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Shermay's Cooking School - May 2010 Schedule
FRI SAT SUN
Apr 30
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Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Sat)
12.30pm to 8.30pm (Sun)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm


Check back for class details!
3.00pm-6.00pm
(3hrs with an interval)

Guest Chef Tim Ross-Watson
Demo + Food Tasting

Non-Members: S$99 nett*
Members: S$89.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

BRITISH PUB FOOD
(Repeat - Back by Popular Demand!)

Difficulty Rating: 2/5
(No or little cooking background required)

1) Shepherd's Pie
Minced lamb in a rich red wine sauce baked with cheesy mash potatoes

2) Welsh Rarebit
A savoury sauce made from béchamel, cheese, ale, Worcestershire sauce and mustard spread and gratinated on toast

3) Fish and Chips
Old-fashioned beer batter recipe, with a twist

4) Steamed Raisin Pudding with Custard
Traditional raisin sponge dessert served with homemade custard sauce

Bonus Recipe (for you to try-at-home!):

5) Traditional Prawn Cocktail
Homemade quick and light mayonnaise-base dressing

6) Bread and Butter Pudding
Old-school style, a reliable simple recipe

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm-8.30pm


3.00pm-6.00pm
(3hrs with an interval)

Guest Chef Audrey Tan,
Head Chef & Chef-Owner Freshly Baked
Demo + Recipe Pack + A Substantial Box of Freshly Baked Treats to Take Home

Non-Members: S$129 nett*
Members: S$116.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

COOKIES: BASIC RECIPES & TECHNIQUES
(New Recipes!)

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little baking background required)

1) Triple Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Technique: Drop Cookie Method)

Not just chocolate cookie or double-chocolate cookie. We TRIPLED it - perfect for chocoholics!

2) Pistachio Butter Sable
(Technique: Rolled Cookie Method)

Nutty, crumbly and buttery. This easy-to-make cookie recipe is just heavenly for afternoon tea

3) Lemon Sugar Dough Cookie
(Technique: Cut-Out Method)

Get your favorite cookie cutters, shape and decorate these citrus-flavoured classic cookie treats

4) Cranberry and Orange Shortbread with Drizzled Frosting
(Technique: Cut-Out method)

A little twist to this traditional Scottish cookie with wine-red cranberries

5) Spritz Cookies with Raspberry Jam
(Technique: Piping Method)

A tender yet crispy Scandinavia cookie with raspberry confiture

Bonus Recipe (for you to try-at-home!):

6) White Chocolate Chip and Almond Cookies
(Technique: Drop Cookie Method)

Useful variation of the basic chocolate chip cookie above

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Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Sat)
12.30pm to 8.30pm (Sun)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm


3.00pm-6.30pm
(3hrs 30mins with an interval)

Guest Chef Joycelyn Shu
Demo + Food Tasting + Handcrafted Treats to take home + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Bonus Sections with Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides, Essential Recipes & Basics

Non-Members: S$119 nett*
Members: S$107.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

FABULOUS PARTY CAKES
(FULL; Waitlist Only)
(New Recipes!)

Difficulty Rating: 2/5
(No or little baking background required)

1) Peanut Butter
Sandcastle Bundt

A scrumptious and stunning cake peanut butter-lovers will absolutely swoon for. Replete with seashells and other fun-in-the-sun accents moulded from:

  • Peanut Butter Putty
    An edible "clay" you can shape and manipulate the same way you would handle fondant/marzipan

    2) Lemon Honey Beehive Cake
    Big and beautiful, fragrant and moist, this honeyed number will set your next party abuzz!

    3) Very Berry + Very Chocolatey Shortcake Baskets
    Chocolate shortcake baskets (using Valrhona Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate) holding a bounty of ripe, juicy macerated berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and/or blueberries can all work here) are as spectacular to look at as they are delectable

    4) Miniature Tiered Cakes
    Learn how to create a fabulous collection of decorated miniature tiered cakes based on Perfect Yellow Layer Cake (see recipe in Bonus Section II). Designs and techniques demonstrated will include a comprehensive selection (depending on time) from the material covered in Bonus Section I

    Bonus Section I - Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides:

    Essential Guide to Core Decorating Techniques for Miniature Tiered Cakes

    Understanding a few essential techniques is key to limitless design possibilities:

    i. Tinting Fondant/Marzipan

    ii. Covering a cake with Fondant/Marzipan

    iii. Handmade Fondant/Marzipan Decorations
    Step-by-step instructions for modelling wonderfully detailed decorations, including:
      - The Perfect Rose
      - Beautiful Bees
      - Grosgrain Bows & Ribbons

    iv. Royal Icing Piped Flowers
    Using a petal tip and flower nail to create 3-D royal icing flowers, including:
      - Rose
      - Chrysanthemum
      - Carnation
      - Daisy
      - Poppy
      - Sunflower
      - Simple drop blossoms

    v. Royal Icing Piped Designs
    For piping directly on the fondant-covered cake, including:
      - Dots, lines and borders
      - Vines and Leaves
      - Lavender fields
      - Tea roses

    vi. Monogramming
    Customise a cake with this easy yet effective technique

    Bonus Section II - Essential Recipes & Basics:

