Winter - Spring 2025 Courses
2 Swedish Staples
​Come for an evening of making the classic Limpa Rye Bread and the chocolate cake Kladdkaka. Limpa is a classic Swedish rye bread with a tender crumb and a hint of fragrant orange and anise seed. Perfect for sandwiches, soups or with a bit of butter. Limpa is a staple in Swedish Cuisine. Kladdkaka is similar to American Brownies but different at the same time. It’s a dense, rich chocolate dessert with a crip exterior and a soft gooey interior.
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East Carver - Jan 24th
10 Skills Every Home Cook Should Know!
Are you struggling with the basics of cooking? Do you have fun in the kitchen or it is just hard? Is cutting an onion or cleaning veggies difficult? Do you know how to make gravy? Birthed out of the Kids Cooking Camp Heather teaches in the summer, this one evening class will introduce 10 kitchen skills that ever home cook should master to make at home cooking smoother and more enjoyable. Please bring your chopping knife, your paring knife and a 4-6 cup covered container to class with you.
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​Shakopee March 10
Air plants!
Learn the secrets of cultivating vibrant air plants in this engaging workshop! Ideal for beginners and plant enthusiasts alike, this class will guide you through the unique characteristics and care requirements of these fascinating plants. You will also take home your very own air plant!
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Shakopee April 22
Bubble Tea
What is it? Originating from Taiwan, and in it is basic form, this drink consists of sweetened black tea, milk, ice, and chewy tapioca pearls, all shaken together like a martini and served with a fat straw to accommodate the marbles of tapioca that cluster at the bottom of the cup. The shake introduces the milk bubbles and the pearls add to the beauty of this high end, popular drink. Variations can include Classic, Taro, Brown Sugar, Fruit filled, and many more. This hands-on class will introduce you to how to make this drink at home, including how to make the tapioca pearls and adjust it to your personal taste. 2 different drinks will be made per person.
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TCU - March 4
Prior Lake - April 15
Chocolate Truffles, Creamy Caramels
Decadent, smooth, rich chocolates and creamy, melt in your mouth, caramels are a must have for the upcoming holiday season or really for anytime. This hands on class will teach you how to make simple truffles, filled bon bons and caramels. Come learn to work with chocolate and caramel, make a sweet gift, or just have fun. Please bring a container and parchment paper to bring your treats home in
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TCU Feb 10th​
Cinnamon and Caramel Rolls
​ These sweet bready rolls are made with cinnamon, with nuts, without nuts and/or with raisins. They can be topped with frosting or left plain as a warm rich treat. The bread base can be made into caramel rolls, orange glory rolls or a variety of other sweet rolls depending on your liking. What type do you like best? I love to smell the deep yeasty smell and taste the warmth of the flour and sugar in my mouth. Come learn to make a batch from scratch in this class! I am sure that they will NOT be around for long as they taste so good! Bring a 9x13 pan to class with you. Gluten free is an option, just indicate it at registration.
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Shakopee Feb 7
Comfort Food: FOR KIDS
​The kitchens are open after school for your child to make dinner for you. They will learn kitchen skills and bring home a full warm meal to be eaten for supper.
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Jan 21: Immune boosting Chicken soup with a salad and dessert
Feb 25: Homemade Mac and Cheese with a side and dessert
March 11: Cheesy Enchiladas, with a side and dessert
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Prior Lake - 3 dates
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Comfort Foods - Chicken Pot Pie
​Nothing is a decadent or savory as pie. For me, it is chicken pot pie of my favorite comfort foods. The crust that flakes, breaking open to revel the bright orange carrots, brilliant green peas and beans, the tender potatoes and sweet corn all in a creamy gravy with chicken bites. In this hands-on class, we will be making 2 pies. One to freeze and one to eat for supper the next day. Come and learn how to make pie crusts and gravy, assemble it and be ready to cook it later. Bring 2 large pie pans with you to class.
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Prior Lake - Jan 13​
Comfort Foods: Dumplings and Soup
​Who does not like Dumplings? Whether it is the Czech ones such as knedliky sliced on a plate with butter or the more familiar ones swimming in broths or stew. In this hands on class we will make knedliky dumplings, and then create 1 soup such as a thick cream Chicken Veggie Dumpling or a lighter Asian version.. Indicate if you want an Asian based or a traditional chicken soup at registration. Everyone will go home with 1 small batch of knedliky, 1 soup and recipes. Please bring a soup pot and a container for your knedliky.
