I heard you were coming so I baked a cake! with Miriam Rubin

When company comes, especially last minute, we might panic not knowing how best to host them. A homemade cake would be lovely (you may ponder) but who has the time? You do. Chef Miriam will demo three quick cakes that are as uncomplicated as they are delicious. Served with a made-in-minutes sauce or freshly whipped cream, each is a fantastic treat. Your guests will love you.

Included in the class will be a delightfully dense pound cake, crunchy with vanilla sugar, needing no fancy mixing, a simple cinnamon coffee cake that's served warm from the pan, and for very special last-minute occasions, a flourless chocolate almond cake that comes together in minutes. Serve it with a cloud of freshly whipped cream and everyone will swoon. Miriam will also share two sauces you’ll want to have in your back pocket.

Class menu to include:

• Double Vanilla Pound Cake
• Cinnamon-Walnut Pan Cake
• Deep-Chocolate and Almond Flourless Cake (gluten-free)
• Blueberry-Raspberry Sauce
• Superb Chocolate Sauce

This demonstration class (plus cake) is limited to ten people.

About Miriam Rubin:

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Miriam was the first woman in the kitchens of NYC's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. She's a former food editor of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her first cookbook, Grains, was published in 1995. For nine years, she wrote a food and garden column "Miriam's Garden" for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has contributed features to their food pages for about two decades.

Her work has appeared in Prevention, Organic Gardening, Redbook, Working Woman, Working Mother and Woman's Day. She was line-editor for Gil Marks' Encyclopedia of Jewish Food and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Appalachia and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink Vol. 2. She’s Americanized several cookbooks and reworked and Americanized British recipes for websites.

Her book, Tomatoes, grew out of a love of planting and devouring a favorite vegetable (fruit). She presented on the book at the Harvest Festival at Monticello and at Beard on Books at the Beard House. Miriam and her husband have recently relocated to the Hudson Valley from Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware and cookbook purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.