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Hands-on Cooking: Pies and Tarts

  • Beginner
  • 18 and older
  • Earn 10% back in points
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    If you find the same class on the same dates for less within 48 hours of booking, send us the link. We match the price as credit or the difference.

  • 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
  • 2 hours

Start Dates (0) $75/person

  • Venue: ITW Kitchen

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Class Description

Description

Explore the basics of two types of pastry dough in this cooking class—a traditional flaky crust for sweet and savory pies as well as a sweet tart dough for a rich and crisp dessert base. Practice the different preparation, rolling, and shaping of both types. 

Learn how to make: 
  • Luscious lemon curd filling
  • a bacon, arugula, and tomato quiche
  • a summer fruit pie for dessert. 
Take home two individual seasonal fruit tarts and a fluted pie shell to enjoy at home later. 

Please bring a nine-inch pie pan.

Refund Policy

Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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This class: 4.0 out of 5 from 1 review

  • Hands-on Cooking: Pies and Tarts

    I would have liked instruction for a lattice top on pie. Everything else was excellent.
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Chicago Botanic Garden

The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.

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