If you are serious about your cooking skills, especially baking, you need a proper teacher and a real academy to finesse this fine art. Luckily, there are some great baking masters around the world, and we will go through some of the best ones.
International Culinary Education (ICE), New York
This New York-based school of pastry and baking offers a wide variety of classes. Their amazing treat lineup is perfect for gourmets who wish to focus on specific baked goods. You are able to choose from dozens of fun and unique classes and master the baking of Truffles, Brioche Brunch, Artisan Doughnuts, Artisan Cheesecakes, Cobblers, and Shortcakes. You can, of course, take your creations home to enjoy them.
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Truffle Nation, New Delhi, India
Another famous name in the business that offers professional bakery classes in Delhi is Truffle Nation, which is a premium baking school. It presents you to a very immersive learning experience. All of their classes are hands-on, so the learning experience is at the top level. Their policy is a limited number of members in each group so that everyone gets an equal amount of attention from the expert teachers.
Magnolia Bakery, NYC, Chicago, LA
Magnolia Bakery in NYC is the birthplace of all the craziness for cupcakes. Now, you can take icing classes in either Manhattan, Chicago, or Los Angeles. A class lasts for an hour and a half, and each has a theme. Some of these include classics, while others offer specialty-filled and holiday cupcakes. In addition, you will learn how to bake flower cupcakes, inscriptions, piped cupcakes, and cupcake swirls. Depending on the class, you get to take home either six cupcakes or a full cake.
Jodi Liano, a long-time teacher at the Tante Marie’s Cooking school, puts focus on “culinary intuition,” and arms the students with skills that are crucial to have success in this business. The San Francisco based school opened in the fall of 2012. It offers more than 70 different cooking classes, which is the biggest variety on the West Coast. In these classes, you can learn how to make donuts, cookie decorations, summer pies, fritters, chocolate cake, pavlova, lemon tart, and pâte à Choux.
Le Gargantua, Anzex, France
This special pastry course lasts for a week. It is located in a secluded restored farmhouse in Bordeaux countryside, France. It surely differs from the big and loud neighborhoods we talked about so far. The hospitality of the hosts knows no limits, as you will have meals, lodging, fine local wine, and trips to bakeries in the nearby town. During the course, you will cover a comprehensive list of French pastries, like eclairs with crème pâtissière fillings, tarte au citron withpâtesablée crust. The class is gentle and welcoming for both the beginners and advanced students. The idyllic setting and immersion in the local life only make it more appealing.
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Bread Ahead, London, United Kingdom
This bakery school opened in February 2014 in London’s Borough Market. It masterfully shows the by passers how baking great bread can be easy and wonderful. Matt Jones (of Flour Power City) and Justin Gellatly (former head baker at St. John Bakery) are the founders who love great bread. Their classes teach the arts of pizza, donuts, croissants, Middle Eastern Flatbread, Nordic Baking, Celtic Baking and Stollen, the popular German Christmas.
Ballymaloe Cookery, Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland
It is famous worldwide for its 12-week intensive certificate program. For those less hardcore, it also has afternoon, day, and weeklong courses. They hold the classes on a 100-acre organic farm in southeast Ireland, near the very of the Irish Sea. Here you can study Irish, British, and French baking. Their sessions also include Afternoon Tea & Cakes, as well as Decorating Celebration Cakes. It is great for casuals and enthusiasts, and everyone will surely want more from this magnificent school of baking.
Cake Central Design Studio, New Delhi, India
When it comes to professional baking classes in Delhi, the Cake Central Design Studio offers workshops on chocolate making, fondant designing, cake decoration, and of course baking. An acclaimed cake artist Ms. Natasha Mohan takes her classes seriously and teaches them all by herself. This academy firmly believes in quality craftsmanship, and that should also be the focus for their students, which they encourage. You have a free choice of individual or group classes, as well as a whole course or just a single class. They offer a professional environment and great service, which you will not regret.
