What you'll learn
- 🎂 Elevate your baking profession by mastering an extensive range of essential recipes and advanced decoration techniques.
- 🍰 Embrace CakeNuvo's "principle of balance" to design cakes and desserts that are true culinary works of art.
- 🥧 Discover the art of creating diverse Tarte Tatins with modern and captivating designs and presentations.
- 🍏 Experiment with various fruits like apples, pears, bananas, pineapples, and peaches to craft exquisite Tarte Tatins.
- 🥮 Assemble Tarte Tatin as either a large tart or individual desserts, offering a variety of shapes and sizes.
- 🌟 Apply essential baking techniques to ensure your Tarts are consistently delicious and aesthetically pleasing.
- 🍬 Perfectly caramelize fruits efficiently for delightful flavor and appearance every time.
- 🌿 Customize Tarte Tatin recipes to suit any palate, incorporating bold and unexpected flavors with diverse spices.
- 🍽️ Transform your Tarte Tatin into elegant fine-dining plated desserts with a choice of four stunning designs.
- 👨🍳 Present large Tarte Tatin in five extraordinary and captivating ways.
- 🎨 Create six kinds of distinctive and mouthwatering Tart decorations.
- 🍭 Master the craft of working with caramel and isomalt for eye-catching sugar decorations.
- 🥠 Utilize puff pastry in creating irresistibly tasty palmier cookies and flavorful twists.
- 🍪 Use Tuile batter to bake crunchy cookies of various shapes, providing delightful texture.
Course Content
First Off - Let's Have Some FUN!
2 lecturesWatch a short and exciting promo movie about this course, to fully grasp how we're going to transform the Tarte Tatin into a true culinary masterpiece.
Watch this lesson to get a brief intro to the Udemy Video Player. It'll help you to quickly learn the player's most critical features so you can enjoy this course the most.
So You Want to Make a Great Tart...
3 lecturesIn this lecture Irit presents a broad overview of what this course covers, and provides an introduction to the Tarte Tatin, which is one of the most respected and history-rich recipes in the world. She also explains how the recipes and decoration skills you'll learn can be used to create amazing Tarte Tatins and how they are useful for other baking projects as well.
Before making a Tarte Tatin you need to make many important decisions. You need to choose between many kinds of fruits, spices, types of dough, and decoration elements. You also need to decide whether to make a large tarte or personal plated desserts. In this lecture Irit walks you through the various issues you need to consider when making these decisions, so you end up with tarts that are a perfect fit for your event or setup.
Making Caramel and Caramelizing
2 lecturesIn this lecture Irit explains about the three different types caramel you’ll make in this course. She also covers important safety guidelines you should pay attention to when working with hot caramel. Irit then shows you how to make the base caramel recipe. She also elaborates on the important topic of flavoring, and shows you how to enhance the basic caramel flavor by adding interesting spices and herbs, such as vanilla, cinnamon and rosemary. Adjusting the base caramel recipe helps you to create unique flavor combinations that make your Tarte Tatin really stand out.
In this lecture Irit discusses the different kinds of fruits that we'll use to make a Tarte Tatin: soft fruits (bananas, pineapples and peaches) and firm fruits (such as apples or pears). She also explains the trade-offs and factors you should consider when picking the fruits for your tart, and explains how to pick the best fruits at the store. She then dives into the process of caramelizing firm fruits in butter and sugar before using them to assemble the tart. This process makes the fruits softer and moister, as well as enhances their taste with caramel flavors. Note that you need to watch this lecture only if you're making your Tarte Tatin using firm fruits.
Assembling your Tarts
2 lecturesIn this lecture Irit demonstrates how to assemble a Tarte Tatin using soft fruits that are not caramelized. First, you'll learn how to assemble a large 8” tart, which can serve 8-12 guests. Then Irit will guide you through assembling the tart as a much smaller individual dessert. Both of these serving options are truly beautiful and extremely yummy! You'll learn how to choose dough for your tart, and how to work with puff pastry dough to cover it. All in all you'll learn how to assemble 3 kinds of tarts in this lecture: a large apple tart, a large pear tart, and finally you'll also assemble individual tarts. Remember that you need to watch this lecture only if you chose firm fruits (such as apples or pears) as the basis for your tart.
