Five-Day Teen Camp: Baking and Pastry

A five-day mini camp for kids age 12 to 16 to experience, hands-on, cooking simple yet sophisticated menus that they can recreate at home. They will learn the basics of knife skills, menu planning, and organizing prep work.

Day One-Quick Breads:

• Individual lemon meringue pies with homemade pie dough
• Buttermilk biscuits
• Blueberry muffins with streusel topping
  

Day Two-French Pastry Techniques:

• Cream puffs with pastry cream and chocolate ganache glaze
• Crème brûlée
  

Note: Yeast doughs will be made on this day in preparation for day 3

Day Three-Yeast Dough and Fritters:

• Berry bombs (jam-filled raised donuts with strawberry glaze)
• Apple fritters
• Homemade everything bagels
  

Day Four-Cakes and Cookies:

• Jelly roll cake with fresh fruit and cream
• Individual devil's food cake
• Lemon macarons with white chocolate-lemon ganache
  

Day Five-Frosting, Filling, Cake Assembly and Decorating:

• Chocolate buttercream
• Cookies 'n' cream frosting
• Assemble, fill, frost and decorate devil's food cake