The scent of cinnamon, warm bread, and pumpkin warms the air as the children eagerly push together to peek at their creations. They lay napkins and forks along the family-style table and rush back to the oven to grab the treats that look as if they were pulled from the pages of Bon Appétit.
Patricia Tamminga opened Patricia’s Table, a space for children’s cooking classes, in June of 2014. Patricia’s Table focuses on using local, sustainable foods while teaching children how to navigate the kitchen and create treats themselves.
Tamminga grew up in the kitchen, with her grandmother and mother cooking from scratch every night.
“After college I went to culinary school and worked in a kitchen in Houston for a little bit and loved it”
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People where it's their first time are shown around and what to do. It depends on the specific class, whether there’s a lot of demonstration or we jump right in. We try to do as much hands on as possible so that people can recreate it at home. For example in our cookie classes, they make everything themselves so that they can go through the entire process. Then at home they can make the bags and color the icing.”
More advanced classes such as cake sculpting or airbrushing, meet at the store too.
“There’s a club called Capital Confectioners Cake Club that meets at our store. They are home backers and and pastry chefs. We host events like a cake show called “That Takes the Cake” on February 25th and 26th. It’s one of the largest events in the world, and we attract people from all over the world.”
Barton’s favorite items to bake are her mother’s cookies that she has modified over the years.
“It’s so fun to take simple ingredients and be able to make something that is artistic and interesting.” No matter your skill level, from burning cookies to airbrushing wedding cakes, Make it Sweet provides classes to improve your skills as a baker and create something