Classes
SweetWares: ...bring baking home
July Classes
Independence Day Cookie Decorating Event - July 2nd
Scones - July 7th
Summer Pies with Melissa Carey-Ragland - July 10th
Chocolate Décor - July 14th
Cake 101 - July 17th
Pasta Making III with Jeff Emerson - July 18th
Get Personal With Rustic Fruit Desserts - July 31st
Kids in the Kitchen Series for Children Aged 8-12 Years Old
Bagels - July 21st
Shortbread Cookies - July 28th
Candy Making - August 4th
August Classes
Fun With Fondant - August 7th
Free Form Galettes - August 11th
Make a Pie With Julie Richardson - August 14th
Basic Pasta Making with Jeff Emerson - August 15th
Basic Cakes - August 18th
Introduction to Canning with Mary Kay Gehring - August 21st
Summer in a Jar with Mary Kay Gehring - August 22nd
Fondant Flowers - August 25th
September Classes
Back to School Cookie Decorating Event - September 10th
Private Parties
About classes at SweetWares
June Classes
PIZZA NIGHT with MATT & JULIE
Join Baker & Spice owners Matt Kappler & Julie Richardson for a delicious and fun evening learning how to craft the perfect pizza pie. Pizza dough, sauce, and an array of toppings will be available for you to make and bake your own pizza. Enjoy some for dinner tonight, and take the rest home for dinner tomorrow!
Wednesday, June 2nd from 6-8pm
$60, two hour class includes recipe & demonstration for pizza dough, salad, beverage & dessert, and your pizza pie
Instructor: Matt Kappler & Julie RIchardson
Class type: Hands On
ANGEL FOOD CAKE CLINIC
Versatile, fat free, and perfect for summer, angel food cake is a great partner for Oregon’s berries, peaches, plums & more. Learn how to whip your whites perfectly, choose the best pan for the job, and other quick & easy tricks to turn your simple cake into an elegant dessert.
Sunday, June 13th from 1-2pm
$35, one hour class includes angel food cake samples & recipe
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demo
FATHER’S DAY CUPCAKES for AGES 4-7
Make a mess in our kitchen! We supply everything you need to decorate 6 cupcakes. Make dad a gift he’s sure to love!
Saturday, June 19th from 1-2pm
$40, one hour class includes instruction & supplies to decorate your 6 cupcakes to take home.
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class type: Hands On
ROYAL ICING COOKIE DÉCOR for AGES 8-12
Learn some tricks and techniques at decorating sugar cookies with royal icing. Practice your new skills on 6 cookies, wrap them up, and present to Dad on his special day.
Saturday, June 19th from 3-4pm.
$40, this one hour class includes royal icing recipe, instruction, and supplies to decorate your 6 cookies to take home.
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class type: Hands On
July Classes
INDEPENDENCE DAY COOKIE DECORATING EVENT
Drop in to SweetWares on Friday, July 2nd and decorate a flag and a star cookie before heading to the beach for the holiday weekend. All Ages Welcome! All supplies provided.
Friday, July 2nd, from 1-3pm
$10 drop in fee
Instructor: Lori Enos
Class Type: Hands On
SCONES
Learn how to recreate the sacred Baker & Spice cranberry oat almond scone and other variations of this English tea time treat.
Wednesday, July 7th, from 9:30-11am, Ages 16+
$40, this one and a half hour class includes recipe and instruction for the cranberry oat almond scone, samples & beverages
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration
SUMMER PIES with Melissa Carey-Ragland
Melissa Carey-Ragland, Pastry chef at our neighborhood Alba Osteria, will guide you in making your own lattice-topped stone fruit & raspberry pie, then demonstrate a crumb-topped blueberry pie. The pie pastry & lattice topped pie you make are yours to take home and enjoy, and a light lunch will be served before sampling both pies.
Saturday, July 10th from 10am to 1pm, Ages 16 and above
$85, this three hour class includes recipes and instruction for pie pastry, crumb topping, raspberry stone fruit filling and blueberry filling, samples, lunch and beverages. The pie pastry & pie you make in class are yours to take home to bake & enjoy!
Instructor: Melissa Carey-Ragland
Class Type: Hands On Lattice Pie, Demonstration Crumb Topped Pie
Chocolate Décor
Get in touch with your artistic side and see how easy it can be to design your own chocolate transfer. Former Baker & Spice cake baker and Sugarhouse Owner, Erin Gougler Fale, will instruct students in how to create their own chocolate transfer, and then demonstrate a few fun ways to utilize your new skills.
Wednesday, July 14th from 10-11am for ages 16 and up
$40, this one hour class includes supplies and instruction for your chocolate transfer, and the transfer you make in class is yours to take home
Instructor: Erin Gougler Fale
Class Type: Hands On
CAKE 101
For those of you who have requested an in depth basic cake class, this is for you! Julie will demonstrate proper creaming technique for the best butter cake, show you how to whip up a batch of buttercream, and then guide you through masking, frosting, and simply, yet beautifully, decorating your cake.