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TCU Jan 21
Creative Super Bowl Appetizers
​Looking to make more exciting appetizers for your Super Bowl party than the usual meatballs, bacon-wrapped smokies, and chips with cheese dip? Join us to prepare a variety of fun, creative hors d'oeuvres. Each participant will make 2 types of appetizers that can be frozen until the big game. Recipes, instructions, and ideas will be shared, so you'll leave feeling inspired and ready to wow your guests. Please bring 2 cookie sheets or 9x13 pans - you'll go home with around 3 dozen appetizers prepped and ready to go
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​Jordan Jan 10th
Date Night with a Chocolate Raspberry Cake
​Bring your favorite person and the two of you will make this amazing raspberry white chocolate cake. It is beautiful and full of flavor starting with the vanilla sponge cake, continuing with a mascarpone and raspberry compote and finishing with a thin layer of white chocolate buttercream. Oh, It’s glorious and experience the bliss of raspberries, chocolate and balanced sweetness. Singles also welcome as you will not have to share this decedent treat! Oh, Don't forget to bring a cake plate or platter to bring your cake home in!
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Jordan April 4
Dessert Kids Love!
Who doesn’t love a chocolate chip cookie, a brownie or a cupcake (pick your flavor). Even a bit of vanilla or chocolate pudding, creamy and smooth, brings a smile of delight. Let’s celebrate the winter with sweetness. Come make 3 treats to nibble on and bring home, chocolate chip cookies are included. When registering, please include your favorite dessert. Bring a 8x8 pan, and 2 covered dishes to bring home desserts.
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Prior Lake Jan 11
New Prague Jan 25
Dinner and Annie
​Food and musical loving people ONLY! Parents or adults and their favorite youth will experience an afternoon to remember, including access to school kitchens, creating a 4-course early meal and seeing the Middle School Musical performance of Annie Jr. As a food and musical lover group, you’ll cook and dine with other families. Dinner will include an appetizer, salad, main course, and dessert. Before dinner, you’ll be treated to VIP seats to watch a student performance of the Middle School Musical at 1:00 pm. Fee includes all supplies and a ticket to the show.
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Prior Lake Feb 15
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Gluten Free
​Join a hands on class for tasting and making all things Gluten Free. Do you need a good pancake recipe or want a chewy bread like ciabatta. Maybe your muffins are too heavy or you have craved a good soft pretzel. Not to mention GF crackers are intensily expensive. Come for tasting of all things yummy but free of wheat, rye and barley. Try your hand at creating muffins or the dough for bread. Bring home recipes and your dough or the finished muffins. Bring a large bowl or covered container to class with you
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New Prague Feb 4​
Jordan March 3
Healthy Dinners from your Freezer
​You are busy! Come and prepare 6 main dishes for your family to make the weeknights a bit easier. These main dishes are designed for a family of 5 and can go from your freezer into your crockpot or your oven. I will do the shopping for you (except your meat) and you will chop, mix, slice and prepare the dish so that it is ready to go into your freezer when you get home. Recipes include Sweet and Sour Chicken, Chicken Taquitos, Taco pie, Tator-Tot Casserole, Pad Thai Chicken Burritos, spice Chickpea bowls.
Please bring your coolers, a 9x13 pan, a pie pan, 4-5 pounds of chicken breasts or thighs, 1 pound ground meat, 1 pound breakfast sausage.
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New Prague Jan 14
Prior Lake Feb 11
Kids Tea Party
​​Join us for a fancy tea party as we celebrate animals or unicorns. Featuring table clothes, china and sweet goodies that appeal to the child within every one of us. Bring your parents, come dressed and together we can mix, bake and cook a roaring, slithering or sparkly party to nibble on. You choose if you want wild animals or sparkly unicorns based on the day! For the treats you don't consume, bring two containers!
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Jordan March 11 (Theme: Wild Animals)
New Prague April 1 (Theme: Unicorns)
TCU April 7 (Theme : Unicorns)
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Kitchen Herb Gardens
Take the mystery and fear out of growing and cooking with herbs—basil, dill, cilantro, lavender, rosemary, thyme, sage, tarragon, —to name a few. Taste and smell the flavors of these herbs, and discover the role these flavors have when added to everyday or special dishes and cuisines. In this one-hour make-and-take class, we will have an open discussion about herbs, what to do with them and plant a full pot for your patio. Or to set by your back door to use for cooking all summer long! Come with questions or ideas to share! Since we are working with soil, please dress appropriately or bring an apron and gloves.
​ Prior Lake May 13
Pollinator Gardening for Kids
​Did you know that bees need baths and that the monarch butterfly is in trouble because of disappearing milkweed patches? Our pollinators, such as bees, butterflies and bats are suffering because of chemicals and the lack of native plants. We NEED the pollinators so that we can have all the fruit and veggies that we love to eat. This class will talk about why we need pollinators, how to make places in your yard to encourage them to live with you as as well as make a pollinator garden to take home.
