Fresh-Picked Seattle

Intro

As many of us have learned from watching Top Chef, the baking/dessert/pastry side of the kitchen is very different from the more savory side. If your baking technique could use some work, here are some events and resources to help take you to the next level with your bread-baking, chocolate and confection creation, pastry-making and other sweet skills.

Also check out the Tasting Menu blog. Seattle pastry chef Dana Cree (of Poppy) contributes there. Her food is amazing and she often offers great tips and ideas on the site.

Baking Instructors

• Most local cooking schools offer baking classes, see the full directory here.
• Kate McDermott is a pie guru and teaches pie-making classes.
• See local instructor Wendy Sykes of Four and 20 Blackbirds for pie & cookie classes, including some for parents and kids.
• Pastry Craft (pastry chef Laurie Pfalzer) teaches a variety of intimate, hands-on baking, pastry and confectionery classes in your home by reservation or in kitchens around Seattle and on the Eastside.

   

Baking Supplies

• Home Cake Decorating Supply in Maple Leaf is a popular spot for baking tools.
• Cookies in Ballard has more than a 1000 cookie cutters and other fun supplies.
• Dawn's Candy and Cake in Kirkland has over 8000 molds and will do special orders.

Ingredient Sources

• Big John's PFI has good prices on quality bulk chocolate and ingredients.
• Bill Fredericks, the Chocolate Man, sells chocolate and confectionary supplies and offers classes.
• PCC Natural Markets and Shoreline Central Market both have bulk sections with flours and other baking supplies.

Cookus Interruptus Pie Crust Video

Local cooking video site Cookus Interruptus has several videos for the sweeter side, like Chocolate Covered Macaroons and Pumpkin Pecan Muffins.

 

Image via Flickr user CesaraStudillo 

Seattle Baking & Dessert Cooking Classes & Events

If Google calendar shows no data, please refresh page. Use the dropdown menu (arrow at top right of calendar) to select various categories (general baking, chocolate, ice cream, etc.)

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Click here for the full alphabetical list of A La Carte food and cooking topic pages.

Contact

Contact me if you have a Puget Sound-area event to submit to this calendar or Puget Sound-based blog/site to add to the resources.  This page also has limited advertising opportunities for local businesses, contact for rates and details.

 

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