Festive baking – stollen and Christmas treats

Few can resist the delicious smells of festive baking: ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. This workshop is an introduction to baking for the festive season – using a range of techniques to create traditional treats and bakes with a seasonal twist. You’ll also be ahead of the game at this busy time of year too.

We’ll make:

• Christmas Stollen: you’ll bake a classic, festive stollen full of dried fruit, marzipan, and spices. We’ll take a step-by-step approach learning skills and techniques you can use when baking at home.
• Festive spiced shortbread: using traditional ingredients along with festive spices.
• Pistachio biscotti: traditional Italian biscuits, adding a different note to the festive season with the bright flavour and colour of pistachios.

The workshop is hands-on, and we’ll make everything from scratch. You’ll learn some basic recipes that you can then adapt at home to create different options. The course is suitable for beginners and people with some experience interested in trying out something new.

We’ll look at the ingredients, techniques and how to feel confident when baking. You’ll leave inspired and ready to continue baking at home.

Our workshops are fun and informal, our tutors will support you in preparing the recipes, and we’ll chat and answer questions as we go.

Please bring 3 boxes to take home your creations (1 large box for the stollen).

We’ll be using wheat flour, eggs, and dairy – this workshop is not suitable for vegans or anyone with a dairy or gluten allergy.

This workshop will be led by Jackie Vural. Jackie is an experienced cook of many cuisines with a particular passion for bread making. Jackie is a regular Lang Spoon Community Kitchen tutor and has worked with Greener Kirkcaldy for many years. She loves sharing her skills.

The Lang Spoon Comunity Kitchen

The Lang Spoon Community Kitchen is part of Greener Kirkcaldy’s community building. We’re Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy, close to the High Street and thetrain and bus station. Find out how to get here.

Our purpose built training kitchen has eight workstations, purpose-built to replicate the ease and comfort of of cooking at home.

Our cookery school is complemented by a productive and climate-friendly garden, where we run volunteer training sessions and grow seasonal herbs, fruit and vegetables to use in our classes and events. We also have a larger community training garden and orchard in Dysart.

We host a wide range of events, courses and workshops on all aspects of food and drink. Both our Community Training Kitchen and Production Kitchen are available for hire too.

Booking Information

Full price: £52

Friends / couples*: £89

Greener Kirkcaldy members/volunteers: £47

Concessions**: £42

*Two people enjoy the cooking experience together using the same ingredients.

** Greener Kirkcaldy is committed to accessibility and we offer a concession rate to people in receipt of the following benefits: Students (full time), Senior Citizens (65+), eligible benefits (Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income based Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit and Universal Credit).

We also offer a free basic community cooking skills and household budgeting programme to help people on a low income cook healthy and affordable meals: Smart Cooking

Our booking form includes a series of optional anonymous questions. These help us learn more about the people we reach through our events. Any information you choose to share about your background is managed separately to information that you give us to process your booking (for example, your name).

If you have any problems booking or any questions, please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

Refund policy – We can refund your order up until 7 days before the event. If you cancel your order less than 7 days before the event we will be unable to provide a refund.

Accessibility

There are accessible parking bays available outside 8 East Fergus Place. There is a ramp into the building and level access throughout. There is also an accessible toilet. Our kitchen has an adjustable cooking station. This is suitable for those in wheelchairs or who need to sit while cooking.

If you have any other accessibility questions or would like the resources at the event to be in large print please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

About our events

Our paid courses and workshops are run as a social enterprise. By taking part, you are helping to make a difference in our community.

Your support helps us continue to work with beginner cooks; people in training and on placement young people and support people in food insecurity access food in a dignified way.

Greener Kirkcaldy Gift Card

You can buy a Greener Kirkcaldy gift card online. You can use them to purchase tickets for any of our social enterprise workshops. You can use them more than once so if you do not spend the full amount in one go you can spend the rest at a later date.

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