French Language & French Pastry/Bakery Courses in France
 

The convivial atmosphere in the kitchen puts everyone at ease for learning and having a great time. A hands-on experience with personal attention and a maximum of 10 per class. High quality teaching by your chef. Complete beginners through to gourmet chefs feel at home as dishes from easy-to-prepare one-minute dishes to that special gourmet meal are taught.










 


Dare to try pastry cooking & bread-making, enjoy and succeed in doing them : cake-making & decoration, pastry bases and creams for tarts and mini-tarts, croissants, puff pastry for starters & desserts and the wonders of icing and sugar decoration. Special, whole & grain breads.

An enthusiastic, talented teacher, Chef Alain, with his artistic flair and high technical qualifications, teaches you in a relaxed setting and leads you on a creative adventure that will teach you the basics, improve on them, and encourage you to use your imagination in the creation of an sugar sculpture.

Chef Alain since gaining his title as Best Pastry Chef of the Year has taught for internationally-reknowned culinary schools as a pastry chef.

  • 5 mornings of French Language group classes - 6 max per group
     

  • 2 afternoon French Pastry classes in French with a discreet translation for non French speakers where you can make cakes, pastries, desserts and decoration
     

  • Preparations: pastry dough, lining a tart mould, lining fancy cakes, cutting dough, "detrempe" for puffed pastry, buttering, turning cutting & baking puffed pastry
     

  • Recipes: Sweet dough, crushed dough, puffed pastry, chocolate cream, frangipane cream, pastry cream
     

  • Dishes: Fruit tarts & mini tarts, fancy cakes, a variety of cookies, pithiviers, vol au vent, pear chaussons, millefeuille

  • 2 afternoon French Bakery classes:
     

  • Preparations: Dough kneading, fermentation control, bread-baking
     

  • Recipes: Croissant dough, special breads, whole grain, whole-meal breads

  • Dishes: Croissants, pains au chocolat, sultana rolls, different kinds of bread

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for more information about the courses we offer

Tel.: [33](0)4 77 71 53 00     Fax: [33](0)4 77 70 80 01
Ecole des Trois Ponts, Château de Matel, 42300 Roanne, France

 




Comments :

I just wanted... to tell you how much I enjoyed my stay at your home: Château Matel. I really do feel like I was staying at a truly French home and not a vacation spot. I loved the French country cooking... What surprised me was the amount and quality of side trips you included for us. I felt like I had a personal tour guide. Lin, Louisiana

We had such a wonderful time at your Chateau. My husband and I were so relaxed. He did not want to leave. Great food! Great wine! Great company! Tess, USA

What a hoot!!! You obviously know your stuff when it comes to food. Really enjoyed the class. L.B.

This was the best class I've ever taken! Lin

You should be very proud of what you offer; this is an outstanding opportunity for people to meet and learn French in a most convivial situation. Christine

What a fun, delicious week. A few secrets from the chef, but more details and refined methods were the highlights of the class. Great class size. A lovely location and wonderful French country feel. Mary

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