Let’s Get Cook’in
Workshop and Seminar
Got a passion for food?
Dreaming about starting your own business?
This workshop is for you!
Spend the day with Karla. Ask questions. Get answers. Stock up on practical tips from someone who’s been there – done that! Karla Seidita started Karla’s Great Cheesecakes right at her kitchen table with $30.
For twenty years her products were sought after by upscale caterers, restaurants and trendy shops. The QVC shopping network featured her cookbook and Kathleen Mathews put her on ABC – TV.
Seminar Highlights:
Getting started. (Business basics - raising start up money, company structures, book keeping, taxes, insurance, employees, leases and more.)
Word of mouth is great but publicity is better. (Let others praise your product - advertising, press releases and word of mouth know how.)
The ultimate question - can you or can’t you cook out of your house? (Health regulations simplified.)
Build a web site and watch the world will beat a path to your door. (Get great web site for a few dollars a month.)
To get sales, you have to give stuff away! (Using free samples to your best advantage.)
Target your market for maximum sales. (Finding your customers and keep them.)
Selling to the big guys (Slotting fees and other means of extortion plus how to collect when they don’t pay – which the big guys often don’t.)
Getting your just desserts. (Pricing for profits.)
Recognizing success. (How to know when you’ve made it!)
And so much more it will make your head spin!
Bring a friend. Bring your business partner. Bring your spouse. You’ll leave energized and ready to make your product a house hold world. Includes snacks, lunch, seminar materials and a take home goodie bag.
Let’s Get Cook’in Workshop and Seminar $65.00 per person 11AM-3PM
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Cheesecake Wedding Cake
Master Class
If you’re a wedding cake pro, a hobby baker or just insatiably curious, pop into Karla’s kitchen and check out her techniques for this most demanding, most coveted wedding dessert guaranteed to insure marital bliss.
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can construct a tiered wedding cake from delicate cheesecake. Decorate with cream cheese frosting. Karla will share her yummy, fool proof recipe with you. Price and market your cheesecake wedding cakes for maximum profit. Go creative. Stand out from the crowd with easy, inexpensive tricks that look like a million. Learn refrigeration, freezing and handling of perishable cakes.
Partner with caterers, restaurants and wedding professionals who have more on their minds than your perishable cake.
Reduce decorating stress using Karla’s work ahead – work smart methods. Eliminate pick up and delivery headaches with practical advice you can really use.
Boost you sales with trade shows and wedding shows – even host your own show and maximize your profits!
You just won’t believe that anything so difficult can become so easy (and profitable!) once Karla fills you in on her trade secrets!!
Tips a-plenty!
Demo and some hands on work. Very limited class size.
Includes lunch, snacks, recipes, work sheets, contacts for supplies and wedding shows plus plenty of samples!
They’ll be lots of time to shop for Karla’s Cooking Made Easy products and even a goodie bag to take home!
Cheesecake Wedding Cake Master Class $225.00 11AM-3PM
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Ladies Who Lunch Cooking Class
Get your lunch bunch together and pop on over to Cheesecake Farms for dicing, chopping and whipping up treats. A fun get together and refreshing change of pace from the ordinary lunch out. A wonderful team building event. Great fun for a shower or birthday party.
Relax in the kitchen with friends or co-workers. Enjoy yummy food, great companionship and a leisurely afternoon at Cheesecake Farms.
Get pro tips a-plenty and learn Karla’s “Cooking Made Easy ™” techniques. You’ll be cooking better with much less effort.
Come play in Karla’s Kitchen for a hands on cooking class with the emphasis on fresh, local ingredients.
Class includes lunch, snacks, recipes and a goodie bag to take home. There’ll be plenty of time to shop for Karla’s Cooking Made Easy products, too!
Scheduled by appointment - Mondays thru Saturdays 11AM-3PM.
Group choice of a seasonal gourmet, low calorie or vegetarian menu. Minimum 4 people.
Ladies Who Lunch Cooking Class $95.00 per person
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Desperate For Desserts
Poach, bake and broil. Torch and flambe.
Learn basic pastry bag technique.
Make chocolate ganache, chocolate curls and icing swirls.
You'll be rolling ravishing roulades and glazing glamorous tarts (or whatever we're cooking up) before the day ends. You name it - we'll be doing it! Every class has a seasonal and slightly different focus. Amaze yourself. Impress your friends. Take home your treasures.
Class includes lunch, snacks, seasonal recipes and a take home goodie bag. Time to shop for Karla's Cooking Made Easy (tm) products, too!
Desperate For Desserts $125.00 11AM-3PM
seasonal emphasis
Chocolate * Christmas * Valentine's Day * Summertime Treats
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Sunday Brunch
Cooking Class
Instead of waiting on line for a table at your local bistro, come play in Karla’s kitchen. Spend a leisurely Sunday in the country and whip up a fantastic brunch! Fun for families, singles, girls day out and brunch buddies.
Dice, chop and sauté your day away in a relaxing, no stress, hands on cooking class. Seasonal menu concentrating on fresh, local ingredients. Let Karla share her healthy preparation techniques with you but rest assured she leaves plenty of room for a gooey dessert. Dine on your creations and take home the leftovers.
Learn new kitchen tricks. Perfect old techniques. Loads of fun!
Vegetarian? No problem!! We’ll do an all vegetarian cooking class and feast just for you!
Children are most heartedly welcome. Up to age eight, children will need the close supervision of one parent or guardian apart from the class. They can join us when it comes time to sit down for brunch. Children nine and over are welcome in the kitchen with parent or guardian supervision.