    5) Perfect Yellow Layer Cake
    This "little black dress" of cakes is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for good reason. Tender, delicious, scented with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla bean, it can form the foundation for any number of decorated cakes you care to dream up! A recipe you'll turn to time and again

    6) Meringue Powder Royal Icing
    A cake decorating essential; learn how to distinguish between stiff, soft peak and runny consistencies and the different decorating functions they serve

  • Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm to 8.30pm


    3.00pm-6.30pm
    (3hrs 30mins with an interval)

    Guest Chef Joycelyn Shu
    Demo + Food Tasting + Handcrafted Treats to take home + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Bonus Sections with Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides, Essential Recipes & Basics

    Non-Members: S$119 nett*
    Members: S$107.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    FABULOUS PARTY CAKES
    (FULL; Waitlist Only)
    (New Recipes!)

    Difficulty Rating: 2/5
    (No or little baking background required)

    1) Peanut Butter
    Sandcastle Bundt

    A scrumptious and stunning cake peanut butter-lovers will absolutely swoon for. Replete with seashells and other fun-in-the-sun accents moulded from:

  • Peanut Butter Putty
    An edible "clay" you can shape and manipulate the same way you would handle fondant/marzipan

    2) Lemon Honey Beehive Cake
    Big and beautiful, fragrant and moist, this honeyed number will set your next party abuzz!

    3) Very Berry + Very Chocolatey Shortcake Baskets
    Chocolate shortcake baskets (using Valrhona Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate) holding a bounty of ripe, juicy macerated berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and/or blueberries can all work here) are as spectacular to look at as they are delectable

    4) Miniature Tiered Cakes
    Learn how to create a fabulous collection of decorated miniature tiered cakes based on Perfect Yellow Layer Cake (see recipe in Bonus Section II). Designs and techniques demonstrated will include a comprehensive selection (depending on time) from the material covered in Bonus Section I

    Bonus Section I - Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides:

    Essential Guide to Core Decorating Techniques for Miniature Tiered Cakes

    Understanding a few essential techniques is key to limitless design possibilities:

    i. Tinting Fondant/Marzipan

    ii. Covering a cake with Fondant/Marzipan

    iii. Handmade Fondant/Marzipan Decorations
    Step-by-step instructions for modelling wonderfully detailed decorations, including:
      - The Perfect Rose
      - Beautiful Bees
      - Grosgrain Bows & Ribbons

    iv. Royal Icing Piped Flowers
    Using a petal tip and flower nail to create 3-D royal icing flowers, including:
      - Rose
      - Chrysanthemum
      - Carnation
      - Daisy
      - Poppy
      - Sunflower
      - Simple drop blossoms

    v. Royal Icing Piped Designs
    For piping directly on the fondant-covered cake, including:
      - Dots, lines and borders
      - Vines and Leaves
      - Lavender fields
      - Tea roses

    vi. Monogramming
    Customise a cake with this easy yet effective technique

    Bonus Section II - Essential Recipes & Basics:

    5) Perfect Yellow Layer Cake
    This "little black dress" of cakes is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for good reason. Tender, delicious, scented with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla bean, it can form the foundation for any number of decorated cakes you care to dream up! A recipe you'll turn to time and again

    6) Meringue Powder Royal Icing
    A cake decorating essential; learn how to distinguish between stiff, soft peak and runny consistencies and the different decorating functions they serve

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    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Sat)
    12.30pm to 8.30pm (Sun)

    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am-8.30pm


    3.00pm-5.30pm
    (2hrs 30mins with intervals)

    Cookbook Author Forest Leong
    Demo + Substantial Food Tasting + Cookbook Signing

    Non-Members: S$99 nett*
    Members: S$89.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    THAI CLASSICS IV
    (New Recipes!)

    Difficulty Rating:2/5
    (No or litle cooking background required)

    1) Steamed Cup Cake
    (kanom pui fai)

    Fuffy and light steam cup cake which is suitable for late afternoon tea

    2) Homemade Northern Thai Sausage
    (sai wuao)

    Fragrant grill with loads of fresh herbs, allowing this sausage to be a starter or main dish

    3) Massaman Chicken Curry
    A creamy chicken curry with potatoes, onions, coconut milk, tamarind juice & palm sugar

    4) Beef Salad with Grapes
    A quick Thai salad, given a twist of grapes

    Served with Thai Lemongrass Tea


    CLOSED (for Private Event)
    21 22 23
    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Sat)
    12.30pm to 8.30pm (Sun)

    3.00pm-6.00pm
    (3hrs with an interval)

    Guest Chef Christopher Tan, Cookbook Author
    Demo + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Box of Treats to Take Home

    Non-Members: S$109 nett*
    Members: S$98.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    BAKE IT BETTER: BROWNIES
    (MASTER RECIPE + VARIATIONS)
    (Repeat - Back by Popular Demand!)