Saturday, July 17th from 1-4pm
$65, this three hour class includes recipes and instruction for basic butter cake, basic buttercream, and the cake you frost & decorate is yours to take home.
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration of cake & buttercream & Hands On decorating
PASTA MAKING III with Jeff Emerson
Join us in welcoming our Hillsdale neighbor Jeff Emerson, from Alba & Caffe Autogrill, back to the SweetWares kitchen for some seasonal filled pastas. In this hands on class, you will learn how to make pea agnolotti and pansotti, a larger pasta stuffed with ricotta, parmesan & greens, whose name means “fat belly”. We’ll eat what Jeff makes in class, and you’ll take home the pasta you make in class for dinner later in the week! Antipasti, salad, bread, dessert & beverages are also included. No previous pasta class required. All equipment provided!
Sunday, July 18th from 4:30 to 7:30pm
$75, three hour class includes recipes & instruction for the above mentioned dishes, dinner & beverages; the pasta you make in class is yours to take home & enjoy!
Instructor: Jeff Emerson
Class type: Hands On
GET PERSONAL WITH RUSTIC FRUIT DESSERTS
Join Julie in celebration of her co-authored book showcasing the bounty of the summer season. This class features some lesser known summer treats that are sure to be instant favorites with your family: gingered peach and blackberry pandowdy, caramel peach grunt, and summer fruit trifle.
Saturday, July 31st from 1-3pm
$55, two hour class includes instruction & samples of all above mentioned desserts and beverages. Copies of Julie’s book will be available for sale, and Julie will be available after class to sign your copy—whether new or already well loved!
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration
Kids in the Kitchen Series for Children Aged 8-12 Years Old
BAGELS
Learn just how easy and FUN making your own bagels can be. We’ll make several varieties of bagels, and Julie will demonstrate a few different toppings. Then we’ll all sit down and enjoy our hard work with a bagel and schmear feast.
Wednesday, July 21st from 10am until Noon, ages 8-12
$50, this two hour class includes recipes and instructions for basic bagel & schmears, samples & beverages
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Hands On
SHORTBREAD COOKIES
Join us this week as we make a basic cookie dough, learn some easy variations & then spend some time getting decorating pointers from the pros at Baker & Spice.
Wednesday, July 28th from 10am until Noon, ages 8-12
$50, this two hour class includes recipes and instructions for shortbread cookie and royal icing, samples, beverages and the cookies you decorate in class
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Hands On
CANDY MAKING
Stay cool in our air conditioned kitchen! Today we’ll learn about the sweetest of the sweets---candies! Julie will demonstrate how to make Tootsie rolls, molded chocolates and lollipops.
Wednesday, August 4th from 10am until Noon, Ages 8-12
$50, this two hour class includes recipes and instructions for tootsie rolls, molded chocolates and lollipops, samples, beverages and the candies you make in class
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration
FUN with FONDANT
Former Baker & Spice cake whiz and Sugarhouse Cakes owner, Erin Gougler Fale, will guide you through rolling, covering, and finishing your 6” cake with fondant. She will also show you how to color fondant and how to use fondant cutters to make simple fondant flowers. Equipment & supplies used in class will be provided, as well as a 6” frosted cake for you to cover with fondant and take home to show off. Additional supplies & equipment for future fondant projects will be available for purchase at a 10% discount.
Saturday, August 7th from 9:30-11:30 am
$75, two hour class includes instruction and ALL supplies necessary to cover & decorate your cake—which is yours to take home!
Instructor: Erin Gougler Fale
Class Type: Hands On
FREE FORM GALETTES
Learn how you can take a simple dough, add nearly any fillings that suit your fancy and create an infinite variety of sweet or savory galettes—perfect for your neighborhood picnic or company potluck.
Wednesday, August 11th, from 10am until Noon, Ages 16 and up
$65, this two hour class includes recipes and instruction for basic galette dough, savory filling and sweet filling, light lunch and beverages
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration/ light hands on
MAKE A PIE with JULIE RICHARDSON
Learn how to make the perfect summer pie. Julie will guide students through making the flakiest, all-butter pie pastry, then provide tips for rolling, filling and baking not only a delicious but beautiful pie. Each participant gets to take home one pie pastry and the berry or peach pie they make in class to bake at home!
Saturday, August 14th from 2-4pm
$75, two hour class includes instruction and recipes for pie pastry, berry and peach pie filling, the pie pastry you make in class, and your hand-made take-and-bake pie.
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class type: Hands On
BASIC PASTA MAKING with Jeff Emerson
Jeff Emerson, Hillsdale neighbor from Alba & Caffe Autogrill will demystify the pasta making process, guiding students as they make tajarin with a fresh tomato sauce & trofie with pesto. Tajarin is a thin egg noodle, and trofie is an eggless noodle rolled by hand into little squiggly shapes. Buon Appetito!
