Cooking

Learn from local chefs, cooks and bakers, and discover delicious, healthy food ideas for your busy lifestyle!

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Courses

Beginner Cookie Decorating

If you’ve never worked with royal icing or have dabbled just a little, this class will help you get the ball rolling.  We will work step by step on each cookie to learn the various decorating techniques used with royal icing, specifically piping/outlining, flooding, and wet-on-wet techniques. There are five cookie designs planned, and we will keep things rolling to get them all completed by the end of class. You will be taking them home with you in a bakery box, along with a royal icing recipe, a sugar cookie recipe, a decorating tool, a cookie cutter and a packet of seasonal sprinkles and/or cookie decorations. All
supplies are provided. This semester, class will be shortened to two hours by offering an informational handout, as well as a video, via email, with basics of baking cookies, tips and tricks of the trade, and a list of places online to check out for additional tutorials, instructional blogs, recipes, and vendors/suppliers for those who want to take it to the
next level. Ages 10+.

Students who have to withdraw must do so at least 5 days prior to the start of the
course for a full refund. 

2/11 - Valentine's Theme

3/27 - Easter Theme

4/10 - Easter Theme

4/24 - Spring Theme

Course will be held in 

Cindy Burek of Buttercup Cookie, Instructor

Beginner Cookie Decorating
Schedule Section Seats Left Cost Register
Thursday, 4/10
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm		 ZCOK-023 602 8 seats left $69
Thursday, 4/24
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm		 ZCOK-023 603 3 seats left $69

Beginner Cookie Decorating Plus

Have you taken our Beginner Cookie Decorating class one or more times, and want to learn more detailed cookie designs? Beginner Cookie Decorating Plus is the next level course to bring those basic beginner cookies up a notch. Students, ages 10 and older, will work step by step on each cookie to learn hands-on the various decorating techniques used with royal icing. Cindy Burek of Buttercup Cookie will teach the same piping/outlining, flooding, and wet-on-wet techniques as in her beginner class, but she will introduce other techniques, tools and supplies to enhance your cookies even more. Students will complete four to five cookie designs that they will take home with them in a bakery box, along with a decorating tool, a cookie cutter, and a packet of seasonal sprinkles and/or cookie decorations. All supplies are provided. Once class registration has closed, students will be sent Cindy’s informational blog, loaded with instructions on the basics of baking cookies, tips and tricks of the trade, and links to places online to check out for additional tutorials. 

Students who have to withdraw must do so at least 5 days prior to the start of the
course for a full refund. 

2/13 - Valentine Theme

4/7 - Easter Theme

Course will be held in 

Cindy Burek of Buttercup Cookie, Instructor

Beginner Cookie Decorating Plus
Schedule Section Seats Left Cost Register
Monday, 4/7
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm		 ZCOK-113 601 1 seats left $79

Cupcake Decorating

In this class, you will learn how to fill and use a decorating bag, as well as how to use a variety of piping tips to decorate cupcakes and cakes with borders, flowers, balloons and more. You will decorate six cupcakes over two sessions using decorating bags, candy and other supplies and can take those supplies home. All supplies are provided. Students who have to withdraw must do so at least one week prior to the start of the course for a full refund. 

Course will be held in 

Tara Connors, Instructor

Cupcake Decorating
Schedule Section Seats Left Cost Register
Tuesdays, 4/29 - 5/6
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm		 ZCOK-109 600 12 seats left $109

Spring Time Vegan Cooking

Here Comes the Sun! – Vegan for Spring Lovers. After this long, cold winter, how about some sun on your plate? Enjoy light corn-plantain cakes, topped with tart lemon cream, coupled with a fresh chicory-strawberry salad and broccoli slaw. Join us for 2 ½ hours of hands-on cooking in a lively social atmosphere, and delight in the delicious outcomes! Here comes the sun… and I say, it’s alright! Course fee includes $25 materials fee.

Course will be held in 

Olivia Townsend, Instructor

Spring Time Vegan Cooking
Schedule Section Seats Left Cost Register
Monday, 4/28
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm		 ZCOK-098 600 5 seats left $59

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