    Difficulty Rating:2/5
    (No or little baking background required)
    Everything you always wanted to know about baking, but were afraid to ask!

    Basic Recipe + Techniques & Tricks + Troubleshooting

    3 Variations (demonstrated)

    1) Classic Fudgy Brownies
    Dense, intense & decadent in texture

    2) Classic Cakey Brownies
    Lighter & fluffier in texture

    3) Marbled Cheesecake Brownies
    Dark chocolate & cream cheese batters, swirled into an attractive & sumptuous combination

    Bonus Recipes (For you to try-at home!)

    4) Mocha Brownies
    Laced with espresso & coffee extract for an eye-opening kick!

    5) Wholewheat Walnut Brownies
    Higher in fibre, made with fine wholewheat flour & walnut oil

    6) Blondies
    'Brownies' made with valrhona white chocolate, delicately perfumed with pure almond extract

    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am-8.30pm


    3.00pm-6.30pm
    (3hrs 30mins with an interval)

    Guest Chef Joycelyn Shu
    Demo + Food Tasting + Handcrafted Treats to take home + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Bonus Sections with Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides, Essential Recipes & Basics

    Non-Members: S$119 nett*
    Members: S$107.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    FABULOUS PARTY CAKES
    (New Recipes!)

    Difficulty Rating: 2/5
    (No or little baking background required)

    1) Peanut Butter
    Sandcastle Bundt

    A scrumptious and stunning cake peanut butter-lovers will absolutely swoon for. Replete with seashells and other fun-in-the-sun accents moulded from:

  • Peanut Butter Putty
    An edible "clay" you can shape and manipulate the same way you would handle fondant/marzipan

    2) Lemon Honey Beehive Cake
    Big and beautiful, fragrant and moist, this honeyed number will set your next party abuzz!

    3) Very Berry + Very Chocolatey Shortcake Baskets
    Chocolate shortcake baskets (using Valrhona Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate) holding a bounty of ripe, juicy macerated berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and/or blueberries can all work here) are as spectacular to look at as they are delectable

    4) Miniature Tiered Cakes
    Learn how to create a fabulous collection of decorated miniature tiered cakes based on Perfect Yellow Layer Cake (see recipe in Bonus Section II). Designs and techniques demonstrated will include a comprehensive selection (depending on time) from the material covered in Bonus Section I

    Bonus Section I - Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides:

    Essential Guide to Core Decorating Techniques for Miniature Tiered Cakes

    Understanding a few essential techniques is key to limitless design possibilities:

    i. Tinting Fondant/Marzipan

    ii. Covering a cake with Fondant/Marzipan

    iii. Handmade Fondant/Marzipan Decorations
    Step-by-step instructions for modelling wonderfully detailed decorations, including:
      - The Perfect Rose
      - Beautiful Bees
      - Grosgrain Bows & Ribbons

    iv. Royal Icing Piped Flowers
    Using a petal tip and flower nail to create 3-D royal icing flowers, including:
      - Rose
      - Chrysanthemum
      - Carnation
      - Daisy
      - Poppy
      - Sunflower
      - Simple drop blossoms

    v. Royal Icing Piped Designs
    For piping directly on the fondant-covered cake, including:
      - Dots, lines and borders
      - Vines and Leaves
      - Lavender fields
      - Tea roses

    vi. Monogramming
    Customise a cake with this easy yet effective technique

    Bonus Section II - Essential Recipes & Basics:

    5) Perfect Yellow Layer Cake
    This "little black dress" of cakes is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for good reason. Tender, delicious, scented with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla bean, it can form the foundation for any number of decorated cakes you care to dream up! A recipe you'll turn to time and again

    6) Meringue Powder Royal Icing
    A cake decorating essential; learn how to distinguish between stiff, soft peak and runny consistencies and the different decorating functions they serve

  • Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm-8.30pm


    3.00pm-6.30pm
    (3hrs 30mins with an interval)

    Guest Chef Joycelyn Shu
    Demo + Food Tasting + Handcrafted Treats to take home + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Bonus Sections with Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides, Essential Recipes & Basics

    Non-Members: S$119 nett*
    Members: S$107.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    FABULOUS PARTY CAKES
    (New Recipes!)

