PROFESSIONAL PASTRY & BAKERY COURSE
This is an intensive 5-day course. About 20 recipes will be made from scratch. You will learn the secrets of pastry making (rising process, flour strength, temperatures and timing) in order to prepare excellent desserts for any occasion.
The teaching is always very precise but never intimidating: participants will feel at comfortable in a cozy and professional kitchen-laboratory.
Each participant receives a printed booklet with all the recipes.
The teacher will be Chef Giovanni Stecca.
PROGRAM
Lesson 1
THE CLASSIC OF PASTRY
- Puff pastry
- Brisée dough
- Choux pastry
- Pastry cream (classic, chocolate and hazelnut)
- Mouselline cream
For the creation of:
STUFFED PUFF PASTRY CANNOLI
CROQUELIN AND PARIS BREST
CHOCOLATE ECLAIR
HAZELNUT “BIGNè”
Lesson 2
SWEET RISEN DOUGH
- Dough preparations
- Brioche dough
- Puff pastry
- Autolytic dough
- Pastry cream
- Syrup for glazing
For the creation of:
BRIOCHE BREAD
ITALIAN CORNETTO
KRANZ
DEEP-FRIED DONUTS (“Bomboloni”)
Lesson 3
REFRIGERATED DESSERTS (single portions)
- Sponge bread and lady’s fingers
- English Cream
- Bavarian cream (various flavors)
- Chocolate cream
- Chocolate mousse
For the creation of:
MINI BAVARIANS (VARIOUS FLAVOURS)
MINI TIRAMISU
MULTI-LAYER COLD CAKE (to be finalized in the lesson 5)
Lesson 4
BAKED CAKES
- Shortbread
- Whipped shortbread
- “Milano” shortbread
- Almond shortbread
- Frangipane cream
For the creation of:
TARTS WITH JAM
STUFFED TARTS
FRANGIPANE CAKE
CHOCOLATE COVERED BISCUITS
Lesson 5
SAVORY RISEN DOUGH
- Savory croissants
- Savory creams
- Squared bread
- Small sandwiches
- Pizza dough
For the creation of:
STUFFED CROISSANTS
STUFFED SANDWICHES (“Tramezzini”)
MINI SANDWICHES
PIZZA MARGHERITA AND SCHIACCHIATA
This program can be expanded by attending more lessons in the following week.
Examples of new topics:
- “SEMIFREDDI”
- CHOCOLATE
- REFRIGERATED AND BAKED CAKES
The school also offers a longer program of 2 or 3 weeks on request.
INFO
Schedule
Each lesson lasts about 3 hours.
Price
Please contact us for information.
Gigliocooking issues a
Certificate of Attendance
for this course
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CONTACT US
Gigliocooking
Via del Ghirlandaio 6b
50121 Firenze FI, Italy
Tel: (+39) 055 6147210
Email: info@gigliocooking.com
P.IVA: 05895400488
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