In this lecture you'll learn the advantages of using soft fruits for your tarts, and discover how to assemble them using such fruits. You'll work on three different tarts: pineapples, peaches and bananas, which are all unique, unconventional and boldly flavored. On top of that, you'll explore pairing the fruits with interesting spices and herbs, that are infused into the caramel. This really elevates the flavor of your tarts, and creates extraordinary and delicious cakes and desserts. Finally you'll work with puff pastry dough to cover your tarts. Similar to the previous lecture, here Irit shows how to assemble the tarts as large 8" tarts or as personal desserts.
Making Puff Pastry Treats & Decorations
3 lecturesPuff pastry dough is great for many kinds of pastries, cakes and tarts. In this course we use it to cover the tarts we're making, but we also use it to create some really delicious treats. During plating and serving we use these puff pastry treats to decorate our culinary creations. In this lecture Irit presents the two kinds of puff pastry treats we'll work on: the flavored twists and the Palmier cookies.
Flavored puff pastry twists are easy to make and extremely yummy treats that come together quickly and are simply divine. In this lecture you'll learn how to make them, and explore flavoring them using many kinds of spices, such as cinnamon, vanilla and even cocoa powder. You can use the techniques you'll learn here to come up with other flavors of your own, so your twists are always unique and interesting.
Palmier cookie is a delicious, yummy and crunchy culinary wonder. A cookie that you always want to get back to. On top of that they are the perfect treat for almost any occasion. It feels so fancy to place them on a cookie tray and serve with an afternoon tea. As you'll discover in this lecture, despite their incredible flavor, these cookies are super easy to make and take no more than 5 minutes of preparation. Irit will also let you in on important tips and tricks that will help you to bake perfect Palmier cookies consistently!
Creating Tuile Decorations
2 lecturesTuiles are thin crisp cookies that can be made in many shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common: they are all based on Tuile Batter . In this lecture Irit teaches a super quick and delicious Tuile batter recipe, that you can use for many decorations and desserts.
A beautiful, crisp Tuile cookie can be one of the most versatile decorations in your repertoire. Though the classic Tuile shape is the curved form, the possibilities of working with Tuiles are really endless. You can use them to make all sorts of desserts, such as delicious Mille-Feuille desserts or crunchy Tuile bowls filled with chocolate mousse. Tuiles can be used to make many different cookies and garnishes. In this lecture Irit demonstrates how to use Tuile batter to create spoon-shaped cookies, that are really cute and unique. You can use them to add height and wow-factor to any cake or dessert. We'll use the spoons later to decorate some of our plated tarts.
The Magic of Sugar Decorations
2 lecturesCaramel decorations are somewhat sophisticated, and are probably not something you’d make everyday. However if you feel like making something really beautiful yet relatively easy and quick, these pretty decorations are a great way to make your edible creations look stunning! In this lecture Irit demonstrates simple and effective techniques that you can use to create many kinds of intriguing caramel objects. The skills you'll learn offer tremendous flexibility and allow you to express our creativity any way we want.
Isomalt is a sugar substitute that is made of sugar beets. It’s not as sweet as ordinary sugar and has less calories. Pastry chefs prefer it because it doesn’t crystallize as quickly as sugar, a fact that makes it much easier to use. In this lecture you'll discover how to color the isomalt and properly bake it, and how to create stunning sugar sheets in any color you want. You can break these sheets into gorgeous decorations that can be used to garnish many kinds of cakes and desserts.
Almost There... Final Preps & Baking the Tarts
3 lecturesIn this lecture Irit walks you through making caramel ganache. While traditionally ganache is made of white or dark chocolate and cream, in this recipe we’ll also add caramel to the mixture. As expected, the resulting ganache has a distinct caramel flavor, and it is in fact a very useful recipe. As an example, you can use use caramel ganache to fill macarons, and to make addictive and delicious chocolate candies. As you'll see later, Irit makes use of caramel ganache while decorating some of the large tarts and individual plated desserts.
A Quenelle is an elegant, football-shaped scoop that is often made of ice cream. Garnishing your desserts with quenelles is a simple way to add a restaurant-y touch and a whole lot of sophistication. In this lecture Irit demonstrates a quick and simple way to shape ice cream into quenelles, that only takes a few minutes once you get the hand of it. You can use this exact same technique to make quenelles out of mousse and whipped cream.
