The Gourmet Dessert Course in an intensive day of working on four delicious recipes, all with many elements to them. The recipes are caramel choux buns withcraquelin, chocolate truffle mousse with raspberry centre, lime and white chocolate cheesecake with spiced biscuit base and pistachio and apricot Opera Cake.

The skills include using gelatine, making and using glassage/mirror glazes, making a few chocolate decorations, making jaconde and biscuit bases, making choux pastry, mousseline and creme au beurre plus using flavoured inserts that give modern desserts that real interest when cut in to! 

Not only do you get to take home the stunning creations, you'll have the recipes, new skills and confidence to tackle them in the future to impress friends and family!

Since we cover so much on the day, making the recipes will be shared between all the attendees (max 3), and tasks will be rotated so that everyone gets a chance to experience as much as possible! You will take a variety of the desserts home. 

This course is perfect for those who are already keen in the kitchen and wanting to refine their skills and recipe knowledge. For those of you who are not so comfortable in the kitchen, the Handmade Chocolate Courses are a very good place to start! 

This course is taught by Shona Sutherland, winner of the Chocolate Category of the Scottish Baking Awards 2014, the Chocolate Category of the National Chocolate Awards at the Perth Chocolate Festival 2014, Gold Medal and Best in Class Winner at the Scottish Culinary Championships in the Chocolate Display Class at ScotHot 2015 and Gold and Silver Medal winner for filled chocolates at ScotHot 2017. 

Price per person: £120

Time: 10am until 5pm 

Venue: Taystful, 1A High Street, Blairgowrie, PH10 6ET.

Please wear comfortable kitchen safe shoes (no open toes or slippy soles). Aprons will be supplied. Please bring a light lunch to have during the day.

Courses terms of sale:

Only once payment is made is your place reserved on the course. Unfortunately we cannot refund course payments if an attendee cancels and a replacement attendee cannot be found. At the discretion of Taystful, in some circumstances, the payment may be transferred to another course. Refunds of course payments will be made if the course is cancelled by Taystful. If courses are not filled there is a possibility of a course not going ahead, but we will try our best to have the course running regardless! You will be informed of this if it happens and refunded money paid for the course. 

No money will be refunded in any cases for accommodation or travel, please make sure you have adequate event/travel insurance in place to cover this and the course payment if you cannot attend due to illness, adverse weather or any other reason.