If Pastry Is Your Passion™

Tie on your aprons for hands-on pastry and dessert classes on the Amalfi Coast with extraordinary Chefs!!!  Join Chef Raffaele, Fortunata and Philomena in the kitchen and learn how to make traditional Neapolitan and Amalfi Coast pastries and desserts that will impress.  You will learn about ingredients and methods for prepping, mixing, blending and baking Pan Di Spagna, Italian sponge cake, crema pasticciera, pastry cream, pasta frolla, shortcrust pastry, and cannoli, zeppole, Delizia al limone, torte Caprese, biscotti, Baba alla Crema and tiramisu– coffee, chocolate, peach and berry – to name a few.  Learn about Old World pastries and desserts including delicious recipes that were once created by the monks and nuns of the local monasteries!

Positano Pastry and Dessert Making Classes

Traditional Pastries and Desserts Of the Amalfi Coast

Your pastry and dessert making classes inspire using the highest quality ingredients such as chocolate, Sicilian almonds, Positano lemons, cinnamon, spring strawberries, summer peaches and apricots; autumn figs and chestnuts.  Follow the chefs and learn to make torta Caprese, the flourless chocolate almond cake, Baba, pastiera scented with orange zest and zeppole filled with yellow cooked cream.  Melanzane al cioccolato, chocolate eggplant – a delicacy made with thinly sliced eggplant layered between chocolate and  candied orange originating in the monastery of Tramonti.  It’s story read, during the Middle Ages, the monks dipped their eggplant in a liqueur mixed with herbs, spices and sugar. When chocolate was brought to Europe from the New World in the 16th century, the locals used chocolate.

This cooking class is an in-depth hands-on experience.  Included is a Cooking Vacations’s Welcome Bag with Chef’s apron and recipe booklet.