Come and unleash your inner baker on our Introduction to Bread Baking Day!
Our expert Teachers will lead you on a floury journey to master the basics and fundamentals of creating great bread in the home.

In our NEW AgriFood Centre at Plumpton College, with state-of-the-art purpose-built kitchens, you will make, bake and take your goods home all with the knowledge and recipes for further bakes!
We will make a Classic mixed grain Tin loaf, a delicious Irish Soda bread An old- fashioned Cottage loaf, some burger buns and an amazing fruit loaf!

Our hands-on Italian baking workshop will put you through your paces as a baker!

Taking place in our NEW AgriFood Centre here at Plumpton College, with state-of-the-art purpose-built kitchens, learning how to work with high hydration doughs to create a wonderful open structured crumb

You will learn how to make:

• a Classic Ciabatta,
• a rosemary and sea salt Focaccia
• Some delicious Grissini bread sticks
• Twice baked biscotti and absolutely delicious Amaretti biscuits

We guarantee you will leave the classroom saying “Bella Cottura”   

Ask any Italian Pizza chef the secret to good Pizza! They will tell you “it’s all about the base”

Come and join our expert tutors in unlocking the fundamentals of creating amazing Pizza!

You will learn 3 styles of pizza, a classic thin and crispy Margarita, a sour dough deep pan pizza

And a wonderful Calzone

You will also make some garlic dough balls and some thin and crispy Grissini bread sticks!

Spend time with our butchery team creating your own Sausage Meat from Plumpton Pork, cutting from the bone.

Then use your Pork Sausage meat with our Bakery Team in our Brand New Teaching Bakery to create exceptional Sausage Rolls and the best Sussex Scotch Eggs.

Two day course , learning to hand build a variety of Bakery Products to understand the Science behind what we do and what takes place in your mixer during a mixing process.

Utilising this knowledge to understand what common mistakes happen in a bakery , how we would identify them and how they may be fixed .

Examples of sunken cakes , flat breads, tough pastry and soggy bottoms and how these issues can be overcome.

Join our expert Tutors on a romantic journey into Wild yeasted baking

On this two-day adventure you will learn the fundamentals on how to create, maintain and most importantly how to bake with your own starter in the home environment!

You will make a classic country sourdough loaf, 100% rye sourdough loaf, rye crackers

Wild yeasted focaccia and Pizza

We will delve onto the the dark side make some wild yeasted doughnuts, pancakes and crumpets

 Look at the grains and flours you can use and the importance of fermented food in the diet and how you can fit wild yeasted baking into the busiest of schedules

Come and have that Zen moment with baking   

Every body loves a sweet treat!

Join our expert tutors at our NEW AgriFood Centre here at Plumpton College, with state-of-the-art purpose-built kitchens, for a hands on workshop. 

You will learn how to make a classic French staple, a buttery brioche loaf.

A Eastern European Chocolate babka loaf

Moving closer to home will also be sharing the knowledge of some classic Chelsea buns and iced finger buns.

Moving on to a classic Nordic delight, beautiful Cinnamon buns.

You will learn all the techniques to make these in the home environment

The smell of freshly baked pastries coming out of the oven, the aroma drifting up the stairs, what a way to start the day!

This hands-on workshop at our NEW AgriFood Centre here at Plumpton College, with state-of-the-art purpose-built kitchens, will teach you the art of laminating dough.

• Beautiful buttery layers in enriched dough.
• You will make a Croissant dough and a Danish pastery dough.
• Learn how to create the layers, one you have laminated your doughs
• You will make Croissant, pan au chocolate and Pan au raisin
• We will look at various shapes and styles of Danish pastry

Learn how to make Crème Patisserie and various glazes to finish your pastries with!

In the baking world there is nothing more fulfilling than making bread from wheat that is locally grown!

Taking place in our NEW AgriFood Centre here at Plumpton College, with state-of-the-art purpose-built kitchens, our core belief is the Sustainability of all food starts in the field where our food is grown.

On this full day we will look at the benefits of using freshly milled flour, the advantages of knowing where your wheat is grown, the health benefits and how to make bread from the flour.

We will also look at the benefits of Heritage grains and how to use them in your everyday baking

Whether it is sweet or savoury.