Baking Workshops
Workshop Descriptions
Muddy Fork offers online workshops and in-person workshops in artisan bread and pastry making. Â
Our in-person workshops take place in our bakery, using our wood-fired brick oven, and include a pizza lunch made by the participants. Workshops are limited to 10 people, and the cost is $95 per person. Participants follow the whole process, from mixing dough to shaping to baking, and usually run from 10 am to about 5 pm.
Our online workshops offer you the chance to follow the artisan baking process from your home kitchen, learning how to get great results using your own equipment and oven. Participants pick up ingredients ahead of the class (we ship too!) and put in a few active hours over a day or more. Workshops are limited to 12 households and the cost is $69 per household, and there is plenty of time for discussion, asking questions, and getting to know enthusiastic bakers from across the country.
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Artisan Breads from Home
Learn how to make crusty, sourdough loaves! We will show you how to feed and care for sourdough starter, mix dough, form loaves, slash and bake. We’ll talk about the flours we use, and what qualities to look for in a good bread flour.
Artisan Bread
Ancient & Whole Grains
In this companion class to our Artisan Breads class, follow our sourdough process from feeding and maintaining starter, to mixing, shaping, slashing and baking, as we adapt it to stone-milled whole and ancient grains.
Ancient & Whole Grains
German-Style Soft Pretzels​
An authentic German Soft Pretzel has a soft and fat belly in the middle, crisp thin arms, a deep reddish-brown shine, and that intensely savory pretzel flavor that only comes from a dip in a real lye solution.
German-Style Soft Pretzels
Croissant Making
Learn how to make professional-level croissants! We’ll share our recipe for dough and walk you through the process of layering the butter and dough, cutting, shaping and baking flaky croissants.
Croissant Making
Sourdough Beyond Bread
Learn to make some breakfast and brunch favorites using your sourdough starter – without all the time it takes to bake bread. We’ll make English muffins and scones using sourdough to give them flavor, while using other leaveners to give them lift. If you’ve been wondering what to do with sourdough starter discard, this is the class for you.
Sourdough Beyond Bread
Holiday Baking
Learn to make one versatile sweet dough and shape it into three holiday favorites from around the world: challah, babka and Greek Cristopsomos. We’ll talk about choosing and using add-ins such as fruit, chocolate, spices and nuts so you can customize your bread throughout the year.
Holiday Baking
Bagel Making
A freshly boiled and baked bagel is one of the great pleasures in life. We will learn about the flours and techniques required to mix a strong bagel dough, the traditional shaping methods, and boiling, seeding and baking a great bagel.
Bagel Making
Sourdough Beyond Bread
Learn to incorporate delicious and nutritious seeds into your sourdough bread. We’ll learn about soaking seeds ahead of mixing dough, sprouting grains, and the changes these additions make to your bread. We’ll practice shaping loaves with water on your hands and rolling the outside of your loaves in a heavy coating of seeds.
Seeded Sourdough Bread
Holiday Baking
Learn to make one versatile sweet dough and shape it into three holiday favorites from around the world: challah, babka and Greek Cristopsomos. We’ll talk about choosing and using add-ins such as fruit, chocolate, spices and nuts so you can customize your bread throughout the year.
Pick up ingredients ahead of the class (we can ship too), then follow along from home step-by-step with owner, baker and experienced teacher Eric Schedler. Interact with Eric and the other participants throughout the day of the class, as we make three decorative holiday breads. There will be ample time for discussion and asking questions. To participate with Zoom, you just need any computer or smartphone connected to the internet. We will have one active period the evening before to mix the starter, and 3 active periods of 45 – 60 minutes each on workshop day, broken up by time for the dough to rise.
Holiday Baking
Testimonials
Word of mouth and lots of happy faces (and bellies!) are secrets for our popular workshops!
“This course summed up many years of trial and error amateur baking into 5 days”
– Jeff
I was so excited to find the Muddy Fork baking course. I dream of owning my own bakery and wanted to get a glimpse of what that might feel like. Taking this course was just what I needed. Eric is a great teacher!
– Deena
I feel much more confident in myself as a baker, and I understand artisan bread in a whole new way.