    Difficulty Rating: 2/5
    (No or little baking background required)

    1) Peanut Butter
    Sandcastle Bundt

    A scrumptious and stunning cake peanut butter-lovers will absolutely swoon for. Replete with seashells and other fun-in-the-sun accents moulded from:

  • Peanut Butter Putty
    An edible "clay" you can shape and manipulate the same way you would handle fondant/marzipan

    2) Lemon Honey Beehive Cake
    Big and beautiful, fragrant and moist, this honeyed number will set your next party abuzz!

    3) Very Berry + Very Chocolatey Shortcake Baskets
    Chocolate shortcake baskets (using Valrhona Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate) holding a bounty of ripe, juicy macerated berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and/or blueberries can all work here) are as spectacular to look at as they are delectable

    4) Miniature Tiered Cakes
    Learn how to create a fabulous collection of decorated miniature tiered cakes based on Perfect Yellow Layer Cake (see recipe in Bonus Section II). Designs and techniques demonstrated will include a comprehensive selection (depending on time) from the material covered in Bonus Section I

    Bonus Section I - Decorating Ideas & Essential Technique Guides:

    Essential Guide to Core Decorating Techniques for Miniature Tiered Cakes

    Understanding a few essential techniques is key to limitless design possibilities:

    i. Tinting Fondant/Marzipan

    ii. Covering a cake with Fondant/Marzipan

    iii. Handmade Fondant/Marzipan Decorations
    Step-by-step instructions for modelling wonderfully detailed decorations, including:
      - The Perfect Rose
      - Beautiful Bees
      - Grosgrain Bows & Ribbons

    iv. Royal Icing Piped Flowers
    Using a petal tip and flower nail to create 3-D royal icing flowers, including:
      - Rose
      - Chrysanthemum
      - Carnation
      - Daisy
      - Poppy
      - Sunflower
      - Simple drop blossoms

    v. Royal Icing Piped Designs
    For piping directly on the fondant-covered cake, including:
      - Dots, lines and borders
      - Vines and Leaves
      - Lavender fields
      - Tea roses

    vi. Monogramming
    Customise a cake with this easy yet effective technique

    Bonus Section II - Essential Recipes & Basics:

    5) Perfect Yellow Layer Cake
    This "little black dress" of cakes is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for good reason. Tender, delicious, scented with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla bean, it can form the foundation for any number of decorated cakes you care to dream up! A recipe you'll turn to time and again

    6) Meringue Powder Royal Icing
    A cake decorating essential; learn how to distinguish between stiff, soft peak and runny consistencies and the different decorating functions they serve

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    Retail Shop & Office Hours:
    12.30pm to 8.30pm
    Vesak Day (Public Holiday)

    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 10.30am-8.30pm


    3.00pm-5.30pm
    (2hrs 30mins with intervals)

    Cookbook Author Forest Leong

    Demo + Substantial Food Tasting + Cookbook Signing

    Non-Members: S$99 nett*
    Members: S$89.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    THAI CLASSICS I
    (Repeat - Back by Popular Demand!)

    Difficulty Rating:2/5
    (No or little baking background required)

    1) Pomelo Salad
    (yum sum-o)

    Sweet, juicy pomelo with crushed peanuts and refreshing herbs make a perfect salad on a hot day

    2) Tom Yum Prawns
    (tom yum goong)

    This clear spicy broth is flavoured with lemon grass, coriander and galangal

    3) Stir-Fried Thai Noodles
    (pad thai)

    This healthy version of the ubiquitous Thai fried noodles is full of flavour - just like what one might find at the roadside food stalls in Bangkok

    4) Glutinous Rice with Ripe Mango
    (khao niew ma muang)

    The sweetness of repined mangoes is heightened by lightly salted glutinuous rice and coconut milk in this simple dessert,

    Served with Thai Lemongrass Tea

    Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm-8.30pm


    3.00pm-6.00pm
    (3hrs with an interval)

    Guest Chef Patrick Heuberger
    Award-Winning Exec Chef & Part-Owner, Le Bistrot Du Sommelier

    Demo + Substantial Food Tasting

    Non-Members: S$109 nett*
    Members: S$98.10 nett
    Prepayment Required.

    CHARCUTERIE: The Traditional French Art of Curing Meats
    (New Recipes!)

    Difficulty Rating: 3/5
    (Some cooking background preferable; but all are welcome!)

    1) Duck Rillette (Rillette de Canard)

    2) Duck Sausage with Pistachios and Gizzard Confit (Saucisse de Canard aux Pistaches)

    3) Chicken Liver Paté with Port Wine (Paté de Foie de Volaille au Porto)

    4) Foie Gras Terrine Infused with Sweet Wine (Terrine de Foie Gras)

    5) Country-Style Pork Terrine (Terrine de Champagne)

    Served with French bread (baguette).

    Complimentary wine will be served. Sponsored by Le Bistrot Du Sommelier.