This is the second of three courses for Spring 2023. Book all three to receive two free tickets for our popular Wine & Cheese evenings!  Worth £58.

A tour of celebration breads, focussing mainly on Easter.  Amaze your family and friends this year with Easter breads from Europe and beyond!   For this session, we recommend that you have recent experience of breadmaking, or that you have attended our Beginners class.

Our bakery courses share simple objectives:

-          Enhance your understanding of ingredients and processes

-          Expose you to the great traditions of breadmaking

-          Give you confidence to be creative and bold in your kitchen

-           Opportunities to ask questions . . . and receive answers!

The structure of the day:

-          Coffee, introductions and housekeeping information

-          Demystifying flours, yeasts and salts

-          Preparing doughs and other ingredients for

Tsoureki                     Easter bread              Greece / Cyprus                               

Hot Cross Buns           Good Friday               England                                    

Ciambella Mandorlata   Easter bread              Italy                                                                               

Lagana                      Lenten fasting bread   Greece / Cyprus                                

Challah                      Pesach                      Israel                                         

Kulich                       Easter Fruit Loaf             Russia

-          Demonstration of shaping and glazing techniques

-          Lunch- suitable for vegetarians and vegans (approximately 12am)

-          Shape your doughs and prepare them for the oven

-          Question Time, with time to review recipes and discuss books

-          Bake your breads!      (approximately 3.30pm)

Aprons are available, but if you want to bring your own, please do.  Feel free to take notes and/or photographs during the day.  Our bakery is fully wheelchair-accessible.   

Book your place here.

Terms & Conditions for Events at Gerry’s

1.       We are unable to offer places to anyone under the age of 18.

2.       You are obliged to notify us of any illness or communicable disease.  If you have diarrhoea or vomiting on the day of the course, you will not be allowed entry. 

3.       Cancellations will be accepted up to one calendar month before the date of a course.  Refunds are conditional on the place(s) being filled by someone else. 

4.       In the unlikely event of our bakery not being available due to major damage to the building, a full refund will be given.