Cooking Class: Choux Pastries for Beginners
Explore the art of French pastries in this immersive cooking class with Chef Agnes.
Put on your pastry chef hat and get ready to recreate iconic French delicacies with master Chef Agnes. The session begins with a buttery pâte choux, a classic French pastry dough that serves as the base for delicious treats like éclairs and cream puffs. Once you've perfected the dough's consistency, you'll pipe it into elegant shapes to create three iconic French desserts. First up is the Paris-Brest, a ring-shaped pastry filled with tasty praline crème mousseline, followed by éclairs filled with silky pastry cream and finally, a show-stopping French pastry tower (croquembouche) stacked and bound together with caramel.
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Pâte Choux
With butter, water, milk, sugar, pastry cream, chocolate ganache and caramel
Paris-Brest (Ring-Shaped Choux Pastry)
With rich praline crème mousseline filling
Éclairs
With crème pâtissière filling and chocolate glaze
Croquembouche (French Pastry Tower)
With individual profiteroles, stacked and bound together with caramel
Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.
- Minimum Guests 2
- Maximum Guests 10
- Event Duration 2.5 hours
- Activity Level
Activity Level
- LabelsGroup, Adult, French, Baking, Pastry, Valentine's, Mother's Day
Reviews Guests Left For This Experience
Talia
16 Jun 2025
Chef Agnes brought all of the ingredients we needed, and she was willing to make it work even if we didn’t have all of the ideal equipment (she mentioned that a hand mixer could be used if we didn’t have a stand mixer). She was knowledgeable, friendly, funny, and gave helpful feedback. She paced the class really well to make eclairs and cream puffs in two hours, including making the craquelin, choux pastry, pastry cream, and chocolate ganache. We had a blast! You should budget time after the class to finish filling/dipping the remaining pastries and to clean up.
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Carol
15 Mar 2025
She was amazing! Best night ever!
Lea
06 Mar 2025
Chef Agnes was so lovely to learn from! She modeled everything very careful and scaffolded learning throughout. She was very personable and fun to work with. Would highly recommend her class!
Event location: Boston
Chef travels to your location
Chef Agnes brings a wealth of experience as a former head chef and owner of a thriving cake and pastry business in São Paulo. Her expertise spans crafting exquisite pastries, creating show-stopping cakes and teaching hands-on baking techniques. With a deep passion for the art of baking and a talent for sharing her knowledge, Chef Agnes’s culinary skills and dedication to the sweet side of cooking truly stand out.
