Fancy learning some versatile festive baking recipes that can be enjoyed by everyone, over the holidays – even if youre gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan?

Join Jo Pratt, author of The Flexible Baker, for a festive-inspired baking class where youll learn how to make a variety of delicious, adaptable bakes – both sweet and savoury – that suit all dietary needs without compromising on flavour.

Youll pick up tips on adapting classic bakes and experimenting with alternative, everyday ingredients. With Jos enthusiasm and expertise, this class promises to spark creativity and confidence, making your seasonal baking more inclusive, fun, and utterly delicious!

She’ll draw from the recipes featured in her cookbook,The Flexible Baker. which will be available for purchase and signing on the day.

Recipes likely to be on the menu:

• Sweet Onion and Blue Cheese Wreath
• Pistachio, Apricot and Chocolate Biscotti
• Festive Almond, Olive Oil and Orange Cake
• Spiced Chocolate Star Biscuits

Whats included:

• Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
• Apron and all of the equipment required
• A recipe pack for you to take home after your class
• All ingredients provided and weighed out in advance for you
• Lunch of your own making to enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshments
• 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items
• We do all the washing up!

Jo Prattis a regular face here at Divertimenti Cookery School as our culinary director and class teacher. Shes also a best selling cookbook author, food stylist and presenter. Jo creates inspirational recipes, all with achievable results for the home cook. Shes published numerous cookbooks with her latest series of flexible cookbooks very much focusing on offering flexible and practical recipe solutions that fit around the demands and challenges of modern life including dietary requirements or lifestyle choices.

At the outset of her career, Jo gained a huge amount of knowledge, skill and expertise from many years of working alongside hugely talented restaurant chefs, including the late Gary Rhodes, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and John Torode, working on their books, tv shows, advertising campaigns and live cookery demonstrations.

Nowadays when shes not at Divertimenti Cookery School or writing books, youll often find her presenting recipes online, on TV, working with various food brands, on stage performing live cookery demonstrations and hosting cookery workshops.