Community Education cooking classes available in gift bundles

Brazosport College’s Community Education Department is offering a perfect holiday gift for anyone looking to spice up their culinary skills. Whether an aspiring chef or a novice with the goal of preparing a few tasty treats or meals, the College’s CE cooking classes have gift bundles for everyone.

Three different gift bundles are available, with each bundle focusing on a particular theme and consisting of two classes. Class themes include cake decorating, cookie decorating and preparing four- or five-course Italian and Cinco de Mayo meals from CE’s “Let’s Get Cooking” series.

The courses are two- to three-hours long and will be taught in Brazosport College’s state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen. The first cookie and cake decorating classes begin in January, while the “Let’s Get Cooking” classes start in March.

Instructing the classes are Debbie Warren (Italian and Cinco de Mayo meals), Nina Canales (cake decorating) and Rebecca Livoti (cookie decorating). They combine for more than 75 years of professional cooking experience.

Gift certificates are available for these bundles by calling BC Community Education at (979) 230-3600.

Below is a more detailed look at each of the three gift bundles:

Cake Decorating gift bundle
January 23 & February 27 — $85
Instructor: Nina Canales

The Cake Decorating bundle includes learning icing techniques and variations of design, icing piping, flowers, basket weaving and more. Participants will also receive step-by-step, hands-on instruction to making gum paste flowers and molds. All materials will be provided and each student gets to take home their own unique creation.

Cookie Decorating gift bundle
March 30 & April 27 — $70
Instructor: Rebecca Livotti
This bundle includes beginning and intermediate cookie decorating. Participants will learn to mix/color royal icing to complete basic border/flood techniques, while learning how to add both incorporated and three-dimensional decorations. Additionally, students will build on these skills to create more intricate decorations, including three-dimensional flowers. Each student gets to take home a dozen of his or her personally decorated cookies.

“Let’s Get Cooking” – Italian Dinner & Cinco de Mayo gift bundle
March 25 & April 22 — $150
Instructor: Debbie Warren
These are hands-on cooking classes. Students will prepare all parts of the four- to five-course meals and will sit together to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The first course will be a classic Italian dinner, which includes ravioli from scratch, foaccia, tiramisu and more. The second class features the celebration of Cinco de Mayo with a meal that includes enchiladas verde, spicy guacamole, tres leches cake and more. Libations are welcome.

Register today by calling (979) 230-3600. For more information on any of these bundles or to learn more about BC Community Education, visit www.brazosport.edu/ce.