LONDON Baking WorkshoP with ADRIANN RAMIREZ, ALLEGRA D’AGOSTINI, AND Elizabeth Ho

October 13, 2024

This October 13th, Adriann Ramirez (head baker of Fink’s Salt and Sweet), Elizabeth Ho (the creative force behind Edmonton-based microbakery Birdhouse Bakeshop), and I are excited to be hosting a workshop in London, England!

This workshop will be focused on baking: in a small group, we will lead you through demonstrations of making and decorating layer cakes, cream-filled milk bread doughnuts and spiced buns, and fruit galettes. Each demonstration will be followed by hands-on practice and tips for troubleshooting and improvising so that you’ll leave feeling confident achieving these projects at home. The workshop is open to a maximum of 10 participants, allowing for plenty of time for one-on-one instruction, questions, and connecting with other likeminded individuals in a warm studio setting. Of course, we will enjoy all of these delicious treats during the workshop and everyone will leave with their own layer cake, galette, buns, and donuts.

We are really looking forward to sharing our knowledge gained over years of baking in professional kitchens, bakeries, and at home, and getting creative together x

During this 6-hour workshop, we will be demonstrating and practicing:

Baking, building, and decorating layer cakes, buttercream, and cake fillings
Making pastry cream-filled milk bread donuts
Making milk bread sticky buns and rolls
Making puff pastry and shaping fruit galettes

Details

When: October 13, 2024, from 10am-4pm

Where: Hackney Central, London, UK

Price: £125 per person

What is included: Snacks throughout the day and a 6” layer cake, galette, buns, and donuts to take home. All equipment and ingredients will be provided, just bring yourself!

Who we are:

Adriann Ramirez: Adriann, also known as @gay.nigella on Instagram, is a Mexican American multi-disciplinary artist and the Head Pastry Chef of Fink’s Salt and Sweet bakery based in North London. Adriann’s creative and food work is inspired by the seasons, the interplay of their Mexican and American background and queering spaces of life usually occupied by overly masculine energy. Adriann is interested in hyper seasonality and working closely with suppliers to create a constantly changing menu in reaction to what is on offer and at its most flavourful and is obsessed with playing the balance of high and low in food culture. Adriann’s favourite dessert is a filled-choux bun.

Allegra D’Agostini: Allegra is a Canadian cook, photographer, and food stylist. She spent years working in world-class kitchens in Canada, Greece, and the UK, learning from some of the most skilled chefs in the industry, before pivoting to food media where she currently channels her love of food towards creating visuals for cookbooks and advertising projects, She is inspired by the ability of cooking and creativity to bring people together and her favourite dessert is anything with dark chocolate and peanut butter. For more information about Allegra, visit the about page here

Elizabeth Ho: Elizabeth is a baker and owner of Birdhouse Bakeshop. Her work is rooted in simplicity, seasonality, and feelings of nostalgia, and her recipes, photography, and writing have been featured by Cherry Bombe, Food52, Camille Styles, and elsewhere. In her home kitchen, Liz spends her days creating inventive cakes and an ever changing menu of pastries inspired by her Chinese Malaysian heritage in Edmonton, Canada. Her debut cookbook DEAR BAKER is forthcoming with Penguin Random House. Liz’s favourite desserts are mochi, tiramisu, and carrot cake. To learn more about Liz, head here

For more information and to reserve a spot: please email allegradagostini18@gmail.com