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VALENTINES’S COOKING CLASS: Chocolate-Raspberry-Rose Babka with Alissa Kondogiannis

February 15 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

- $79.00

This event takes place at CSI Spadina, 192 Spadina Ave., Suite 501

What could be more romantic, more aphrodisiac than the feel of soft, supple dough under your fingertips, the heady smell of melting chocolate, the perfume of roses, the warm, moist steam escaping from a freshly baked bread as you ravenously tear it open with your bare hands? Join us this Valentine’s weekend for a fun, hands-on class making sinfully decadent, sensually delightful fresh chocolate babka.

NOTE: This is NOT a couples event – anyone and everyone is welcome to come and make delicious babka with us!

Chocolate and roses, the quintessential romantic Valentine’s Day combo; for this special class, Alissa Kondogiannis is crafting an exquisitely festive babka: rose water-infused raspberry jam combined with a decadent dark chocolate filling ribboned throughout tender, warm braided brioche, delicately sprinkles with dried rose petals.

Babka is a sweet, twisted, yeast-dough bread with Eastern European roots. Typically served as a dessert and the perfect accompaniment to coffee, babka has transcended its humble roots and become a trendy staple in gourmet bakeries around the world. Classic babka is either chocolate or cinnamon-filled but can be made using any filling you can imagine, savoury or sweet.

In this class, participants will learn to make the yeasted dough essential to babka recipe, and then the shaping, folding and glazing techniques that give the babka its signature marbled swirls and gleaming finish. Working from a basic chocolate base, we will explore several ingredients to customize your perfect babka. There will be fresh-baked chocolate babka to share in class, and each participant goes home with their own whole unbaked babka to bake at home.
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$79 +HST

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Alissa Kondogiannis loved eating challahs and babkas her whole life, but it was only after travelling that she really got on the path of making her own breads from scratch. Her aim is to introduce everyone to the joys of making bread, and show that people don’t have to be intimidated by yeasted doughs. She has been teaching babka classes for a number of years in Thornhill, where she runs a small catering business, Barnstar Kitchen.
@barnstarkitchen

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VALENTINES'S COOKING CLASS: Chocolate-Raspberry-Rose Babka with Alissa Kondogiannis
SAT Feb 15, 12pm @ CSI, 192 Spadina Ave. # 501
$ 79.00
14 available
VALENTINES'S COOKING CLASS: Chocolate-Raspberry-Rose Babka with Alissa Kondogiannis
SAT Feb 15, 12pm @ CSI, 192 Spadina Ave. # 501
$ 79.00
16 available

Details

Date:
February 15
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cost:
$79.00
Event Category:

Organizer

The Depanneur
Phone
416-828-1990
Email
info@thedepanneur.ca
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Venue

CSI Spadina
192 Spadina Ave., Suite 501
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 Canada
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Phone
416-979-3939
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