Upper School Intersession 2025

Let’s cook breakfast together! In this class, students will create sweet and savory crepes, pancakes, made-to-order omelettes, and hot cocoa. No prior cooking experience required. Eat your culinary creations!

Let’s cook breakfast together! In this class, students will create sweet and savory crepes, pancakes, made-to-order omelettes, and hot cocoa. No prior cooking experience required. Eat your culinary creations!

Learn how to make laminated dough from scratch that can be used to make croissants and pain au chocolat. Fundamental skills will cover weighing ingredients, proper mixing methods, rolling doughs, forming pastries and baking.

*This class takes place OFF CAMPUS at Baking Arts in San Mateo. Transportation options include the CalTrain or driving (no Nueva van provided). This class is not suitable for students with nut allergies.

Tik Tok and Instagram has brought us visibility into so many different foods it is staggering, and many of them go viral. In this class you will learn how to make some fantastical viral foods that are sweeping the nation. You'll have the benefit of tested recipes and techniques from a local chef who offers many of these "viral" foods to local customers. In this class you'll learn how to make these viral sensations:
1. Spaghetti Donuts: Spaghetti that you can eat with your hands in the shape of a donut!
2. Tortillas Wraps: The quad method with a coupld of special cuts and folds that allows you to make a delicious snack or meal with just a tortilla and a few simple ingredients
3. Lemon Possets: An easy dessert with minimal ingredients, lemon possets blew up this spring and summer. Students will learn to make a basic fun & easy custard in aesthetically pleasing hollowed out lemon shells with just lemon juice, cream, sugar, zest & vanilla.