Saturday, November 6, 10:00 am
Members $50, guests $60

When it comes to pastries, pies, and cakes, many people run straight for…the bakery. And even the most seasoned home bakers, those who ordinarily toss off layer cakes and muffins with ease, quake when faced with fallen soufflés, cracked cake tops, and soggy crusts. Cookbook author, teacher, consultant, and recipe developer Carole Walter is the answer to the prayers of both beginning and skilled bakers. As Publisher’s Weekly stated, “If anyone can dissolve the pastry fears that crimp the dessert repertoire of many home bakers, it’s Walter.” Agreed Catherine Tillman in Saveur, “She’s a teacher who knows how unanswered questions can lead to disaster.” This month at her baking workshop, Walter will leave no cake stuck to the pan, no cookie burnt at the edges, no question unanswered.

Walter’s latest cookbook, Great Cookies: Secrets to Sensational Sweets, which won the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Award in the category of “Bread, Baking and Other Sweets,” rounds off her trilogy of lucid, encyclopedic baking cookbooks, including Great Pies & Tarts and the James Beard Foundation Award–winning Great Cakes. Walter has used every tablespoon of her 35 years of professional baking and teaching experience in writing these tomes, each of which is practically a complete course in and of itself. She is a Certified Culinary Professional and a member of the IACP and the American Institute of Food and Wine, a past president and active member of the New York Association of Cooking Teachers, a consultant to restaurant and food businesses, and she served as chocolatier chef for the Chocolatier Dessert School in New Jersey. Walter has also studied with renowned pastry chefs in Austria, Denmark, France, and Italy. It’s no surprise that Jacques Pépin called her “a credit to her craft,” and Arthur Schwartz labeled her his “own personal baking guru.”