Courses

Courses

With us you will find courses on all kinds of topics from the kitchen and bakery. Whether you are a fan of sweet or savory, we offer the right program for everyone. In our course locations in Adliswil, just 20 minutes from Zurich, and in Berner Matte, you will learn everything about chocolate, dessert, bread and ice cream. We look forward to your visit!

Welcome to miniSchoggi

You can learn to make and decorate cakes professionally, make fine macarons and bake bread as if it were baked by a baker. We offer a wide variety of different courses from the dessert, chocolate and baking area. We are particularly concerned about the quality of the courses and the knowledge imparted. Therefore, all our courses are led by professionals.

Bread courses are conducted by a professional baker, chocolate, baking, cake, aperitif and patisserie courses are each led by a confectioner-confectioner and a food technologist is responsible for the bean to bar course. In this way, we guarantee the transfer of expertise and tips and tricks that come directly from the bakery or confectionery.

The courses always take place in our course locations in Adliswil or Bern. Since the individual support of the participants is very important to us, we do not offer online courses or recipe books. Instead, we show in detail how the individual production steps work, and if questions arise, they can be asked at any time and answered immediately. Trying things out for yourself is also very important to us, because the best way to learn is to be able to copy what is shown right away. In this way, you also notice right away if something is still unclear or if something does not work as desired. Then our course leader is always on hand and can help with advice and action.

Of course, you will receive all recipes and very detailed instructions for all creations. It is important to us to also provide you with optimal support when creating the learned delicacies at home. Thus, more complicated manufacturing processes are explained step by step in our course programs and shown with pictures. So nothing can go wrong at home!

In our courses we often work with high quality products from the corresponding field, which are rather difficult to find. Through our store in Adliswil and our online store, we give you access to professional working utensils and special ingredients. For example, you can purchase from us a tempering device and couverture, glucose, and praline molds from the professional sector. With over 3500 products, there are the right tools and ingredients from each course in our store, so you can bake and make all creations at home.

In our sales store in Adliswil you can also get advice. There is almost always a specialist present who can help you find the right utensils or ingredients for your dream creation.

We look forward to your visit to us for a course - whether spontaneous or planned well in advance.

Our course offer at a glance

Chocolates

miniSchoggi began as a manufacturer of personalized chocolates. So it is not surprising that one of the first courses was a praline course. In the meantime we offer four different courses around the making of chocolates. The praline atelier is perfect for a leisurely afternoon with friends or family. Here you can create your own chocolates and decorate them, then wrap them up nicely and take them home.

If you want to learn a little more about pralines and thus also learn, for example, how to make the praline fillings, you are in good hands in the praline basic course.

For those who, after the basic course, would also like to learn how to make their own hollow bodies as well as dressed and cut pralines, the advanced praline course is the right choice.

Before Christmas we also offer the Christmas praline course, there are some chocolates, as well as a pretty Samichlausstiefel made of chocolate.

Chocolate casting courses

If you want to cast your own great chocolate figures, you'll be in good hands in the Easter Bunny Casting Course before Easter and the Samichlaus Casting Course before Christmas. There, either a bunny and some praline Easter eggs or a pretty chocolate Santa Claus and a Samichlaus boot are made.

At our high heel casting course you may cast your own chocolate high heel and decorate it nobly.

In addition, four delicious chocolate bars and a sweet heart can be poured at our chocolate bar course.

Chocolate courses

For all those who want to deal more intensively with the processing of chocolate, we offer the specialized courses. At the couverture tempering course, you will learn how to temper all types of couverture using various techniques and thus prepare them for the molding of a wide variety of chocolate products.

At the Bean to Bar course you will create your very own dream chocolate, the path to this starts with the selection of the cocoa bean and ends with the finished couverturedrops or chocolate bars.