After all the hard work you’ve done preparing and assembling the tarts, you absolutely want to make sure that you bake them right so they taste and look perfect! Figuring out the proper baking time is critical to the success of the tart, and since no 2 ovens are alike you'll need to figure out the precise baking time in your oven. In this lecture Irit walks you through the ins and outs of baking the tarts and uncovers critical tips and tricks that will help you while baking. She also explains all the signs you need to pay attention to, so your tarts turn out perfect each and every time!
Plating & Serving Your Tarts
4 lecturesLarge Tarte Tatins are elegant, and are fairly quick and easy to make. This makes them the perfect choice when you host a group of friends for a lunch or dinner, on a relatively short notice. In this lecture Irit guides you through the decoration and serving of no less than five large 8" tarts! You'll discover how to use all the decoration elements you made to create stunning presentations for the large tarts. Obviously, you can use these designs as is, or as a starting point and inspiration for your own unique presentations.
In this lecture Irit walks you through creating 4 elegant, artistic and sophisticated plated desserts, using the individual tarts and the decoration elements that you've made. You'll also learn how to pay attention to CakeNuvo's Principle of Balance, which should always guide you when designing new cakes and desserts. The plated personal tarts you'll make in this lesson are so impressive that they can be easily a part of the menu of a respected fine-dining restaurant!
BONUS - Making Great Puff Pastry Dough From Scratch
2 lecturesPuff pastry is one of the greatest inventions in baking, however it is one of those recipes that people are afraid or reluctant to make themselves from scratch. In this lecture you'll understand the basic components of puff pastry, and discover some of the trade-offs associated with choosing ingredients for the dough.
In this lecture you'll get a detailed, step-by-step guidance of the preparation process of puff pastry dough. Learn how to make the lean dough and the butter block, and follow Irit through 6 cycles of rolling and folding. Throughout the process you'll explore many secrets, tips and tricks, all of which necessary to master this amazing dough.
Wrapping up!
1 lectureBefore she says goodbye Irit takes a moment to review and summarize what you learned and accomplished in this course. First and foremost you learned how to transform the traditional upside down apple Tarte Tatin into a much more exciting, modern and intriguing culinary creation! This was done by creating new primary and secondary flavors for the tart, by creating variations of the basic appearance of the tart (different sizes and shapes), and finally by introducing stunning and artistic presentations for the tart, which make use of various sugar decorations, puff pastry treats, tuile elements and fruits.
Course Materials
1 lectureHere you can download all course materials for "Mastering the Tart Tatin":
- Class Companion - 31 pages eBook with important info, tips and tricks
- Project Timeline - a bird's-eye view of the preparation process for the towers
- Recipe Book - all recipes used in this course
- Metric Conversion Guides - US/EU metric conversion tables
- Food Cost Calculator - Large Tarts
- Food Cost Calculator - Personal Tarts
- Food Cost Calculator - Decorations
- Tools & Ingredients - a PDF document that lists the tools and materials used in this course
Next Steps and Bonus
1 lectureDescription
🎉 Elevate your baking career by mastering an extensive range of essential recipes and learning sophisticated decoration skills. 🌟
- Develop culinary artistry by applying CakeNuvo's "principle of balance" to create cakes and desserts that are true masterpieces. 🍰
- Explore creativity with Tart Tatins by employing modern designs and intriguing presentations. 🥧
- Discover the magic of using various fruits like apples, pears, bananas, pineapples, and peaches to make delightful Tarte Tatins. 🍏🍌🍑
- Craft your Tarte Tatins into a large tart or individual dessert, experimenting with different shapes and sizes. 🥮
- Master essential baking techniques to ensure your Tarts always taste delicious and look stunning. 🌟
- Perfect the art of caramelizing fruits consistently and efficiently. 🍮
- Customize your Tarte Tatin recipes with bold, unexpected flavors using a variety of spices. 🌶️🍯
- Serve your Tarte Tatins as exquisite fine-dining styled plated desserts, featuring 4 stunning designs to choose from. 🍽️
- Create 5 magnificent presentations of large Tarte Tatin that captivate the senses. 🎨
- Unleash your creativity with 6 unique and delicious decorations for your tarts. 🍥
- Experiment with caramel and isomalt to craft beautiful sugar decorations. 🍭
- Excite your taste buds with mouthwatering puff pastry creations like flaky palmier cookies and flavorful twists. 🥐
- Work with Tuile batter to bake crunchy cookies in a variety of enticing shapes. 🍪
Course Reviews
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😀 Joly Natalya
Amazing course, very well explain in detail.
