Bake & Take: Pies & Tarts!

Join Chef Melissa Walnock, a classically trained pastry chef from the CIA Apple Pie Bakery Café, in the Watergrasshill kitchen studio to discover the art of pie and tart making. This class demonstrates the best ingredients to make perfect pies and tarts. Learn how to professionally make delicious crusts and fillings and decorate/assemble pies and tarts so that they have a personal touch and look like they were created by a professional pastry chef.

We will start the class learning how to make a classic fool-proof pie crust that is perfect for sweet or savory pies! Then we will begin mixing two different pie fillings including pumpkin and apple and practice rolling out the dough. While the pies bake in the oven we will move on to the tarts! Chef Walnock will demonstrate a Rocher Tart which consists of a chocolate hazelnut tart dough, filling, nutella caramel and a chocolate…