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.

• Cooking with Chef Gérard
• Decorating Classes
• Baking and Decorating 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. Create a three-tiered wedding cake with separator plates and pillars, covered with rolled fondant and featuring drapes, swags, piped embroidery with pearls, and fabric roses.

Crooked cakes, funky cakes, whimsy cakes, or wacky cakes - whatever you like to call them, you'll learn to assemble these gravity-defying cakes in a structurally sound manner. During the first two classes, the instructor will demonstrate the many different ways of assembling wacky cakes. In the optional third class, you'll produce your own two-tiered fondant-covered crooked cake.

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 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!

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 to create realistic edible fruit, vegetables, and animal and people figurines from marzipan (a mixture of sugar and almonds), perfect for decorating a dessert platter or as individual 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!

Practice your cake decorating skills and learn new techniques during this project class. Guided by the instructor, you'll create a beautiful cake for Easter celebrations. You'll cover a cake with textured fondant, create basketfuls of miniature eggs and a giant egg centrepiece, and mould cute bunnies.