Workshops — Boulangerie + Pâtisserie

Macaron Baking Class with a Chef Pâtissier

The most Parisian of pastries, and the most unforgiving. Hence the chef.

The experience

Today is really about precision – weighed to the gram, folded to the stroke, and then, finally, about pleasure.

The macaron has a reputation for being difficult, and the reputation is deserved. In a professional pastry kitchen a few steps from the Champs-Élysées, the patient, friendly chefs at Studio Pâtisserie takes you through it in order: the meringue, whipped to exactly the right point; the macaronage, that gentle fold which decides whether your batter flows like lava or sits there sulking; the piping; and the bake itself, where a smooth shell and a proper little “foot” are the reward for getting everything before it right.

Then the fun part – ganaches and fillings in flavours both classic and rather less so. Things will go wrong somewhere along the way; they always do, and that is rather the point. Your chef is there to explain why, and how not to do it next time. You leave with a box of your own macarons and a fair amount of patience, newly acquired.

We fell in love with the baking workshops at Studio Pâtisserie after an afternoon spent making éclairs with our family, and couldn’t wait to share them with you. We love that their little locations evoke Parisian charm, tucked away from the crowds, and that the chefs have an illustrious background, having studied at Le Cordon Bleu.

The studio

A professional pastry kitchen housed in a little out-of-the-way alcove that evokes Parisian charm, a few minutes’ walk from the Champs-Élysées.

The bake

Macaron shells and fillings.

To take home

A box of your own macarons.

The chef

A patient, friendly professional pâtissier, trained at Le Cordon Bleu, with experience in notable French kitchens.

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Hungry to learn?

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