Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate with Nick Malgieri

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate with Nick Malgieri

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and homemade chocolate treats are a prefect way to celebrate! Learn some easy ways to make some impressive chocolate desserts that don’t take all day to prepare.

What You'll Learn:

Versatile Truffes: Silky truffles flavored with Cognac and dark rum, or a variety of other flavors

Torta Divina: A flourless chocolate cake scented with a hint of orange

Swiss Chocolate Sandwich Cookies: Crumbly shortbread bases and milk chocolate filling

Chocolate Mascarpone Tart with Almond Crunch

About Pastry Chef Nick Malgieri

Nick Malgieri, former Executive Pastry Chef at Windows on the World,  is a 1996 inductee into Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America.  He has written 12 cookbooks and is the recipient of IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award and the James Beard Foundation cookbook award.

In  1998 and 1999, he was voted one of the ten best pastry chefs in America  by Chocolatier and Pastry Art and Design magazines. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he apprenticed in Switzerland and was subsequently employed at the Hotel de Paris and the Sporting Club in  Monte Carlo and at the Reserve de Beaulieu in France. Malgieri began teaching in the New School Culinary Arts Program in 1979 and in 1981 became chairman of its Baking Department. He developed and taught  the professional baking curriculum for the New York Restaurant School  and authored the baking section of the Restaurant School’s textbook. 

Currently, Malgieri directs the baking program at the Institute of Culinary Education  (formerly Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School) and frequently serves as a guest teacher at many cooking schools. Since 1985, he has appeared  at culinary events throughout North America, and at the Smithsonian  Institution.

Malgieri  has appeared on local television throughout the United States, as well  as on all the national morning shows. Other television credits include Chef du Jour, Cook’s Choice, Bakers Dozen, Cooking Live, and Sara’s Secrets of the Food Network and appearances with Julia Child on Baking with Julia,  as well as with Martha Stewart. He also appeared with Vincent  Schiavelli in the PBS series The Chefs of Cucina Amore.

Class Duration:  4 hours

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