Sunday, August 15th from 4:30 to 7:30pm
$75, three hour class includes instruction and recipes for above mentioned dishes, antipasti, salad, pasta, bread & beverages. The pasta you make in class is yours to take home & enjoy!
Instructor: Jeff Emerson
Class Type: Hands On
BASIC CAKES
Just the basics: a demonstration of how to make a great butter cake & a simple frosting really is “the icing on the cake”! Julie will demonstrate how to make a butter cake, devil’s food cake, and simple vanilla buttercream, and some quick and simple frosting techniques. If you are looking for more in depth cake instruction or hands on frosting & decorating, please see our CAKES 101 class.
Wednesday, August 18th, from 9:30-11:30 am, ages 16 and up
$50, two hour class includes recipes & instruction for butter cake, devil’s food cake and vanilla buttercream, samples & beverages
Instructor: Julie Richardson
Class Type: Demonstration
INTRODUCTION TO CANNING with Mary Kay Gehring
We are thrilled to welcome back trained chef & former owner of Viande, Mary Kay Gehring to SweetWares. Mary Kay will demonstrate three canning methods: raw pack, water bath & pressure canning, with three delicious recipes: Spicy Pickles, Ginger Zucchini Marmalade and Basil Tomato Sauce. Mary Kay will also be offering a fruit focused canning class the following day, Sunday, August 22nd. No prerequisite is required for either class.
Saturday, August 21st from 10am to 1pm
$75, three hour class includes instruction and recipes for above mentioned dishes, samples, lunch & beverages
Instructor: Mary Kay Gehring
Class Type: Demo
SUMMER IN A JAR with Mary Kay Gehring
Mary Kay joins us again to help us with our abundance of fruit! She will demonstrate a plum chutney, a mixed fruit preserve, and a blueberry pancake sauce. Exact fruit subject to change depending on what is most abundant at the time of the class. Mary Kay will demonstrate the water bath canning method, and provide some food safety guidelines for your canning adventures.
Sunday, August 22nd from 10am to 1pm
$75, three hour class includes instruction and recipes for above mentioned dishes, samples, lunch & beverages
Instructor: Mary Kay Gehring
Class Type: Demo
FONDANT FLOWERS
This introductory lesson in fondant will cover how to color fondant, and how to cut and shape beautiful flowers. Fondant flowers are a striking accent on any special occasion cake or cupcakes. Learn how easy they can be….
NOTE: if you’re looking for a more in depth class regarding fondant as a cake covering, please see our FUN WITH FONDANT class.
Wednesday, August 25th, from 10-11am, ages 16 and up
$40, one hour class includes instruction and ALL supplies for making fondant flowers in class, beverages, and the flowers you make in class
Instructor: Erin Fale
Class Type: Hands On
SEPTEMBER
BACK TO SCHOOL COOKIE DECORATING EVENT
Celebrate the first few days back in school with a trip in to SweetWares to decorate 2 shortbread cookies. All Ages Welcome! All supplies provided.
Friday, September 10th from 3-5pm
$10 Drop In Fee
Instructor: Lori Enos
Class Type: Hands On
Private Parties
Gather a group of your 10 favorite people for one of our themed sessions.Birthday Cookies $250
Make a mess in our kitchen! Come decorate cookies and then celebrate with a Baker and Spice birthday cake. Best for ages 5 and up.
Birthday Cakes $300
Come decorate personal 4 inch cakes and then celebrate with an 8 inch Baker & Spice birthday cake. (Each guest brings their personal cake home as a favor). Best for ages 8 and up.
Pie Night $350
Gather a good group of friends and learn how to make really great pie. Then eat it! Best for teens and adults.
Pizza Pie $350
Learn to make and toss a pie like nobody's business. Then enjoy the results. All ages welcome. Pizza, salad and beverages served.
Each 2-3 hour party includes instruction, supplies and basic beverages (soft drinks, coffee/teas). Additional food and beverages can be supplied for an additional fee upon request in advance.
About classes at SweetWares:
Do I receive a discount at the store?
As a thank you, each student will receive a 10% savings on
purchases made the day of class.
What is your cancellation policy?
Cancellations up to 48 hours in advance of the class will
receive a full refund or transfer to another class of equal value. To
cancel a class, please email SweetWares at sweetwares@comcast.net. We
regret that we will be unable to give a refund or credit to
cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to the class.
What should I wear?
We ask that you wear comfortable, casual clothing and
closed-toed/rubber soled shoes.
How many students are in each class?
We want to make the classes comfortable and fun therefore we
have limited the class size to 10 students for demos and 8 students for
hands-on classes, with a minimum of 5. We reserve the right to cancel a
class that falls below our minimum requirement. We will issue you a
refund if a class is cancelled.
Do I need to bring an apron and utensils?
You don't need to think about anything excepting enjoying the
class; SweetWares will provide you with all the supplies you need to
participate.
