CCA Podium offers Pastry Essentials course

MANILA, Philippines - The Center for Culinary Arts (CCA) Podium, one of the country’s top culinary schools, is offering short baking courses that will help perfect the art and science of baking and will surely impress your guests.

CCA Podium’s newest class, “Pastry Essentials,” is designed to solve the most common baking mistakes and help satisfy our sweet tooth.

Chef Anne Atanacio, CCA’s baking coordinator, will be instructing the class with hands-on demonstrations on how to create treats like red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and salted caramel macaroons. 

“One of the biggest problems that I often hear with baking is that the end product comes out too tough and dry,” explains chef Anne Atanacio. “The solution is simple, don’t over mix the ingredients. Beating the mixture brings too much air into concoction and creates a drier product.”

Chef Anne stresses that baking also requires the correct measurements and proper ingredients in order to succeed. “If a cookie recipe calls for brown sugar, you put brown sugar and not white. Brown sugar helps develop a moister product. Using white sugar will result in a different texture.”

For information, call 509-3466, 502-5651 or visit http://www.cca-manila.com/. Like CCA Podium on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CCAPodium or