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Ever wanted to learn how to make your own croissants from scratch? Well now you can at this Parisian institution, taught at the Ritz Hotel in Paris!
Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School
The four hour pastry cooking class at the Ritz Escoffier cooking school in Paris takes place in their hotel kitchen, in a dedicated section for the cooking school. Be prepared to stand for 4 hours!
You get to experience how the best French pastry chefs perfect their skills and make croissants and pain au chocolate every morning. From scratch it takes a long time to create and only minutes to devour. The beauty of this cooking course is that everything that needs to be prepared overnight is already done, so you can learn each step, but then the prep is already done so you can move onto the next steps quickly and easily.
The Ritz Escoffier cooking school teaches you how to turn yeast, flour, butter (lots), sugar (also lots) into crispy flaky croissants. You can be sneaky and add extra chocolate to the mix as well to make yours unique.
Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – Video Highlights
Experience the school with a video review, clips with techniques from the teachers, see below:
Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – Pictures
At the end of the course, you are presented a certificate and each student gets their own box of pastries to take home. The Ritz Escoffier cooking school courses are in French but there is a translator on staff if you need help. The classes are also very small maximum about 8 people so its always intimate enough to get all the help you need to learn and have fun along the way!
Ritz Escoffier apron and cooking instructions manual. You can keep both at the end of the course as souvenirs.
The before photo of a pain au chocolate. You learn each step by step on how each is made just note you will never now know exactly how much butter actually goes into these pastries. News flash – its a lot!
Tools to create a pain au chocolat. Place chocolate, then fold, and place next chocolate strip. You can get creative and add extra chocolate as you wish or in the future other fillings such as strawberry or matcha to create some custom creations.
Place finished product on the baking tray. Everything is pre portioned to save time and keep things moving along the way. Clean and organized.
Next step to create the pastry from scratch. All the ingredients laid out: flour, milk, butter, sugar, and yeast.
Butter ready to be squashed and flattened. The butter goes into the mix, a huge amount required for any pastry.
Hand made croissants Ritz Paris style before being baked. They are placed in the oven to be cooked to crispy perfection.
The finished product! Smells so good you just want to reach out and eat one, which I did without anyone looking.
The finished pain au chocolate are flaky and crispy
Tasting our creations together as a class at the end of the course.
Take home box being created by the sous chef at the Ritz Escoffier cooking school. You can take home as many pastries as you can fit inside your box, so perfect to share with friends or family when you are back home or to give as gifts.
Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – The details
Address: 15 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 43 16 30 30
Website: Ritz Escoffier