Paris Croissant and Breakfast Pastry Class with a French Chef
Only 6 participants in each class.
With our course led by a French pastry Chef, you'll learn all the secrets of crafting the perfect croissant, from the intricacies of the puff pastry dough to the chemistry behind creating that flaky texture. You'll enjoy a studious yet fun atmosphere that allows for plenty of hands-on learning and personalised instruction.
Bring home the tastiest of souvenirs with this 3-hour tour. You will learn the technique for making delicious buttery croissants.
Located just a stone's throw from Montmartre and the Sacré-Coeur, our welcoming and well-equipped studio provides the perfect setting for learning and practicing the art of croissant-making. And once you've perfected your skills, you'll get to enjoy your delicious creations on-site with a hot beverage, or take them to go for later.
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What's included in Paris Croissant and Breakfast Pastry Class with a French Chef
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Only 6 participants in each class. After 3 hours spent with our French Chef, you will have acquired the know-how to make croissants that are light, crispy on the outside and melt-in-your-mouth soft on the inside. You will learn and perform each step in making classic buttery croissants and pain au chocolat (chocolate-filled croissants). On Thursday morning classes, we offer to make bicolor croissants filled with chocolate pralin. You will learn some specific techniques : • Make the Beurrage: to add butter to the dough that is called pâton. • Pâton : the block of croissant dough after the butter has been folded into the detrempe to form an envelope. • Make the turns: to give turns to the croissant dough (pâton) by rolling the dough and folding it. • Feuilleter (to make into leaves): enclosing the butter in a layer of dough and folding and rolling the dough to form thin layers or leaves. • Follow "la pousse" (the fermentation and the rising) : the expansion of the fermented dough caused by the yeast during the rising.
Food Menu
DESSERT - Croissant and breakfast pastries
DESSERT - Bicolor croissants
On Thursday morning classes, we offer to make bicolor croissants filled with chocolate pralin.
Inclusions
- Small groups of maximum 6 participants
- Professional French pastry Chef
- English language copy of the recipes. Aprons. All cooking equipment
- To celebrate our 10th anniversary we’re happy to offer you our “Everyday Gourmet French Tarts” eBook
- Tea and coffee
- Take home bags
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transportation to/from attractions
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- A maximum of 6 people per booking
- The minimum age requirement for our croissant classes is 16 years old. Those students older than 17, but still considered minors, must be accompanied by an adult registered for the class.
- Please advise any allergies or special dietary requirements at the time of booking
- Please advise your Paris contact details at time of booking; this information is for the tour operator to keep on record for contact purposes only
- Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there is not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
- Layered yeast-leavened dough requires a lot of prep time, preferably starting the day before. The time requirement and technicalities are what make croissants so demanding. Therefore, so stages will be done to ensure that you will be able to enjoy your pastries at the end of the course. You’ will still work these stages during the course..
- Please wear comfortable, casual clothing and flat comfortable shoes, long hair should be tied back.
- After 5 minutes of delay we shall begin the course without the late client. After 15 minutes without anybody showing up, the class will automatically be cancelled, and your booking may be treated as a last minute non-refundable cancellation.
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
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Ticket Redemption
• Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there is not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund • We work very hard to respect the schedules of our clients and we do aim to start our classes on time. So we ask that you be here 5 to 10 minutes before the start of the class to ensure you are ready for a timely start. If you are late or if you can't join the class, thank you for contacting us. After ten minutes of delay we shall begin the course without you. Thank you. • We ask wear comfortable, casual clothing and flat shoes, long hair should be tied back. Please, do not wear open-toed shoes. • Layered yeast-leavened dough requires a lot of prep time, preferably starting the day before. The time requirement and technicalities are what make croissants so demanding. Therefore, so stages will be done to ensure that you will be able to enjoy your pastries at the end of the course. You’ will still work these stages during the course.
