Create gorgeous Christmas cookies to adorn your festive table or give as gifts. Use fondant to top your sugar cookies, then get creative with gold paint and edible sugar balls. You will also be taught how to use silicone moulds to create bows and other embellishments. $35 payable to Tutor at the session for kit which includes 6 large decorated cookies (2 baubles, 1 xmas tree, 1 wreath, 1 lg snowflake, 1 gold star plus 6 mini cookies (3 stars and 3 snowflakes).

The regions of Italy from north to south, all celebrate Christmas with their own unique recipes - some savoury, some sweet. Rosa will recreate her favourite Christmas recipes.

Carnevale is a colourful and extravagant time of the year in Italy and the food reflects this in abundance! Roberto will prepare some traditional Carnevale recipes such as frittelle, crostoli and crespelle just to name a few, to be shared by all. "A carnevale, ogni scherzo vale" means "anything goes at carnival time - jokes and fun are allowed!". So come along and join Roberto for this fun, entertaining and delicious cooking class you cannot afford to miss!

Roberto is excited to present food from his home Italian region, Veneto. Treviso is where Roberto comes from and he would like to share with his WEA Family, some recipes that remind him so much of his childhood home and his Italian traditions. Pasticcio al radicchio, risotto ai porcini and tiramisu are going to be shared in this Northern Italian Cooking class. This delicious selection will be accompanied with some amazing wine from Tomich Wines. An evening not to be missed.

If you have always wanted to learn how to make sourdough bread but feel a bit intimidated with the idea of creating or looking after a 'starter', or if you are a bit concerned about the complexity or time involved, this course will demystify all this for you. This Sourdough Bread Baking course uses simple, tried and true method of sourdough bread baking that is as easy or easier than typical methods using commercial yeast. And it will produce some of the most flavourful and heart warming bread you will ever taste. Students will need to bring along some materials. You may wish to contact our enrolment office 82231979 before enrolling.

Join Rosa on a tour of Venice - one wine bar (bacari) at a time and share a drink and an authentic snack (cicchetti). Having a bite to eat with a glass of wine "all ombra" (in the shade of San Marco) is a very old tradition maintained even today in the back streets of this extraordinary city.

Join Ilenia, Italian pastry chef from Rome, in this awesome masterclass, where you can learn some of her secret recipes. Perfect cream puffs with chantilly zabaione filling, mono-portion shortbread tarts with ricotta and chocolate cream, crostatine (tarts filled with pistachio frangipane and raspberries). Learn how to make these classic Italian pastries and what you can't eat during class you can take home. A perfect accompaniment with your favourite coffee or tea.

This home cheesemaking and tasting session is brought to you by passionate cheese maker and foodie, Kris Lloyd Artisan and founder of Woodside Cheese Wrights in the Adelaide Hills. Each student will make their own cheese, having the process explained step by step, and given instructions of what to do and how to care for the cheese until ready to eat. You will get to sample 5 Woodside cheeses and be provided with goat feta and various herbs and spices to create your own marinated jar to take home. (Course fee covers majority of materials however students will need to bring along some items). A session not to be missed.

Learning to make cultured foods through the fermentation process. Cultured foods provide a way of preserving foods without artificial preservatives, while providing the body with probiotics, enzymes and vitamins to support gut health. Recent research shows that gut health is linked to mood-related disorders, so learning to make and include cultured foods in our daily diet can support our holistic well-being.This workshop is a hands-on process, where participants will learn to make different cultured foods, sauerkraut, kefir & milk yoghurt, yoghurt cheese & apple cider vinegar. Taste-testing is included in the class. Please note that dairy milk is used and may not be suitable for you. Students are required to bring along some of the ingredients and you may wish to contact our Enrolment Office for further details prior to enrolling.

In this class it is assumed that you are a complete novice when it comes to pasta making. You will make several rounds of pasta dough to make you confident, then move on to tagliatelle, ravioli and tortellini with flavoured pasta. To finish, we will make two varieties of hand-shaped pasta. You will need to bring your own pasta machine or let tutor know if you don't have one.