Top 10 Best English Cooking classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

Spend the morning with Cookie Girl in North London where you will learn to bake a cake, make delicious buttercream to fill and ice it in lots of elaborate and beautiful ways. AND, you get to take it home with you so you can share it with your loved ones. In this class No previous baking/decorating/piping skills are needed.just turn up and have a good time! Cookie Girl (also known as Xanthe) will impart her baking wisdom on you with techniques to ensure your cake mixture can't fail. You will learn how to scale up any recipe for endless layering and the best ways to adapt your favourite bakes. Once your cake is cooled the fun really begins, as you let your artistic side run wild while mastering the stunning ruffle effect before creating a beautiful rose centrepiece. All it takes to become a cake decorating pro is to learn how to: fill a piping bag properly (not the improper way - you wouldn't want to do that now would you?) deal with the dreaded curdled cake mixture perfect the icing recipe so it's light and fluffy use a cake cutter to size your layers correctly master the ruffle effect create a crumb coat to contain the crumbs (because no one wants to have to tidy those up)! Everything is provided by Cookie Girl including aprons, tea, coffee and cupcakes, so all you need to bring is yourself and some baking enthusiasm. Baking aside, you're guaranteed to have a ball - bring those cake-loving friends of yours or meet some fellow baking enthusiasts. You can even bring a date - what a great way to break the ice(ing).. (sorry). By the way: The class only has 8 spots - hurry, make sure you get yours! You can also buy a signed copy of Xanthe's best-selling book "Eat Me" for £15

Great cooking for blokes who need a gentle push into the kitchen! In this class We all love the men in our lives - whether they are brothers, uncles, dads, husbands, boyfriends or just friends. What would be EVEN better, is if they could learn to cook up a storm in the kitchen - which is exactly what this class is all about. This class starts off with a few drinks (some beers for the lads!) and then goes through a simple, step-by-step process for pure kitchen perfection. This class will teach these lucky, chosen men what they need to know; for those nights when staying in is exactly what everyone needs! There are a number of recipes on the agenda, some very special and some absolute classics. Class members will return home fully fed and ready to take on any kitchen challenge (although slightly dependent on earlier beer intake)!

Learn to cook meals the whole family can enjoy - with no compromises! Family is at the heart of cooking, and you can get to the heart of it by learning traditional one-pot, quick, slow-cook and flavourful family dishes. In this class You don't need much cooking experience for this and you don't even need a big family, but we are hoping to hear some funny stories about previous demands that children/husbands/wives have made...so come hungry and happy! Kids (and sometimes our husbands / wives) can have very different views on what they fancy eating, and boy can that become a tricky situation. This class will help you: with those times when the young ones want chocolate cake and ice cream for dinner and you want poached salmon and asparagus with a creamy hollandaise sauce. learn one-pot dishes, quick bits and bobs as well as slow-cooked recipes Its so easy to make good food that both you and the children will love and you should all be able to tuck into the same dishes as a family. The food you learn about in this class will certainly get everyone jumping around the kitchen. Just bring yourself and COME HUNGRY!

This is an evening class teaching the best prepared ahead dinner party dinners! Learn preparation, cooking and knife skill techniques and learn how to balance cooking and entertaining in the best way for a dinner party. Hosting a dinner party is usually pretty stressful, time consuming and, more often than not, it all ends up a bit rushed. If you would rather spend more time entertaining your lovely guests and less time cooking on the night, look no further - this is the one! This class will teach you a bunch of amazing recipes and cooking techniques, all of which let you easily prepare almost all of the courses completely in advance, leaving you plenty of time to get yourself looking fabulous (not to say you weren't already!) and enjoy the company of your guests. Each class will see you preparing a 3-course menu and then enjoying a good amount of it (+ some booze) afterwards Come Hungry! Typical recipes: Zesty salmon bites Brazilian cheese buns Warm roquefort cheesecakes with roasted tomatoes Seared tuna with soy-mirin dressing Duck confit Stuffed pork tenderloin Dauphinoise potatoes Hazelnut meringue roulade & passion fruit coulis Chocolate ginger cheesecake

Learn how to cook delicious food for children! In this class Are you, your nanny, or your au pair struggling to feed your children delicious and nutritious home-made food? Well then look no further, Emma's Kitchen is here to help. You will be taught to cook an impressive repertoire of meals for children that will develop your general kitchen skills along the way. For absolute beginners, you start with the basics; from the perfect chopping of an onion, through to preparing all sorts of simple staples that children absolutely love. This class has so much packed into it and you will make anything from homemade salmon or chicken in breadcrumbs, to authentic pasta sauces; omelettes, lasagna, creamy tomato chicken and the most scrumptious speedy stir-fry. Also, Emma's Kitchen includes some of the more everyday things such as steaming vegetables and cooking rice, couscous and mashed potato. And, you will also dabble with some easy one-pot dishes that will become firm favourites with your children.