Macaron course

Macarons are among the most sophisticated pastries in French confectionery. At the macaron course, you will learn how the airy treats nevertheless work flawlessly. Here, smooth shells with perfect little feet as well as light creams and delicious ganaches are combined into noble little treats

Ice cream course

The ice cream course is perfect for the summer! In the group, 22 different types of ice cream and sorbets are made and divided, so everyone can take home 22 cups of icy refreshment in addition to their course program with all the delicious creations.

Patisserie courses

If you are interested in the French Éclairs, the Choux or the St. Honoré cake, the Éclair & Pâte à Choux course is for you.

At our dessert course you will learn how to make panna cotta, lemon tartlets, sophisticated Williams pear desserts, crème brulée, lava cakes, semifreddos and apple strudel.

Cake specialty courses

The correct use of gelatine and the creation of some famous cakes as well as the professional insertion and layering will be the topic at the Cake Basic Course 1. You will make a Swedish cake, a Zug cherry cake, a truffles cake, a pineapple royal and a fruity yogurt cake.

On the basic cake course 2, what has been learned is expanded even further, and now somewhat more challenging cakes with crispy base, fruit jelly and mirror glaze as well as chocolate decorations are created. These include the hazelnut-caramel cake, the tiramisu cake, a fruity quark cake and a coconut-passion fruit cake.

In the Winter Magic Cake course, especially wintry creations are made and elaborately decorated. These include the fig and mulled wine cake, the orange and ginger cake, the chestnut cake and the apple and chai tea roulade.

Cake decorating courses

For beginners in decorating with fondant, we recommend the cake decorating course, in which a cake can be covered and decorated according to your own wishes.

If you would like to create noble flowers with buttercream, you are in good hands in the buttercream flower course, here you may refine your own cake with buttercream flowers and work on cupcakes with Russian piping nozzles.

If you want to learn how to work with an airbrush, our airbrush course is the right place for you. There you will practice freehand spraying as well as the use of stencils.

Modeling courses

Learn how to create beautiful, lifelike roses and peonies from sugar paste and tie them together properly at our sugar flower classes.

From time to time we also offer figure or animal modeling courses by guest instructors with us. These determine their program themselves in each case.

Baking courses

At our Cakes & Tartes course, a crispy apple and almond tart, a Linzertorte, a Bündner Nusstorte, a streusel tart, a fruity apricot chocolate cake and a gluten-free Marroni Cake are baked and nobly decorated.

Before Christmas we bake together in the Christmas cookies class Sablé spirals, cinnamon stars, vanilla crescents, chocolate chip cookies, florentines and nine other types of cookies.

Bread courses

For bread baking novices, the special bread course is perfect. There, different cereals are created with different doughs, leavening agents and baking techniques.

At the sourdough beginners' course you will learn how to raise, care for and process an aromatic sourdough.

After the braid class, where various recipes are braided into two-, three- and even five-strand braids as well as dough animals, you will be perfectly prepared for the next Sunday morning or brunch.

For fans of the French art of baking, we offer our Brioches & Baguettes course, where white flour and spelt baguettes as well as filled and unfilled brioches are baked.

Apéro courses

At our quick and easy aperitif course, focaccia, flûtes, parmesan cookies, salted almonds, Maultaschen, crispy crackers and chicken balls are made with a racy mango salsa - perfect for spontaneous visitors. There are so many different aperitif possibilities and yet you often lack the time and therefore have to make it quick and easy. In our class, we'll show you just that! Apéro variations that are quick and easy and still super tasty.

Cupcake course

At our cupcake course, great decorations are created with fondant and royal icing, depending on the season. So you will learn suitable decorations for winter and Christmas, Halloween, Easter or even for any occasion in the year.

Cookie Course

The focus of the cookie course is on decorating with royal icing. Using different colors, consistencies and techniques, elegant decorations are sprayed onto the cookies, in each case to match the season.

With these courses, everyone is sure to find a suitable topic! We would be very pleased if we could welcome you at one of our next courses!