Holiday How-To's

All class descriptions are located below the schedule.

Reservations and pre-payment are required for all classes
For reservations call 989-652-0450

Class Descriptions

Springerle Cookies
Learn the old German art of springerle making and take a dozen home. Springerle is an anise flavored cookie imprinted with a mold for a beautiful picture. These cookies are old-time favorites made during the holidays at Zehnder’s and look nice on a cookie tray or as a gift.

Gingerbread Train
All aboard to decorate your own Gingerbread Train. Our bakers will show you step-by-step directions. Included in your class fee is an assembled gingerbread train, candy and frosting for decorating.

Decorating Holiday Cookies
Decorate three of our most popular sugar cookies...
Santa Face, Christmas Tree and Snowman Face. Learn the techniques used by our professionals. Class members will decorate six large cookies to take home.
Included are two decorating tips, pastry bag and spatula. Cookie cutters are available for purchase in our Foodstore.

Dressing Up Your Holiday Table
Learn from experts how to decorate your table for the holidays including fancy napkin folding ideas. You will take home 4 holiday linen napkins and many decorating tips.

Fondant Icing Cookie Decorating
Learn how to make and decorate with Fondant Icing on an extra large sugar cookie
(7 1/2 inch), you will make a tree and an ornament cookie to take home and you will also take home one large cookie cutter.

Mini Dessert Plate
Our culinary staff will show you how to make a colorful dessert plate consisting of three cream puff swans, fresh fruit tarts with custard and chocolate cherry mice to take home on a holiday glass plate.

Stollen Coffeecake
Our bread artist will teach you Zehnder’s signature stollen coffee cake made into a Christmas Tree shape. This is great for your holiday table or it makes a unique Christmas gift. Take home your coffee cake at the end of your class. While your coffee cake is baking,
Executive Chef John Zehnder will be giving baking and cooking tips and answering questions you may have along with signing his cookbooks.

Cream Puff Tree
Our Pastry Chefs will show you step-by-step directions on how to assemble a custard cream puff tree. You will take home a completed tree.

German Chocolate Cookies
Our Bakery Supervisor, Diane Selich, will teach you how to make her award-winning cookies that have been published in Taste of Home Magazine. A chocolate chip cookie with coconut topped with German Chocolate frosting and drizzled with chocolate. Take home a dozen cookies.

Reservations and pre-payment are required for all classes
For reservations or for more information call 800-863-7999, ext. 450