If you’re an avid home-baker or new in the kitchen, this baking workshop with Erika Bruce, owner of Pittsburgh bakery Le Beau Gateau, is for you! You’ll learn how to make pate-a-choux puffs and a simple chocolate sauce. From there you’ll learn how to fill the puffs with ice cream and serve the perfect Valentine’s day dessert! Participants will taste their creations in class and leave with the knowledge of how to recreate this classic treat on their own. 

This will be an in-person class. Chatham University’s current policy requires COVID-19 vaccinations for all students participating in face-to-face classes or campus activities. Additionally, the current policy states that mask-wearing is required indoors.

Refunds will be issued up to 48 hours before the class.

Chatham Alumni receive a 10% discount! Use code ALUMNI at checkout.

Instructor: Erika Bruce

After working for years as a pastry chef in both bakeries and restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and Boston, Erika embarked on a 20-year career developing recipes, writing about the process, and appearing as a regular cast member on cooking shows. Most of her work can be found in Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and Milk Street Magazines, and she can been seen on episodes ofAmerica’s Test Kitchen and Milk Street TV. She also worked as a food stylist before launching her wedding cake business, Le Beau Gateau. After relocating to Pittsburgh and raising her two young children, she’s ready to re-launch her baking business, this time with a focus on sustainability and community outreach. Her most recent stint preparing meals for 412 Food Rescue’s Good Food Project has been an important reminder of the power of food to do good.