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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with irresistible homemade treats! In this class, you’ll learn to create two indulgent desserts perfect for sharing with your sweetheart, family, or friends. Master the art of making:
Chocolate Éclairs: A decadent French pastry filled with creamy vanilla pastry cream and topped with rich chocolate ganache.
Paczki (Polish Doughnuts): A wonderfully rich, yeasted doughnut filled with sweet preserves or pastry cream.
Both desserts are broken down into easy-to-follow steps, so any home cook can achieve professional-quality results. You’ll learn essential techniques such as preparing choux pastry (Pâte à Choux), making silky pastry cream, perfecting chocolate ganache, and working with the rich dough for Paczki.
Whether you want to impress your loved ones or enjoy the sweet rewards yourself, these desserts will make your Valentine’s Day extra special. Participants can choose to make one or both desserts during the class or simply watch and learn for future baking adventures.
Participants will receive a list of ingredients for the cook-along recipe, at least a week in advance of the class to allow time for shopping and prep. This class will take place on Zoom; a free on-line software. Participants will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting.
Note: Instructors recipes are copyrighted and are only shared with those who register for this class. Refunds CANNOT be issued once the recipes/class documents are shared. One registration fee for this on-line Virtual class can include participants from the same household only. If children are participating, adult supervision is required.
Tess Georgakopoulos has been cooking for well over 40 years since she was roughly 6 years old. Born into a Greek family, the art of cooking traditional meals using ones senses rather than recipes and measurements was passed on from one generation to the next. Her father was also a trained chef who brought the magic of food to life in another form on the weekends as they cooked elaborate family meals together. Food prepared from the heart, with ones own hands and creativity was, and continues to be an expression of love in her home. As a skilled home cook and baker, Tess enjoys creating original recipes for her family and friends. Sweet, savory, or doughy, she enjoys experimenting and creating in the kitchen daily.Pressure-cooking with a stovetop cooker has been a part of her culinary repertoire for over 25 years. Tess is creating new recipes and reinventing traditional ones using the Instant Pot, which is taking her pressure-cooking to another level! She has been teaching both in-person and on-line cooking classes through community education for a number of years having worked with numerous public school districts in and around the Twin Cities. Tess has recently started writing her first cookbook, and her food blog is also in the works! Some of her creations can be seen on her Facebook page @dishitupgoodhttps://www.facebook.com/dishitupgood/ or on her Instagram Feed: Dish it up Good.
Tess Georgakopoulos