Just get together a group of four to six. E mail or phone for a reservation. Have several dates in mind in case your first choice is already taken. We'll do the rest!
Sunday Brunch Cooking Class $95.00 per person Minimum 4
Children under the age of eight are free but brunch class fee is required of everyone nine and over.
Includes brunch, snacks, recipes, a take home goodie bag and all the leftovers.
By reservation, only 11AM-3PM Choose prefix gourmet or vegetarian seasonal menu.
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Kitchen Magic
Become a kitchen magician.
Get better with the basics so you can become the kind of cook who doesn’t need recipes.
Learn how to substitute ingredients and eyeball measurements.
Decipher recipe jargon and pick up on secret assumptions they make.
Discover pantry secrets for getting a meal together fast when there’s nothing in the house to eat. Create gourmet meals out of garden fresh ingredients. Unexpected guests drop over? No problem. Whip up a snack out of thin air! Transform family favorites into healthier fare without pain, effort or a family revolt. Bring you favorite recipes to class and we’ll update them together. We’ll cut out fat and trim calories. We’ll add fiber, pack in a power house of nutrients and keep all the good taste and flavor – without your family ever finding out!
Class includes lunch, snacks, recipes, work sheets and a take home goodie bag.
Classroom and hands on kitchen experience.
Kitchen Magic $125.00 11AM-3PM
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Yule Log
(Buche de Noel)
It just wouldn’t be the holidays without that classic French Christmas dessert - a darling little Yule log.
Under Karla’s watchful eyes, you’ll bake up a tender cake and learn to roll it into a carefree log. When it’s cool, you’ll fill and frost it then trim it with your own hand made meringue mushrooms. Nothing could be grander than this decadent little treat.
Karla made hundreds of these logs each Christmas at her bakery and she’ll be sharing the recipe. Learn her professional tricks and discover her trade secrets.
You’ll impress the heck out of everybody and your friends will be pea green with envy at your confectionery skill!
Demonstration and hands on class. Each student will take home a completed log.
Class includes all materials, ingredients, lunch, snacks and a take home goodie bag. There’ll be plenty of time for shopping, too. Karla’s Cooking Made Easy products will be available. So what are you waiting for?
Yule Log Class $95.00 11AM – 3PM
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Home Made Candies, Treats and Goodies from the Holiday Kitchen
Do you yearn for grandma’s holiday kitchen where she whipped up treats a- plenty to indulge her favorite grand child (you!) ?
Leave those jammed shopping malls and commercial candies to others. Your Christmas deserves home made goodies made with love stirred into every bite.
Step into Karla’s kitchen and recreate the treats that MADE the holidays for you. Elegant home made chocolates, spiced and sugared nuts, creamy fudge, chewy jelly candies – and yummy butter toffee. (I’m in heaven all ready!)
Take in the fragrance of the holidays as you bustle around the country kitchen. Nibble the seasonal treats. Leave with arm loads of festively packaged gifts ready give or tuck into stockings. You’ll be utterly amazed at what you can create and how much satisfaction you’ll feel.
Home Made Candies, Treats and Goodies from the Holiday Kitchen $95.00 11AM-3PM
Class includes lunch, snacks, recipes and a take home goodie bag plus you get to take home your creations!
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Hand Made Filled Chocolate Easter Eggs
Remember the home made chocolate eggs that Grandma tucked into your Easter basket?
Nothing is yummier the old fashioned flavor of chewy coconut, butter creme or rich fruit filling hiding inside hand formed chocolates!
In this class you'll learn to fashion melted chocolate into a chocolate shell and make luscious home made fillings.
Think you're too short on time to make home Easter eggs? Karla's professional tricks will help your turn pantry staples into instant fillings!
Impress your friends and family with your confectionery skill (just don't tell them how easy they were). Make elegant gifts. With Karla's simple techniques, you'll make these quick as a bunny!!
You'll never buy mass produced Easter candy again!
Making Filled Easter Egg Class $95.00 11AM-3PM
Includes all materials, ingredients, reusuable poly mold, recipes, snacks, lunch and a goodie bag plus you get to take home your creations!
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Let's Get Ready For Easter
Parts 1 & 2
In a hurry?
Short on time?
Want to do it all !!!!!
Try Karla's "All in One Classes."
Come play in Karla's kitchen and when the day is done, you'll have tons of new skills and a bag full of goodies to take home!
Karla combines the same skills that she teaches in the regular classes into a fun filled day of chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate (plus a little butter lamb thrown in for good measure!)
Quick like a bunny you'll be making hand made gifts and yummy treats that will amaze everyone - even you!
So what are you waiting for?
Let's get into the kitchen!
Classes include all materials, molds, recipes, snacks, lunch and a take home goodie bag
Get Ready For Easter-Part 1
(3 classes in 1) $95.00
Fashion elegant chocolate pate into a treasure trove of festive shapes.
Learn to swirl chocolate for trendy treats that beg to be nibbled.
Create oh-so-cute "hard boiled eggs" out of white chocolate.
You'll be amazed at what you can do - and soooooo yummy, too!
Get Ready For Easter-Part 2
(3 classes in 1) $95.00
Make old fashioned, filled Easter eggs stuffed with gorgeously decadent fillings.
Remember grandma's home made peanut butter cups? You can make them just like grandma - only better and easier!
Even make a lamb out of butter for your Easter table!!
Check out the other classes for more description of the skills in these 3 in 1 classes
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