TriDistrict Community Education

Valentine's Day is most celebrated with sweets and chocolates gifted as an expression of love. Learn to make two dreamy mouthwatering sweets to share or give to your sweetheart, family, friends or loved ones on Valentine's day this year! You will be guided by a step-by-step process to make professional looking and tasting desserts in this engaging online class. During this class, you will learn to make a decadent French pastry known as a Chocolate Éclairs filled with pastry cream and covered in chocolate ganache, and another wonderfully rich yeasted desert knows as Paczki (Polish Doughnuts) filled with preserves or pastry cream. The steps for each dessert will be simplified so that any home cook will be able to create professional looking and tasting desserts for Valentine’s Day. Elements of these deserts will include, making the Choux pastry (Pâte à Choux), the sweet vanilla pastry cream filling and the ganache, in addition to making the wonderfully rich dough for the Paczki. Participants will also learning to cook and build each dessert to a level of excellence. Both deserts will make for a very special and memorable Valentine’s Day!

Participants can chose to make one or the other, or both sweet treats, or simply watch to be able to make at a later time.

Have your questions answered by the instructor, interact with other participants, and increase your confidence in the kitchen with each skill that is learned, and each little bit of advice and instruction that is shared.

While cooking-along is loads of fun, and highly recommended, it is optional.

Participants will receive a list of ingredients in advance of the class with enough time for shopping and preparation. A professionally made PDF packet of the Instructors Personal Recipes from this class will also be received. 

Instructor: Tess Georgakopoulos