 1:00pm-4:00pm
We’ll do a little baking and a lot of decorating, so that you can create your own tasty and cute-as-a-button cupcakes. The family works on a recipe together and you’ll take home what you made in class!
Brownies
Thursday, February 20, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Brownies are easy, even without the box! You’ll learn how to make really great brownies with really great ingredients. The family works on a recipe together and you’ll take home what you made in class!
Doughnuts
Friday, February 21, 1:00pm-4:00pm
You won’t have to make any early morning runs to the bakery after learning how easy and fun it is to make homemade doughnuts!