Pastry workshop

Artisan cookies, from mixing techniques to decoration: a hands-on workshop with Francesca Donati, professional pastry chef and chocolatier and owner of ChocoPastry ArtLab, inside the Sabato Creativo. You learn to make cookies the way they do in a pastry shop: crumbly, good-looking, to give away or to keep in a jar, as long as they last. You find out how texture and result change depending on the dough, the ingredients and the handling, then you get to work: creamed shortcrust dough piped with a pastry bag, ovis mollis that melts in your mouth, double-flavor cookies and filled ones. To finish, you decorate them with royal icing and a glossy chocolate glaze. No experience needed: just the urge to get your hands in the dough. Ingredients and equipment are included, and you take home your cookies and Francesca's recipe book. You work from 3.30 pm to 7 pm. The workshop runs with at least 5 people signed up: we confirm it on Friday, October 23 at 1 pm. If it doesn't run, we let you know and give back what you paid.