Italian Desserts Cooking Class

Cooking lessons to learn to bake like an Italian. Add Italian cakes, tarts, cookies, fritters to your baking repertoire

What you'll learn
How to use basic ingredients in the pantry to make wholesome delicious recipes
How to customise a recipe according to the ingredients they have in their fridge and pantry
How to create a Tuscan cooking repertoire
Requirements
No previous cooking experience needed
You will need basic cooking equipment such as pots with lids, pans, baking dishes, baking sheets and bowls
You might need for certain recipes a rolling pin and a pasta machine, or the pasta attachment for your stand mixer
You will need access to a stove and an oven
You will need to shop for the ingredients listed in the recipes
Description
I am a Tuscan born and bred food writer and cookbook author. I've been teaching cooking classes in my house in the countryside between Siena and Florence for about 10 years. In this course, I'm sharing my family recipes, the menus for everyday meals and festive occasions, the tips and tricks learned teaching recipes to beginners from all over the world.With this course, you will join me in my kitchen, attending step-by-step cooking demonstrations to show you exactly how to prepare each recipe. We're going to use simple, affordable ingredients. Stock up your pantry and be ready to start cooking like an Italian and Tuscan home cook. Try each recipe soon after you have watched the lesson and enjoy the food with your family.We will make biscotti, and you’ll learn how to customize them according to the ingredients you have in your pantry. You’ll learn how to use extra virgin olive oil in baking. We’ll see together how to make the basic recipe for shortcrust and use it in several recipes. We’ll make together classic desserts like panna cotta and tiramisù, and Tuscan favorites as zuppa inglese and pinolata. You’ll learn how to make fritters with seasonal foraged flowers, too.>> Follow us on our blog Juls' Kitchen and social media to have a discount price <<Recipes include:Almond biscottiExtra virgin olive oil cakeRobinia flowers frittersItalian Shortcrust Pastry, the basic recipe to make your favorite sweetsCrostata alla Marmellata, the classic Italian jam shortcrust tartOcchi di Bue, the Italian sandwich cookies that you can find in every cafe in ItalyCrostatine alla Frutta, pastry cream and fresh fruit tartletsZuppa inglese | (available soon)Tiramisù | (available soon)Panna cotta | (available soon)Pinolata | (available soon)As bonus recipes, you can also find:how to make the Italian pastry creamhow to make a chocolate ganacheYou will learn:How to cook many simple, traditional, classic Italian and Tuscan desserts and sweet treatsHow to close a meal with a sweet note with an Italian flairHow to use extra virgin olive oil in bakingHow to make shortcrust pastry

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About Juls' Kitchen

Lecture 2 About our cooking classes

Lecture 3 About Italian desserts cooking class

Section 2: Almond Biscotti

Lecture 4 Introduction

Lecture 5 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 6 How to prepare the biscotti dough

Lecture 7 How to cook (twice) the biscotti

Section 3: Extravirgin Olive Oil Cake

Lecture 8 About Extravirgin Olive Oil Cake

Lecture 9 Ingredients

Lecture 10 It's time to bake

Lecture 11 Buon appetito!

Section 4: Robinia flowers fritters

Lecture 12 About robinia flowers fritters

Lecture 13 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 14 How to prepare the batter

Lecture 15 It's time to fry

Lecture 16 Buon appetito!

Section 5: Shortcrust pastry - Basic recipe

Lecture 17 About shortcrust pastry

Lecture 18 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 19 It's time to make Pasta Frolla

Lecture 20 The day after…

Section 6: Jam Shortcrust Tart

Lecture 21 About jam shortcrust tart

Lecture 22 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 23 It's time to prepare the crostata

Lecture 24 Buon appetito!

Section 7: Shortcrust sandwich cookies

Lecture 25 About shortcrust sandwich cookies

Lecture 26 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 27 Let's prepare the cookies

Lecture 28 Let's prepare the chocolate ganache

Lecture 29 How to fill up the cookies

Lecture 30 Buon appetito!

Section 8: Shortcrust tartlets

Lecture 31 About shortcrust tartlets

Lecture 32 Ingredients and tools

Lecture 33 Let's make the pastry cream

Lecture 34 Let's prepare the tartlets

Lecture 35 Let's prepare the tartlet shells

Lecture 36 How to prepare the strawberries

Lecture 37 How to fill up the tartlets

Lecture 38 Buon appetito!

Beginner cooks who want to add Tuscan and Italian recipes to their cooking repertoire,Those who have an interest in Tuscan cooking and want to start with the basics,Italian food lovers who want to cook at home traditional Tuscan food