Baking Course

Baking Course - Learn to Bake with Us

If you want to learn bread baking or just enjoy bread baking, why not join us for a baking afternoon? Once a month, we meet in the bakehouse and bake. We cater for complete beginners or people who want to get back to baking, refine what they are doing already or figure out where things might have gone wrong.

What You'll Experience

We bake sourdough, soda bread, yeast loaves, brioche and pastry. We can experiment with whatever you like. Focus on one thing or do it all. You bring home what you make, a stack of recipes to make more at home and a sourdough starter to keep you going. We'll also have lots of chat, tea and coffee and basically a good afternoon of working dough and making bread. Can be so therapeutic!!!

You also get a tool to keep you going - a bench scraper, a danish whisk or a scoring knife. They'll remind you to bake whenever you see them in your kitchen.

Course Details

Sunday afternoons 2-6pm in our Kilkenny bakehouse. Groups consist of no more than 6 people. We bake all afternoon and you take home what you made. We try and look at all sorts of baking: sourdough, yeast, soda, scones, treats etc. If you have a special interest we can also make that. The idea is that you get to bake and get familiar with how bread works. It's meant to be the start (or the rekindling) of your bread making journey!

2026 Dates

Select your preferred date above. We have courses running January through June, with second half dates announced later. There's also a Rising Course on 12th April for anyone who has been with us before and wants to bake again and/or move on to more complex baking.

Private Groups

If you have a group of four or more people, we can add another date to suit you - Sundays or Mondays work best. Just message us.

Important Details

The courses will only run with at least four people and booking/payment is due in full two weeks in advance. Always good fun!

Ring me with any questions: Josephine 086 8958538 or speltbaker@gmail.com