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Shakopee May 12
Preserving your Harvest
With the growing season in full swing, it is time to learn the basics of home preservation. Homemade jams, spicy salsas, fresh beans, fermented cabbage can all be enjoyed during the cold winter months. Home canning of fresh food provides a number of benefits, including lower grocery bills, sustainable lifestyles, and better nutrition through control of the ingredients that go into your food. Once you know the basics, home canning and preservation is really quite easy. This class will introduce you to the tools/equipment, food safety, and produce/ingredient selection needed to successfully preserve produce this season and for many years to come. Adults or age 15+.
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LSH April 28
East Carver April 29
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Shrubs:
Drinking vinegars
Shrubs are a drink from colonial times that have become more popular with the numbers of vinegar based or fermented drinks on the market today. Shrubs are typically made with cider vinegar or red wine vinegar, a herb or fruit and sugar. The resulting mix is allowed to “mellow” for a week or more and then added to sparkling water, an alcoholic basic or drunk straight up. Some shrubs are created hot and others cold. Each has their distinctive flavoring and most people prefer one over the other. Come, taste and discover how to make a fruit based shrub and learn the principals of making your own shrubs for your own cocktails and mocktails this fall. Bring a quart sized canning/mason jar with a lid to class.
​Shakopee April 11
Simple Scrubs, Luxurious Lips
​Salt and sugar scrubs moisture your body and remove the dead skin from the drying cold of winter. The lip balms moisturize and protect your delicate skin from sun and wind. Store purchased scrubs and lip balms contain many "extra" ingredients our body does not need and can be costly to our wallets. Come, make and take a rich lip balm, and two fragrant body scrubs or masks to give as a gift or to keep. Essential oils, coconut oil and shea butters will be used.
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Shakopee Feb 18​
Soft Pretzels
​We spend money at the ball game or at the Mall for a hot soft pretzel covered in butter or cinnamon or dipped in cheese. They are yummy and such a treat. Let’s make those bready crusty, soft pretzels in this class together. Bring a 9x13 pan to bring your pretzels home in.
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Prior Lake April 8
Soups - Make and Take 3
Did you know that the word “Soup” has history — the word being derived from "sop" or "sup," which consisted of a slice of bread on which broth was poured. Our soups have become more complex and richer than in the past, but on a cold fall day, a warm bowl of soup is restorative. Come and prep 3 different soups in this class, cooking them at home. And you will have supper or lunch for a while. Soups can be slow cooked, stove top cooked, frozen or divided into smaller portions: Moroccan Lentil, Chicken tortilla and Creamy potato
Bring 3 of the following containers : soup pot, a slow cooker, or large 12-14 cup bowls. A cutting board and your favorite chopping knife are not necessary, but helpful. All soups can be adapted for gluten free or vegan if requested
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Prior Lake Jan 28
Sourdough
Sourdough became popular over the last year as a healthier alternative to regular white or whole wheat bread. Although it has comparable nutrients, the lower phytate levels mean it is more digestible and nutritious. The prebiotics also help to keep your gut bacteria happy, and it may be less likely to spike blood sugar levels. Come to this class and make a dozen sourdough muffins and go home with other bread recipes and a small amount of starter to continue making sourdough at home. Bring a quart glass jar with a lid to class.
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Shakopee January 23
LSH Jan 27
East Carver Jan 31
TCU - Feb 24
New Prague March 31
Succulents
For the people without a green thumb or those that love plants….Come for a make and take afternoon at the Shakopee brewery with succulent plants. Even if you kill plants, these ones are hardy and can take quite a bit of neglect. Learn how to care for them and then pick a variety to plant in a provided pot. Create your own unique gift for yourself or another. Perfect class to do with mom or a friend.
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​ LSH May 14
Valentines Cupcakes
​Sweet cupcakes and valentines day go together with a loved one. Come and learn to frost, sprinkle, and creatively decorate a dozen cupcakes with a special person. Techniques in roses/flowers/hearts will be taught for those that wish to learn. Fee includes cupcakes, frosting, and decorations. Please bring a box, pan or container to bring your finished creations home in
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Shakopee Feb 14th
Wrap and Roll
Come and join in a hands-on experience to learn, prepare, and taste Chinese- American style egg rolls; what we see/eat in Chinese takeout restaurants. Everyone will have about a dozen egg rolls to bring home (if they make it there before you eat them)! We will cover the types of wrappers used, different filling ideas, rolling techniques, and ways to cook. By taking this class, you’ll have a greater appreciation for the variety of egg rolls that there are, as well as how to make them at home.
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Prior Lake March 7
East Carver - April 14th
Vomacka and Zelnicky
On the menu is Vomacka and Zelnicky! Never heard of it? In this class, you will learn to make this yummy creamy Czech soup and the sauerkraut cracker to complete it. Filled with green beans and potatoes in a cream sauce with a touch of apple cider vinegar, this soup is perfect for any evening this winter as it celebrates the harvests of the last season and looks forward to spring. Zelniky’s crisp flavors meld perfectly with the milky goodness of Vomacka. Bring a soup pot to class with you.
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East Carver - Feb 25