French Tarts Workshop

A French tarts class featuring pâte sucrée, frangipane, fruit gel, and glazes.



2 hours Location Mission District Class size 1 to 3 guests   $195
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For the baking enthusiast, an almond frangipane tart with a pectin-based blueberry gel layer topped with fresh blueberries and a knockout shiny glaze that would look pride of place in any bakery display.
You’ll make the tart pictured, from scratch, and learn all the component recipes. We’ll start class learning to roll perfect sheets of dough and line French-style perforated tart rings. We cover making the dough along with proper techniques to give you a dough that will hold its shape and not shrink or puff during baking, giving you a buttery, crispy, and perfectly thin crust.
We’ll continue class learning to make the almond frangipane filling along with the pectin-based blueberry gel and finish with our super shiny glaze. After putting everything together and getting your tarts nestled in their bakery boxes, we can celebrate with a tasting of your instructor's finished tart.
This class provides the fundamentals that will allow you to create any flavor of these style tarts. Change out the fruits, the nuts, and the toppings, and your options are limitless. All materials, recipes, and take-home boxes provided. Class is fully hands-on and limited to just three students.
Allergies or food concerns? Please reach out before signing up to confirm if we can meet your requirements.

Upcoming dates for French Tarts Workshop

Times are Los Angeles time. Dates and prices as of 14 Nov 2026, 3:44pm; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

1 upcoming date between 28 Nov 2026 and 28 Nov 2026.

  • Sat, Nov 28 2026, 10:30am-12:30pm
What you'll get
All recipes and handouts, a tasting of your instructors tart and your own finished tart to take home in one of our provided bakery boxes.
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Knowledge required
Beginners are welcome. Please note that our classes are for adults only.
What to bring
We have everything provided for you.
Location

Mission District, CA

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  • 5/5 from Karina Breyer, attended Oct 2026: It was such an amazing experience! The class was just my parents and I and Richard was just the best! It was so organized, clean, and simplified, the tarts came out insanely delicious, and so much fun!!
  • 5/5 from Mark, attended Oct 2026: My wife, our 19 year old daughter? And I did this class together. I would never have done it on my own. I have no baking experience, skills, or interest. (Well, I do have an interest now.). It was great. Learned a lot. Had fun. And plan to try to do our best to take what we learned and make a large batch for our big Thanksgiving dinner. Bottom line, we were 3 amateurs with varying degrees of of interest and lived it. But with a pro like this teaching (you can just tell) I think every level of experience would find this time well spent. We all loved it. Great part of a day celebrating our daughter’s birthday.
  • 5/5 from Kevin Durrance, attended Jul 2026: Richard's classes are fun and hands-on. He's very organized and does a lot of pre-work, so you get the most out of your time. He explains and demonstates every step and then has you do it yourself, and sends you home with printed recipes. For the tart class, I took home a finished tart, a batch of dough and a container of neutral glaze to make another tart at home. He's also quite witty which makes the class even more enjoyable.
Your teacher

meatwheatmilkandsugar
meatwheatmilkandsugar

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Richard has been teaching culinary classes in the Bay Area for over 20 years. He was the founder and head chef of Baking Arts and now teaches small group classes from his home in San Francisco.
Richard's focus is to demystify cooking and make it accessible and exciting for home chefs. He focuses on foundational cooking techniques that will allow you to flawlessly recreate his class recipes at home.

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