APRIL 13, 2024: Shortbread - Grain Tasting + Cookie Workshop

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2024

Time: 1p - 4p

Cost: $120 per single-entry ticket 

PLEASE READ ALL CLASS POLICIES AT THE BOTTOM OF CLASS DESCRIPTION BEFORE MAKING YOUR PURCHASE.

This workshop with Ashley Whitmore is designed to teach you creative and delicious ways to incorporate unique stone-milled grains into one of the most delicious cookies - shortbread! Shortbread is the perfect template for learning about pastry science, crumb structure, and how to highlight the flavors of single-varietal flours and botanical add-ins.

While shortbread may seem simple, there's actually quite a bit of chemistry and math that goes into achieving the right balance of structure and the classic melt-in-your-mouth texture of this buttery cookie. Ashley will teach you how to master her classic shortbread recipe, sharing all of the science behind fat ratios, protein percentages, and grain protein factors along the way. Additionally, you will learn how to adapt a standardized shortbread formula for unique add-ins like ancient grains, rye, whole-grain wheats, and flavor-boosting botanicals. Look forward to tailoring your shortbread recipe to taste by selecting your own flour additions and botanicals and topping with finishing elements like demerara sugar or glazes. You'll leave class with freshly baked shortbread and some dough to take home and bake off fresh at your leisure.

With a culinary degree, 10+ years of experience working in pastry programs in the U.S. and France, and years of culinary education experience, Ashley is an incredible resource for mastering foundational culinary and pastry techniques. She is also, as it happens, an absolute pleasure to be around! We hope you come to this shortbread workshop to learn more about making exceptional pastry with stone-ground flours.

This class is BYOB for participants 21+, so bring your favorite beverage if you so please. 

Things to look forward to:

• Have an opportunity to work with our own fresh grains and flours, grown organically and stone-milled onsite!
• Learn about the differences between store-bought and stone-milled flours
• Make and eat fresh shortbread cookies
• Tour the mill 
• Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount

By purchasing these class tickets, you acknowledge and agree to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release Form. Close-toed shoes and a head covering (such as a baseball cap) required for all classes.

Touring our facility requires that all participants adhere to health guidelines - all touring participants (included in ticket) will be required to remove most jewelry and piercings, and wear a beard net (if applicable) and/or hair net. Close-toed shoes are required for entering any part of our facility. 

In keeping with low COVID risk level in Travis County, masks are optional and up to personal discretion for this class. 

In the event of class cancellation, we will email you a week in advance to notify you of a canceled class.