Want to Expand Your Culinary Skills? Consider Our Cooking Classes!

[RossDeb2]

I often hear women talk at the shows I do abot the classes they have taken at the local college. I would like to start offering these to increase my business over the summer.

I would like to offer this for both kids and adults. I would charge enough for each prepaid class to cover the price of ingredients and take home products for each of them. I would make sure I had enough people attending so that I could put it through as a show.

For kids:

Making a basic roux - teach them how to make gravy, cheese sauce, and basic cream puff

silicone cupcake pan - pancakes, baking, ice cream molds

Cooking 101

Adults:

BBQ Basics

Appealing Appetizers

Power Cooking, cooking once and making two other meals from it

Just brainstorming right now and would appreciate any help you all could offer. Has anyone had any success with this? What type of outlines did you follow? How to market it?

Thanks

 

[Karen Hodge]

Click on Files then put power in the Search space. There are tons of threads about Power Cooking with recipes etc.

 

[dwyerkim]

I would like to do a "cake decorating for the rest of us" class... show how simple it can be to make pretty cakes without doing the 4 weeks of Wilton classes.

I would love suggestions from people who have done cooking classes on how they market them--I have lots of ideas for kids and adults but I'm not sure how to get students.

 

[tlennhoff]

Advertise in the local/town newspapers as well as post flyers at supermarkets/stores/religious organizations. And also contact all past hosts and customers that are in your local area.

 

[speedychef]

For the cake class...I put a small batter bowl on top of the new torte pans and frosted it yellow to make a sombrero! IT was AWESOME! (If I do say so!) I so wish I had pics...I DO, however, have pics of the boob cakes, though I'm not sure if they're appropriate here...