Baking Camp 2025: B3 June 23rd – 26th Ages 11-18

Session B3: June 23-26th

(New for 2025: this is a 4-day camp)

Welcome to our Kids/Teens Baking Camps Camps!

Each one of the *Newly Extended* 4-day long camp will be a mix of Baking Methods and Pastry Artistry. Campers will learn classic techniques that will develop their skills and understanding of baking. They will enjoy their creations as well as bring home plenty to share!

Back for the 7th year (though our 11th year for summer camps), each camp runs Monday – Thursday from 9am – 1pm within our cooking space at Bowers in Lower South End.  Our Camps are meant to be more then your ‘cookie-cutter’ and “kitchy” cooking school. Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen wants to teach the young chefs fantastic dishes! We do kindly request that your child has some experience cooking with a parent in the kitchen before signing up.

All recipes are designed by Chef Alyssa and led by our pastry chef instructor team made up of full-time team members with baking and pastry degrees and years of industry experience.

Our baking camps incorporate both sweet and savory items in order to develop our camper’s skills. Each technique will be taught in a process that will make it easy to master and feel like a seasoned baker!

Our 2025 Baking Camps are led by pastry chef Brittany Nolen of Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen

We request some previous baking experience for this camp. Ages 11-18 only. Please email [email protected] for any questions.

Pricing for each session is $370, which includes everything (including a daily snack). It’s best to sign-up early as our camps will sell out in advance. Tickets are non-refundable after April 30, 2025

We will avoid all nuts in this camp, it can also be made vegetarian. Unfortunately, gluten, dairy and egg allergies cannot be accommodated.

Campers will eat what they’ve made each day. It will not amount to a traditional lunch, however Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen will provide a hearty and nutritious snack at 10:30am each day that will be filling enough to hold campers until camp concludes.

Each child will receive an apron (first year campers) or other gift (returning campers) and recipe book to take home. And please let us know by e-mail about any allergies as soon as possible. If your camper is signing up with other siblings or friends please note based upon the number that know each other we will do our best to keep them together. But based upon age, skill level we may have to adjust table settings but if your camper signed up with multiple friends or siblings we guarantee they will be with at least 1 friend each day.

Please list all allergen information when signing up. This camp cannot be made gluten, dairy or egg free unfortunately. Note: This event will hold up to 16 campers (4 groups of 4). Campers will receive a bakery box to utilize for bringing home their treats, but we ask they also bring a Tupperware container daily for any additional items they will be bringing home. 

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Each day of the class will focus on a new set of methods. Some dishes made one day will be completed on the following in order to build the dish. 

Day 1: 

Croissant Dough (days 1-3)

Garnishes and Confections: candied citrus zest and chocolate swirls

Classic Crème Brulé

Pastry Cream

Day 2:

French Macarons with Seasonal Flavors

Ciabatta (days 2-3)

Italian Buttercream

Day 3:

Pear Tarte Tatin

Mille-Feuille with grilled Peaches & Mascarpone

Traditional Croissants

Day 4:

Buffalo Chicken Flatbread

Savory Pinwheels

Eclairs

Focused Skills throughout camp: scaling and measurements, laminated dough, meringues, yeast dough and fermentation, chocolate tempering for confections, working with sugar and stages of caramel, custards, sauce making, jam making, composed desserts

 

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-1 ticket is for 1 person

-Please note, just as in all CAK events each guest will be sharing equipment, tools, prep and ultimately the food they’ve made during the class with their table-mates.

-Camp registration becomes non-refundable April 30th. If you were to cancel after this date, we can only issue a credit if the camp ticket is filled by another camper