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😀 Liwali Ali
Cette enseignante a une bonne maitrise de son travail, c’est une opportunité pour moi de suivre ces cours et ses explications étapes par étapes. Elle a une bonne éloquence.
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😀 Lary Bird
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😀 Mohamed Abdalah
good job thanks
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😀 Rozita Azizi
Your amazon store is not available. would you please email me the link to buy the tuile?
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😀 Julie Gale
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😀 FrauVau
Es ist unfassbar, wie man Deserts kreieren kann. Ich würde 10 Punkte vergeben.
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😀 Huzefa Ajmerwala
I always love cooking and making desserts and I wanted a teacher who could explain me the thing I wanted to make and everything of it, so this teacher is an excellent teacher who simplifies each and every step and makes us understand precisely.
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😀 Vipin Sabharwal
very well explained... cheers..
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😀 Shehrebanu Badri
It was according to my liking and passion which is "baking". My family really loved eating this amazing dessert.😊
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😀 Tasneem abdulkader gadawala
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😀 Silvia Santiago
EXPLANATIONS ARE CLEAR AND SIMPLE.
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😀 Michele O’Key
I am so happy I found this course! The instructor teaching style is infectious and I can't wait to make some tartin's :)
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😀 Andrej Kirin
Really professional from A-Z
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😀 Betty
Instructor gave helpful and clear explanations. Stunning visual presentations. Very enjoyable. Excellent course!
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😀 María Gracia Gómes Reis
Amazing. I really learn and enjoy the lessons
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😀 Chandra Lal
This class is really brilliant!!! I feel like I'm in a 5 star restaurant having a personal lesson! Irit gives a course par excellence with so much attention to detail there is no way you will produce anything less than a masterpiece if you follow her instructions. Every Tarte Tatin she makes is a tour de force - a real culinary masterpiece. It was also incredibly helpful to see exactly how the tarts should look at each stage of their production - ie to know exactly how the Tarte Tatin should appear when it is fully cooked as opposed to 45% cooked and to see exactly how caramel should look when it is perfectly cooked. This is a course that is a must if you are interested in patisserie and want to produce masterpieces.
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😀 Trelene
Just beginning but I love the teachers passion and charisma.
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😀 Theresa Johnson
It was an interesting and thoughtful insight into baking the tarte tatin and coming up with neat shapes and sizes for the tarts and their decorations.
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grate
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😀 Britney Marler
Yes. I'm really excited to learn so many different techniques, that are nevertheless all focused on creating one dessert. Very well-conceptualized.
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😀 Greg O'Hare
Irit does an excellent job presenting materials, provides tips, and summarizes each session at the end. What I found most helpful is that she demonstrates under-cooked, cooked well, and over-cooked to give you a better understanding of what to look for. Irit also provides additional steps on what to do if you make some mistakes along the way. I've taken many, many courses on Udemy and from an instruction standpoint, this is one of the best courses I've ever taken. This course far surpassed my expectations and I can't wait to try out the recipes. The course material downloads are an awesome bonus too. Thanks, Irit! I'm also looking forward to taking more classes from Cake Nuvo.
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😀 Manjunath Sathyanarayan Achar
wonderful class and well organized
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😀 Philip Barnea
Clear, easy to understand and comprehensive instructions. Friendly
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😀 Lyn
She is very through and keeps you interested she has a lot of passion talking about her decorations
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😀 Cliff Trapp
Very inspiring and fun
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😀 Carol Clunie
shr is brilliant love her courses
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😀 Ellie Angelini
excited
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well explained
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😀 Judy Ali
Well taught. !!!!!
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😀 Yasko E
Update : Only complain I had before was that she didn't show how to make puff parties but, thanks to Irit, now it's a part of this class. There is a comprehensive section showing exactly that. I have no complaints about the class any longer. I highly recommend it to any curious bakers! Old comment: Just like her other classes, this class is fun and covers not only how to bake tarte tatin but also how to decorate them with variety of items including caramel and tuile cookies. Only complain I have is that she didn't go over how to make puff pastry and rather used a store bought. Despite that the class is well worth taking and there are lot to learn from it. Can't wait for her new classes!
