Baked@number17

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Fifteen years ago I fell in love with sourdough, and I have been refining my craft ever since, through bakery work, classes, and more failed loaves than I care to admit. Now I teach from my home kitchen in Hampstead, sharing everything I know so you can go home and bake bread that genuinely tastes extraordinary

Learn to bake with sourdough

Small, hands-on classes that teach you how to bake with a sourdough starter

Sourdough Foundation Class

Sourdough Foundation Class

The perfect starting point. Learn to make and maintain a starter, understand fermentation, and bake your first open crumb loaf to take home.

Pizza and Focaccia

Pizza and Focaccia

Learn from an Italian how make light, airy focaccia and authentic pizza dough from scratch using sourdough starter. A fun class for all levels

Bagels

Bagels

Master the art of the perfect bagel. Learn the boil and bake technique and go home with a batch of chewy, golden bagels you made yourself

Read what participants say

Patrick Gaeton

The class was absolutely fantastic and would recommend to anyone! Michela is brilliant and offers a fantastic class that really sets you up for success, with a starter and instructions, along with videos to help. Michela came to our flat and was a pleasure to have over, and has left us with lots of dough so that we can share with friends. We can’... + more

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"Loved it! The class was great fun, informative, easy to follow and practical. We went home with enough dough for two beautiful sourdough loaves and some starter to keep us baking for the foreseeable future. I am doing another course with Michela in a couple of weeks." - Anna

"Michela might be a bread lover's best kept secret. You could do the fancy, expensive workshops at the big brands, or you could be welcomed into Michela's home for a truly informative, engaging and personal experience. I walked away as a complete novice with so much knowledge. Only four of us in total, so really friendly and hands on. Absolutely outstanding." - Thomasin

"I really enjoyed Michela's sourdough foundation class. Very hands-on, with clear explanations at every stage. What I particularly liked was the individual attention everyone received. Fun, informative, and I went home with a lot of tasty bread and dough to bake at home." - Steve