Holiday news from the Baking Coach
A gingerbread house is decorated at a workshop taught by baking expert Lisa Basini at the Island Trees Public Library. (Dec. 1, 2009) Credit: Joel Cairo
When we first met the Baking Coach, Lisa Basini was an itinerant confectionary educator, coming to your home (or dispatching one of her under-chefs to do so) to give private baking lessons.
Basini still makes house calls, but now she also gives classes in her new facility in Huntington. Every Saturday morning, there’s a children's program from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. ($25, for children, ages 5 to 11) and an adult program from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($55). Upcoming classes include decorating with buttercream, decorating with fondant, holiday cookies, snowman cupcakes, homemade pretzels. See the full schedule here.
On Saturday, Dec. 10, Basini is throwing a children's’ gingerbread house extravaganza. She’ll provide the building materials — cookies, royal icing, candy — and from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., families can build their own edible houses. Every child will receive a paper chef hat and apron, plus extra cookies and coloring pages. Cookies and milk will be served and, at the end, every family takes home their house in a bakery box.
The cost is $35 per family, of which $5 will be donated to the Carol M. Baldwin Cancer Research Fund.
The Baking Coach is at 320 Broadway, Huntington, 631-543-8608.
