Last weekend was fabulous. I had the best time teaching my favourite recipes, chit-chatting about baking, and hanging out with a fun group of participants.
I just got my hands on the photos taken at the class, and I couldn’t wait to share them with you. Even if it meant staying up till three am to sort through 191 photos. My darling photographer friend, Sheena, captured some lovely shots of the class in progress.
For all those who came for the class – thank you! I am thrilled to bits that you signed up for my first baking class. It was such a pleasure meeting all of you. You guys were a dream bunch. Sucheta came in all the way from New Delhi, the ebullient Minila live-tweeted the event and Roshni baked a batch of brownies the very next day!
Here’s a peek at one glorious afternoon of baking and eating. Hop over to the Facebook album for more photos, and please feel free to tag yourselves!
I made chocolate chip cookies for the early birds.
We laughed, clapped, squealed and were generally mesmerised by chocolate.
We rolled cookie dough and used our favourite cutters.
We sliced the perfect pinwheels.
We ate cookies warm from the oven.
We gasped as the wonders of parchment paper.
We ate lots and lots of brownies.
I packed some lavender shortbread dough for students to bake up at home.
I made vanilla sugar for everyone attending.
Happy people filling up their doggie bags make me happy.
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For people unlike Sucheta, who cannot come as much as they would want to can you please do a all India tour of your class :) and come to Chennai too, pretty please?
All in good time. :)
Congrats on your first class! I wish I could have come… it looks really fun and I need to learn to make pinwheels! And thats really nice of you to give everyone vanilla sugar, and the bags they came in are so cute :)
Thanks, Xinmei! Very kind of you. :)
If only school was such fun
Thanks, Kalyan! =)
If every come to Bangalore to take a class, I’ll offer you my living room for it!
I’m going to take you up on that offer! ;)
i wish i was in bbay…moved to chennai a couple of yrs ago ! u have to come here :D miss bbay. your baking class rocked im sure ! i love the vanilla sugar :-)
That’s very kind of you. Thank you!
Hey S!!
So happy that ur first class was successful!! Congratulations dear!!
Love,
D!
Thank you so much, Disha!
Congrats on a job well-done!
(I’m bettin’ that class will get bigger and bigger as more people find out about it!)
Cowboy Shaman
Thank you!
Looks like you guys had a great time!!! Wonderful! I wish I could attend too … maybe the next time you pop by, you are teaching a class. Please schedule more of these. Best wishes for all of these endeavors.
Thank you so much Fazela for your long standing readership and constant words of encouragement. :)
This looks like a great class, you are inspiring and I would love to do the same thing one day!
You totally should!
I saw your photos on facebook, and it looked like so much fun, I was sad I couldn’t be there.
If you give a class in Provence, I bet I could find a nice group of people who’d want to attend! :)
Oh, Holly! You have me dreaming already. =)
Eeee! So exciting! It was most fun <3
SO glad you had fun =)
wow..looks like a fun time baking & cooking!!!
Congratulations and I know that there will be many, many more of these successful events! So very happy for you.
Congratulations on your first cooking class! Looks like it was a roaring success!
Awesome Pics.. Looks like you all had an amazing time…Loved your idea of vanilla sugar and the lavender dough. Truly inspiring!!! Great stuff…keep it up!!
Could you give me the details of your classes in Mumbai .. am super keen
Please do let me know when your next class is on and also if I can bring my 11 yr old daughter along . She is a huge fan!
Thanks!
Hi,
I’m a huge fan of your site, as I too live and love to bake!
However, I am scared of all the weight that I put on. You look amazing and fit! Can I ask a somewhat personal question: how do you keep those calories from staying on?
(Kindly ignore and forgive me if you found my question to be intrusive!)
Lalita
Ha! :) It’s not personal. In fact, I’m in the process of putting together a FAQ page and the answer to this question features there as well. I keep getting asked this a lot. But really, there is no secret to it. I think I just have skinny genes. I eat a lot. I mean A LOT. But also, I have this point that I reach that I call “Level of Boredom” beyond which nothing tastes good no matter how good it is. Maybe that prevents me from over eating.
Really enjoyed going through your website… enjoy baking and loved everything about your site. If your ever in Bangalore would love to attend one of your baking classes.
Congratulations on your first class! Looks like it was a lot of fun. I wish you continued success! And – would love to know if you come to the United States!
Hey Shaheen! awesome stuff :) when’s your next class?
Hey! LOVE your website, really inspired to follow your footsteps and make delicious things for my family.
I just wanted to ask that when you take classes, do you ask your students to bring their ingridients or do you buy them and they pay it in your fee?
Hope you are okay with answering this. Thanks!
Love your blog and what awesome photos (clap, clap). I think you look a lot like the film actress Sonam Kapoor in that photo with the bow . I was also wondering about the weight too (yeah, we women are like that only!). Do keep blogging.
looks like it was huge success n’ you all had a great time…:)…kudos to you on your first baking class…looking fwd to more updates like this…:)
HI Shaheen,
Would like to know what oven you use .
Thanks ,
alpana
Hi Shaheeen!
When is your next class slated for? pls do keep me posted. Woould love lovee to attend a Sat / Sunday class.
When is the next baking class?
hey! when will there be another workshop on baking? and where? i want to learn how to bake since forever!
When is your next class and how does one sign up? Hope its in Mumbai!
Another plea for a class! My 13-yr old is seriously keen!
Found your blog a couple of days back. LOVE IT!
Any classes in Chennai, you can use my kitchen :)
Hey, when is your next baking class?? seems like so many are in queue…me too, so pls let us know…
Hey, nothing for now, I’ve moved to Paris. Will let you know when I’m back. : )
Hi ,
Anything baking class planned for Bangalore in 2013??
Rani
You flatter me! Nothing planned for 2013 yet in Bangalore.. maybe Bombay.
Hi Shaheen,
Would you please put up your Mumbai Schedule for 2013?
I’d like nothing more than to attend.
I dream of being able to do the patisserie programme at le cordon bleu everyday!
As soon as it’s finalised!
I would like to enroll in baking classes. Please let me know about your schedule in Mumbai .
Any time you would like to come to Santa CRuz de la Sierra Bolivia, you can have
my house the living room and soon we will be oppenig a very njice place where lessons can be set up. My partner and I are chefs too. Specialist in Comida fusion on LAtin America.
I own a shop for 20 years Don Camaron on seafood and fish. WE love what we do
Everything seems delicious
Congrats
PLEASE!!!! I want to attend atleast 1 class!!! But I can’t opt for Paypal or online bank transfer! Can you accept Cash deposit please??
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