Dessert Classes in Chicago, IL

Yes! You can make your favorite ice cream at home, and it's easier than you think. Come learn the art of making this special treat along with classic sauces, and you'll create a fabulous sundae bar to enjoy at the end of class. Menu: Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Chocolate Sauce and Strawberry Sauce Skills...

This 4-hour excursion through mixology, where you will learn everything from the essential of cocktail creations to the nuances of pairing fresh fruit and herbs with unique spirits, will have you surprising and entertaining guests and/or clients in no time.  Whether you have no experience, have taken a bartending course, or are an experienced...

Making pies isn't as hard as you might think! Get tips from a pro on how to make tender, flaky crusts, wrap them around sweet and savory fillings, and bake them to golden perfection. Menu: Perfect Pie Dough Blueberry-Lemon Hand Pies with Cream Cheese Dough Sweet Corn Quiche with Arugula, Sun-Dried Tomato and Parmesan Salad Individual Chocolate...

It’s Funfetti cake time! You know the one … the perfect celebration cake created by Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar, and is all the rage. This cake is a hands down staff favorite and we have ordered enough of these re-creations from Madeleine’s and the Traveling Bake Shop here at NAPCA for all of our celebrations – we thought you’d...

Come join your expert tour guide for a delightful stroll through some of the Chicago's most decadent dessert boutiques and chocolatiers along the Magnificent Mile on the Chocolate Tour of Chicago! The chocolate industry is a steadily growing, $50 billion-a-year worldwide business! Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the dried and partially fermented...

Making pies isn't as hard as you might think! Get tips from a pro on how to make tender, flaky crusts, wrap them around sweet and savory fillings, and bake them to golden perfection. Menu: Perfect Pie Dough;  Cranberry Curd Tart with Whipped Cream and Candied Orange Zest;  Individual Dutch Apple Pies;  Sweet Potato Hand Pies with...

Gelato is one of the best-loved Italian exports in the world. Here at Eataly, we craft fresh, all-natural gelato in small batches using the highest-quality ingredients from Italy and the U.S., such as milk from Lamers Dairy in Wisconsin, local fruit, Sicilian pistachios and hazelnuts from Piemonte.  In this class, you’ll gather for an exclusive...

J’adore Paris! Do you? Join us as we travel to the streets of Paris and learn the techniques to make buttery hand-folded Croissants complete with layers of delicate flaky dough and beautiful picture-worthy Eclairs with a sinfully delicious pastry cream and chocolate ganache glaze. Take home a box of fresh Parisian pastries made entirely from scratch...

Join us for a hands-on pastry class, taught by Eataly Chicago’s La Scuola chef Johanna Medina focused on how to prepare the Tuscan answer to biscotti, Cantucci Toscani.  In this class, you’ll learn how to make cantucci from scratch. Chef Johanna will start of the class with a tasting of various cantucci paired alongside a glass of Vin Santo,...

Celebrate Bastille Day and “let them eat cake” in this hands-on baking class. You’ll master baking techniques such as using an egg foam, methods for creaming butter, and buttercream frosting basics as you prepare a variety of cakes: orange chiffon, yellow layer cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, and sour cream coffee cake.

Have your cake and eat it, too! Make several varieties of delicious cupcakes, and bring them home to impress your friends and family. We will teach you fun, easy ways to decorate them, too. Lunch will be served during class. Menu: Lemon-Buttermilk Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Sweet Corn Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting Chocolate...

In our new series, you’ll make it, take it home, and bake it! In this class, Chef Rachel will teach you the art of the perfect pie crust, pie filling, and pie assembly. After making the pie dough, rolling each out to fit into two pie shells, you’ll fill one with seasonal blueberries and one with apples. One pie will be topped with a crumble, one...

In a cone, a dish, or sandwiched between two warm cookies, who doesn’t love summer’s creamiest dessert delight. Guest Chef Alissa Wallers of the French Pastry School is churning ice cream and creating all scratch-made toppings. Think hot fudge, caramel sauce, caramelized nuts, cookies for a stackable ice cream treat. Now that’s an ice cream bar!...

Basic pastry doughs serve as a base in both sweet and savory recipes. You will watch how to prepare an assortment of quick doughs for summer meals such as cream cheese dough in corn and ham empanadas, pâte à choux pastry in tomato basil ricotta eclairs, and biscuit dough in herbed biscuits with chorizo gravy.

The autumn harvest provides fruit perfect for delicious desserts. In this cooking class, you will learn how to prepare tasty treats such as apple and brown butter blondies, prune plum tart, and pear pound cake, just right for an afternoon snack or completing a fall meal.