Zingerman's Baking and Cooking Classes in Ann Arbor

Join us for one of our most popular hands-on classes! Your family and house guests won't soon forget waking up to the aroma of butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar from freshly baked sweet rolls. Learn how it's done! In this hands-on class, we'll teach you the basic techniques of creating a sweet dough. You'll get plenty of hands-on practice in class with mixing, kneading, hand-shaping, and proofing yeasted doughs. 

You'll leave the BAKE! class with our recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, and all the sweet dough baked goods you made in class. 

In-Person: We'll end class with a tasting of what we made and you'll leave with sweet dough to bake at home later as well as some great coupons. If you're traveling more than an hour to attend, you may want to bring a cooler and ice pack to class with you for storing your bake-at-home sweet dough on the ride home.

Virtual (2-day): On Day 1, we'll make our sweet dough, before refrigerating it overnight. On Day 2, we'll teach you to make and bake three delicious treats both sweet and savory.

What our guests have to say about this class:

I've been baking for years and have worked in a bakery—I just love learning new tricks I might not know. —Barb S.

The cinnamon rolls were as light as pillows and the taste was pure heaven. —Joyce S.

Such a nice experience! I don't have much baking experience and I loved every minute of it! —Jolie S.

This was my best class yet, out of probably a dozen. I love the versatility of what I can do with the dough. —Beth S.

Hop on the tahini train! We’ve been experimenting in the kitchen with the latest culinary craze, tahini (rich sesame paste); and we’re using Tohum, a great organic heirloom golden tahini we sourced from Turkey. In this hands-on class, we'll make Tahini Butter Cookies, Tahini Banana Bread made with soft white whole wheat flour and black sesame seeds, and the Bakehouse's newest tahini creation, our tahini and chocolate Casbah Coffee Cake! 

You'll leave the BAKE! class with our recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, and all the delicious tahini treats you made in class.

In-person: We'll end the in-person class with a tasting of what we made and you'll go home with some great coupons.

A loaf rooted in age-old Jewish tradition and laden with symbolism, the challah we have come to know and love today is a braided or turban-shaped soft bread enriched with eggs, oil, and honey that was first made by Ashkenazi Jews in 15th-century Central Europe. The braiding was an adaptation from a local Teutonic solstice bread and its strands—resembling arms intertwined—came to symbolize love as well as truth, peace, creation, freedom, harmony, family connection, unity, and justice. The spiral turban shape, where there is no beginning or end, symbolizes continuity and the circularity of life. 

In this class, we will teach you to bake your own rich and soft challah bread from scratch. Together, we'll create a traditional six-stranded braid and a spiral turban studded with rum-soaked raisins. We'll demonstrate a seeded Moroccan braid, too. These gorgeous golden loaves, fresh from the oven, will be the highlight of any celebratory meal.

For more challah history, head to our blog and read: "Hurray for Holiday Challah!"

You’ll leave the BAKE! class with our recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, and the challah bread you made in class.

In-Person: We'll end the class with a tasting and you'll leave with dough to bake another loaf of challah bread at home, as well as some great coupons. You may want to bring a cooler and ice pack to class with you for storing your bake-at-home challah dough on the ride home if you are traveling more than an hour to attend.

Virtual: We’ll be showing you how to make three different types of challah. Depending on how much challah dough you want to make, you’ll have the option of making one, two, or all three loaves in class; just make sure to have the right amount of ingredients ready. We’ll provide recipes for single, double, and triple batches of challah dough, depending on what you decide to make.

What our guests have to say about this class:

So informative! Everything was explained thoroughly and in beginner language. I learned much more about bread baking in general, that will help. Can't wait to implement this new knowledge at home. —Julie W.

It exceeded my expectations! Super fun and informative and we got to eat so much challah! —Genesis V.

Truly a class! Informative, hands-on, fun, and so much packed in. True Zing value. It felt good to bake here. Thank you! —Jeff M.

In this hands-on class, we'll teach you how to make the Zingerman's Delicatessen recipe for really great chicken pot pies from scratch, including mixing and rolling the flaky pie crust, cooking and assembling the aromatic filling, and shaping the pies. Join in the hands-on fun and learn to make a classic comfort food. 

Our recipe will make 6 mini 5-inch pies! We'll also talk about how you can freeze them and bake them later.

You'll leave the BAKE! class with the recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, and the pot pies you made in class ready for baking or freezing. 

In-Person: We'll end class with a tasting of what we made and you'll go home with some great coupons.

What our guests have to say about this class:

I always make things into a big deal in my head, and this showed me it's not that difficult—just takes some planning! I can't wait to get home and bake/eat my pies, and I actually think I'll make them again! —Ellen H.

You can make your own fresh pasta at home! We’ll teach you how to make Egg Pasta Dough and turn it into noodles, as well as how to make and fill ravioli. We'll also demonstrate a simple Marinara Sauce and send you home with a batch to top all the pasta you make in class. These recipes and techniques can be the inspiration for all the pasta creations you can dream up at home.

You'll leave the BAKE! class with our recipes, the knowledge to recreate them at home, and the pasta and sauce you made in class.

In-Person:  We'll end class with a pasta tasting and you'll go home with some great coupons.

Virtual: To make the best pasta, having a hand-cranked pasta machine or the appropriate attachments for a stand mixer will be extremely helpful and is highly recommended.

What our guests have to say about this class:

It was nice to see just how easy it can be to make pasta. —Andy G.

I'll certainly be making pasta at home now. Needed to take this class so I knew what pasta dough should feel and look like. — Helen P.

Informative, hands-on, just really fun! I can't wait to do this with my grandkids! My favorite class to date! —Claudia D.

Authentic—love the history and background presented
Thorough—ingredients and methods well-taught
Variety—different ways to prepare and customize
I am going to pull out my long-dormant pasta machine and have a pasta party. —Leigh H.