AUGUST 30, 2025: Corn Cakes Workshop

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

Join us for a 4 hour workshop on baking with corn! This corn cake workshop will equip you with gluten intolerance friendly, highly nutritious, and delicious recipes! 

Bring a partner and go home with knowledge built over thousands of years through the cultivation of this beautiful, sacred crop. You will learn 3 corn cake techniques highlighting Barton Springs Mill cornmeal: Hopi Blue, Bloody Butcher, and Yellow corn. 

Things to look forward to: 

• Learn the extensive history and culinary uses of corn in baking rooted in indigenous communities throughout the Americas

• Bake off one of your cake sponges and take home an exclusive BSM corn cake-mix 

• Decorate a cake in class with seasonal fruit & locally foraged botanicals!

• Tour the mill with our Education team

• Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount

Whether you are looking to supplement your knowledge of baking or just want to try something new, this class is for you.

Coffee and cake slices will be provided for class!

BYOB is fine by us for participants 21+ 🥂 

About your instructor Ariana Diaz:
Ariana Diaz is a local baker and pastry chef at Este. She highlights her family origins and climate consciousness through a small scale cake business focused on locally foraged botanicals, Mexican flavors, and Jewish baking traditions. Ariana’s work is rooted in years of food access organizing and garden-to-table creations featuring local growing spaces such as the Festival Beach Food Forest, Nixta Taqueria Garden, and Urban Roots Farm. You can find Ariana vending across town through a mutual-aid focused pop up called Sana Sana Bake Club or teaching classes to the next generation of citizen scientists!

Class Policies:

TICKETS ARE FINAL SALE, NON-REFUNDABLE, and NON-TRANSFERABLE TO OTHER CLASSES. You may transfer tickets to another person to attend in your place - simply have them check in under the original name used to purchase the ticket(s).

By purchasing tickets to attend one of our classes, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release. 

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 hair net that effectively restraints all hair, including mustaches, goatees, and any other facial hair. Close-toed shoes are required for entering any part of our facility. No exceptions. 

In keeping with the 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 to notify you of a canceled class.