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😀 Liduvina Sanchez
I am extremely impressed with this online course. The instructor's delivery is very strong. She is very knowledgeable. Her instructions include a lot of details and offers great tips and tricks. There is a ton of downloadable material which is very convenient. Overall I would highly recommend these online courses!
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😀 Bethterra
Very detailed explanation. Can't wait to taste the tart. The Palmieres look amazing, I will need to bake some today.
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😀 Susan Q
They had me at make perfect caramel consistently. I really appreciate how the instructor takes the time to really delve into the finer details. The basic skills can be used for so much more. It's really easy to follow and very straight forward. Great quality, professionally filmed presented and edited. A lot of work went into this and it shows. One of the better online courses I've seen. Way to go!!!
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😀 Natalie Aroma
the caramel tips are super and i love tart atten
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😀 Adele Bueno
Very ease to follow the instructions
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😀 Eyal Friedman
Very creative designs. The lessons are very detailed and easy to follow. Many serving ideas which can be used in other desserts or pastries. Highly recommended!
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😀 Frances
The tarte-tatin looks mouth watering and the instruction as to how to reach the result is extremely clear and encouraging. Aesthetically, the video is outstanding - just a pleasure to watch. I have tried caramel making in the past and it was not invariably a success so this lesson is just what I needed to avoid mistakes.
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😀 Penny Nexon
Four and a half stars! For me this is as close to perfect as it gets. This is definitely not your ordinary baking course! As a serious baking enthusiast I take online courses on a regular basis, but this is a first for me on Udemy. Mastering the tart tatin certainly seemed right up my alley, and boy I’m so glad I purchased it. The single most important thing I LOVE about this course is that you can start very simple, with a regular 8” apple tart tatin. You get a fantastic recipe, great techniques for caramelizing and assembly, and very useful baking tips that pretty much ensure your success every time you make this tart. Then when you have a bit more time you can progress to more and more complicated and intricate designs. As a next step you can learn how to make tart tatins using fruits other than apples, for example. When you’re ready to make more progress, follow the instructor to making some really amazing decorations, such as isomalt and caramel decorations. The final step that the course offers, which in my opinion is suited to more advanced bakers, offers the opportunity to learn how to make several stunning designs of plated tart tatins *desserts*, which is something that I personally never saw and think it’s quite unique and interesting. The instructor is really nice. It’s very obvious she loves what she does and very passionate about it. The instructions are clear and to the point, and the teaching style is really cool. By the way, the downloadable class materials alone are worth the price of the course. There are tons of them and I doubt that I’d ever have the time to read them all, but at a first glance they are VERY useful. Unlike other online courses I took that were dry and uninformative, this one offers tons of value, is fun to watch and is structured in a really clever way. Great job you guys!
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😀 Anat
I find this class so interesting and informative. It gives you the many options of how to make those beautiful tarts and the use of decorations that can be used for other delicious desserts that i am planning on making. Can't wait to see more!
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😀 Mary Hassett
Loved this. Inspired to learn more. Can't wait to get started now. I am already thinking of an occasion to wow my guests!
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😀 Vered Amar
This is a thorough course that takes you step by step to a sure success. The course systematically covers so many topics. Great artistic designs, yet when explained so well, everything is so easy. it is definitely a great value for money! Iloved it!!!
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😀 Tal
The course is well planned and presented in all aspects. The explanations are very detailed, the introduction helps you get in the process of making such complex desserts, and the instructor gives the confident that it is possible to make it on your own. It's also entertaining to watch even if your not going to make the desserts in the end, because it exposes you to all the ingredients and stages involved in the process of making such beautiful desserts.
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😀 Shirit Mor
I really enjoyed this class. lots of content, and very easy to watch. Looks like there so many new things i can learn, tarts,cookies,sugar decorations, you name it... I will easily watch this course several times. I also like the extra documents attached such as the recipe book and the class companion-Found it very useful.
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😀 Yael Amitai
The axplanations are very clear and the Tarte-tatine looks elegant, attractive and tasty.
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😀 Ofira Einstein
This is a fantastic class! Thanks to Irit's professional and didactic instructions it seems so simple and I'm absolutely ready to run to the kitchen to cut some apples…thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and for the opportunity to experience your magnificent art. I'm looking forward to join your other classes.
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😀 Alex Baltusch
Great course. Well explained, very practical approach and the basic Tart came out very well. Looking forward to try the more advanced parts of the course.
