Paris: Croissant Baking Class with Pastry Chef

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Free cancellationExcellent quality

1/19

Duration3h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Make Croissants in Paris, Then Take Them Home

You'll spend a few hours learning to make croissants from a pastry chef in a Paris studio, working hands-on through mixing, folding and shaping. The class includes all ingredients and equipment, a tasting of fresh pastries while yours bake, and a box of your own croissants plus digital recipes to take home. Small groups keep the pace manageable and the instruction personal.

Step-by-step itinerary

Croissant baking hands-on class

Introduction to French pastry making
Learn about ingredients and measurements
Practice folding and rolling dough
Laminate and shape croissant dough
Bake croissants to golden perfection
Savour croissants and share tips

The Experience

The chef doesn't wait for you to settle in before she starts talking about lamination. She's already got the dough out, and she's showing someone how to feel the difference between a fold that's too tight and one that's just right. You're standing at a wooden counter in a Paris baking studio, and within five minutes you understand why croissant-making isn't something you can learn from a video. She hands you a piece of dough and says, "Now you try" — and suddenly your hands know things your brain didn't know it needed to know.

The croissant baking class moves at the pace of actual baking, which means there's time to watch, to ask questions, to mess up a fold and have the chef show you how to fix it without making you feel rushed. You'll work through the whole process — mixing, folding, shaping those iconic crescents — and the chef walks you through the reasoning behind each step, not just the mechanics. Why does the dough need to rest? What happens if you rush the lamination? She answers the questions people actually ask instead of the ones she's rehearsed. While your croissants are in the oven, you taste fresh pastries made earlier, drink coffee or tea, and talk to the other people in the class. It's small enough that you're not anonymous, but not so small it feels awkward.

When your croissants come out golden and flaky, you pack them into a box to take with you. You also get printed recipes so you can attempt this at home, though you'll probably find yourself back in Paris first. The whole thing takes a few hours, and you leave with the specific knowledge of how to do something that feels impossible until you've done it once.

What’s included

All ingredients and baking equipment are provided.
You'll receive digital recipes to take home so you can recreate the croissants yourself.
The class includes a tasting of fresh pastries made during the session, plus coffee and tea.
At the end, you pack your own croissants into a box to take away.

Good to know

Pets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Studio Pâtisserie

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn a specific skill — how to actually make croissants — rather than just taste them, and you'd rather do it with someone who knows the technique than figure it out alone in your kitchen.