Oakland Trip Overview
Cheryl is the pastry chef and owner with over 6 years experience as a Macaron Master and is the owner of Belle Kitchen!
I was recently featured on the Cooking Channel for my macarons. It’s incredible, but over the last 6 years, Belle Kitchen has produced over half a million macarons for weddings, events, showers and holidays.
We are known for excellence in quality, flavor and creativity. We have produced macaron unicorns, bulldogs, snowmen, reindeer and massive macarons as big as 8″!
Belle Kitchen has been recognized as best in Oklahoma by the Travel Channel, Extra Crispy and Buzzfeed.
We have been teaching Macaron classes for almost 5 years and LOVE it! Our chefs are experts and excellent teachers with beginners and seasoned bakers alike. We are looking forward to meeting you and having a unique, fun and totally hands-on experience in the kitchen.
Additional Info
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Starts: Oakland, United States
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes
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Cheryl is the pastry chef and owner with over 6 years experience as a Macaron Master and is the owner of Belle Kitchen!
I was recently featured on the Cooking Channel for my macarons. It’s incredible, but over the last 6 years, Belle Kitchen has produced over half a million macarons for weddings, events, showers and holidays.
We are known for excellence in quality, flavor and creativity. We have produced macaron unicorns, bulldogs, snowmen, reindeer and massive macarons as big as 8″!
Belle Kitchen has been recognized as best in Oklahoma by the Travel Channel, Extra Crispy and Buzzfeed.
We have been teaching Macaron classes for almost 5 years and LOVE it! Our chefs are experts and excellent teachers with beginners and seasoned bakers alike. We are looking forward to meeting you and having a unique, fun and totally hands-on experience in the kitchen.
Macarons are incredibly popular and one of the most difficult pastries to master. When I started, it took months of trial and error with the recipe, preparation, baking and temperatures. Your experience jumps right into pastry insider tips and tricks, do’s and don’ts and is limited to 10 participants. This ensures our classes highly instructional and completely hands-on.
You begin with learning what a great macaron is and then exactly how to create them from scratch. All the tips and tricks and common pitfalls are discussed. The idea and aim is that you should be able to create beautiful macarons at home!
We move on to how to perfectly pipe your macarons and how they should feel when properly cured and ready for the oven. Do not worry if you have never used a piping bag.
We then teach how create the perfect butter cream filling. As well as discussing flavors, others types of fill and correct piping technique.
In all, about 1.5 to 2 hours of solid, professional instruction.
You will leave with a full dozen macarons! Now typically, they need to rest but many are eaten right on the spot. Maybe just save one for the next day to see how they are : )
Sample Menu
• French Macarons – Tasty, beautiful French pastry.
