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Growing, Baking and Decorating with Flowers - a Milk Street baking class with Bronwen Wyatt and Megan Bayha

Growing, Baking & Decorating with Flowers

Name: Growing, Baking %26 Decorating with Flowers
Start: 2024-09-19
End: 2024-09-19
Location: Online

Calling all gardeners and cake enthusiasts: don’t miss this Milk Street livestream workshop with Bronwen Wyatt and Megan Bayha on growing, sourcing and decorating with flowers!

These passionate instructors want you to forget fondant and set aside the sprinkles, as their favorite way to decorate a cake is with fresh flowers!

Wyatt of Bayou Saint Cake and Bayha of Baby T-Rex Farms are friends, collaborators and your instructors at this Milk Street livestream workshop where you’ll get to pick the brains of a great baker and a professional flower farmer.

You’ll learn important distinctions between flowers that are edible versus those that are nontoxic, and hear why you should never use grocery store flowers on cakes.

Bronwen will share her top ten favorite edible flowers for baked goods and Megan will get into the nitty-gritty details of growing flowers, including her favorite sources for seeds, containers, potting soil and more.

Not a gardener or grower? No problem!

Megan and Bronwen will share their network of smaller, family-run farms all over the country where you can find flowers that are safe and beautiful for decorating. However manner you get your flowers, you’ll also need to know how to clean, store and prepare them for use on cakes.

Then, it’s time to bake.

Bronwen will walk you through her tender, versatile Olive Oil Cake with Whipped Cream Frosting. You’ll learn why the temperature is key when applying your crumb coat and final coat. Then, with your cake perfectly frosted, it’s time to turn your new baking and floral knowledge into one stunning finished product.

Bronwen will cover why she’d be happy using pansies for birthday cakes, but would turn to zinnias for a wedding cake. She’ll teach you her characteristic swoop technique and encourage you to play around with the shape and texture of your frosting. Most importantly, you’ll get Bronwen and Megan’s permission to try and try again until you have a cake you love!

Length of Class: 2 hours

What’s on the Menu:

Olive Oil Cake with Whipped Cream Frosting
How to Grow, Source and Decorate with Flowers

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Note: This is a Milk Street Small-Group Workshop which is capped at just 25 attendees — a much smaller size than their regular livestream classes.

About Bronwen Wyatt and Megan Bayha:

Bronwen Wyatt is a pastry chef and owner of Bayou Saint Cake. Known for her whimsical layer cakes garnished with edible flowers, Wyatt is constantly inspired by the Louisiana seasons, using local produce to create inventive, contemporary sweets.

Megan Bayha started Baby T-Rex Farms in 2017, an urban flower farm in New Orleans. Growing up as a city kid, she knew she wanted to start an urban farm someday to help connect people in cities to growing food, nature, and seasons. She enjoys working with chefs to bring seasonal edible flowers and herbs to their creations.