About Golda's Kitchen

For the novice and expert alike, there is always something new to learn from attending a cooking class. Our classes are conducted in the fully-equipped demonstration kitchen of our retail store.

We strongly recommend that you register for classes early, as they may fill up quickly. If you have a particular topic of interest for a class, please let us know; we may be able to offer the class later in the season. And, check back periodically for additions to the course schedule.

• Cake Decorating Classes
• Baking and Decorating Classes
• Cooking Classes
• Course Registration Policies

Whether you prefer to bake your cakes from scratch or prepare them using a mix, you can turn every cake and dessert into something special using some simple -- and some not-so-simple -- decorating techniques. It's easy and rewarding to decorate wonderful cakes and other desserts that will delight your family and friends.

Classes are taught by Wilton certified instructors Maria Kovacs and Susan Vaz de Sousa, professional cake decorator Christine Hasler, and pastry chef Lisa Wong.

An introductory course, covering everything from the basics of icing a cake to creating beautiful borders, stars & shells, writing, figure piping, and making icing roses and floral sprays. An ideal way to learn to decorate cakes for a special birthday or an office shower. You make and decorate two cakes and an assortment of cupcakes during the course. You'll benefit from our smaller class size, hands-on guidance in torting, smoothly icing, and combing your cakes, and extra instruction on figure piping a variety of cute characters.

This course builds on the basics and introduces you to dramatic techniques to make your cakes unforgettable. You'll master elegant new borders featuring rosettes, reverse shells, and rope designs and give your cakes incredible dimension with the addition of colour flow decorations. You make lovely flowers, including rosebuds, daisies, daffodils, mums, pansies, sunflowers, zinnias, and ferns, and use them to create your grand finale: an impressive flower basket cake using the basketweave technique, a beautiful cake for a birthday or special anniversary.

In this course you learn intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland, ruffle borders, and overpiping. You discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including poinsettias, Easter lilies, and petunias. You complete the course by assembling and decorating a towering tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders, suitable for a wedding or elaborate party cake.

With rolled fondant and gum paste, there's no limit to the incredible decorations you can make for your cakes. These dough-like icings are easy to cut and shape to create breathtaking flowers and beautifully-textured drapes and borders. You'll learn how to handle, cut, and tint fondant and gum paste, cover a cake and board with fondant, and add effects such as ribbon garlands, rope borders, punched strips, inlays, and appliqués. And you'll create a variety of gum paste flowers, including daisies, carnations, and leaves.

Learn the skills necessary to decorate and assemble a fondant-covered tiered cake, such as wedding cakes or elaborate party cakes. You'll pipe stringwork, scrolls, and simple but elegant designs. Learn to create roses and small accent flowers on wire and accent with shimmer and lustre dusts to create a floral spray. In the final class, you'll assemble and decorate a 3-tiered wedding cake.

Develop new cake decorating skills for figure modelling and carving cakes during this project class. Guided by the instructor, you'll create a fun cake that's perfect for a child's birthday or can be used as the basis for designing a great cake for an adult birthday or celebration (change the fire truck to your favourite car, replace the dog with a person or couple, etc.). In addition to figure modelling, you'll learn to make design details out of fondant, carve cakes so they assume the correct shape, cover the carved cake with fondant, and attach all of the design details for a finished cake. (Some homework will be required in preparation for the second class.)

Learn to make incredibly lifelike flowers out of gum paste. You create an array of popular flowers and foliage to enhance any cake, including roses, daisies, calla lilies, orchids, sweet peas, carnations, daffodils, small blossoms, and leaves.

Learn to make even more incredibly lifelike flowers out of gum paste, including a French tulip, parrot tulip, lisianthus flower with buds and leaves on a stem, and the ever-popular gerbera daisy.

If you've always wanted to work with chocolate, but didn't know where to start, this class is for you! You'll learn how to work with compound chocolate - including the different tools used and methods for melting chocolate - and how to create a variety of candies and lollipops, pipe chocolate, and paint leaves to create beautiful decorations. You'll also learn how to prepare and work with candy clay for creating baskets and roses.

Learn the techniques necessary for decorating beautiful cookies, suitable for gift giving and holiday decorations. Egg wash glaze cookie icing, buttercream icing, run sugar icing (colour flow), candy coating, fondant, and other advanced techniques will be used to decorate the cookies. You'll learn to decorate with coloured sugars, sprinkles, glitter, dragees, and lustre dusts. You bring the baked cookies and take home decorated treats!

Learn the techniques necessary for decorating beautiful cupcakes, suitable for parties, weddings, or holiday treats. Buttercream icing and fondant will be used to cover the cupcakes and you'll learn basic piping and flower making skills. You bring the baked cupcakes and take home decorated treats!

Learn to create an assortment of beautiful, colourful, edible gems and jewels using isomalt (a natural sugar substitute), perfect for decorating cakes or dessert platters. The skills acquired in this class can also be applied to creating a variety of hard candies and lollipops.

Brownies and squares are ideal treats for gift-giving. Learn new methods and techniques for shaping and decorating brownies for special occasions and everyday goodies. You bring the brownies and take home decorated treats!

Pastry chef Lisa Wong prepares a selection of individual items which would be suitable for serving on a dessert tray. Desserts include cream horns, cream puffs, and eclairs, as well as a variety of pastry cream fillings.

Learn to prepare and decorate delicious cakes suitable for dinner party desserts, special occasions, or weeknight meals. In each class, pastry chef Lisa Wong will show you how to make one or more fundamental cake recipes, icings, and fillings, and then combine them to create delicious dessert cakes. Simple yet elegant methods for decorating your cakes will be demonstrated, including techniques used by professional bakeries. Join us for one class or come back every month to keep adding recipes and ideas to your baking repertoire!

Learn to prepare a variety of different icings and fillings to make your cake not only look great but taste great as well. Pastry chef Lisa Wong will teach you to prepare a basic pastry cream with various fillings, lemon curd, chocolate ganache, as well as a variety of buttercream and whipped cream frostings.

Baking is more than cake and cookies. In this series of classes, pastry chef Lisa Wong shows you how to prepare a variety of muffins, scones, coffee cakes, and pound cakes which are delicious for a weekend brunch or a special breakfast.

Tired of the same old store-bought cookies? Let pastry chef Lisa Wong teach you to prepare a variety of drop cookies, rolled dough, shortbread, refrigerator cookies, and other delicious treats. Different recipes will be prepared in each class.

Cupcakes can be a simple after-school treat for kids or an elegant replacement for a tiered cake at a wedding. In this class, pastry chef Lisa Wong teaches recipes and techniques for preparing a variety of delicious cupcakes, including fillings to turn a "plain" cupcake into a delicious dessert. Different recipes will be prepared in each class.

Brownies and squares are a quick and easy way to prepare delicious treats for the family, as well being suitable for parties and special occasions. Pastry chef Lisa Wong teaches you to prepare both fudgey and cake-like brownies, as well as a variety of other treats.