I can't wait to host you at my house and show you all the steps to make a simple but tasty pizza.I will tell you a few culinary secrets during the kneading and topping of the pizza. When the cooking is done, we will enjoy our pizza together with other dishes of Tuscan and Italian cuisine, concluding with the inevitable tiramisu!When you return home, you will have all the knowledge you need to cook a delicious pizza for your friends and family!About Cesarina Donatella: "I studied art and architecture. I like to experiment with different artistic techniques, from paper-mâché to ceramics, and cooking recipes, from making fresh pasta to crunchy pizza!".

Pizza cooking class in Florence

You can't visit Italy without trying at least one pasta dish... So, I'll teach you two!Warm up with the authentic Italian Aperitivo with prosecco and 'stuzzichini' and learn how to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand and how to prepare 2 pasta shapes from scratch. As the icing on the cake you'll learn the secrets of the iconic Italian dessert: Tiramisù.After this hands-on cooking class, enjoy what you’ve prepared for lunch or dinner with local wines and share your passion for the Italian cuisine as you make new friends.There’s no way to truly experience Italian culture other than a cooking workshop in a real local home.

Small group Pasta and Tiramisù class in Florence

Florence is a city full of history and charm, every street in its historic center displays wonderful works of art, and walking around you can enjoy its quiet and welcoming atmosphere. Florence also offers excellent cuisine, made up of simple but flavorful recipes. To enjoy it at its best, the ideal is to book a lunch or dinner or a cooking class at my home, I will teach you the secrets of my family, together we will prepare a complete menu from appetizer to dessert, or you can simply enjoy my dishes in my living room with a unique view of Florence, looking at Brunelleschi's dome and sipping a good glass of Chianti, ending with a "wow" tiramisu!

Cooking class with a view of Florence

We await you in the lemon house where the culinary experience of Florentine cuisine will remain in your heart. The lemon house of Villa Savonarola in the Antico Borgo di Pian dei Giullari, easily reached in a few minutes' drive from the historic center of Florence or by a long, healthy and fascinating scenic walk. If the season permits, lunch or dinner is served on the patio, from where you can admire beautiful sunsets. Our passion is genuine, km 0 products from our garden. The workshops we work with for sourcing meats and flours are historic stores, rich in tradition, culture and passion.During the fresh pasta cooking class we will tell you stories and anecdotes of tradition and lose ourselves in the magic of our garden.

Fresh pasta class in a lemon house on the hills of Florence

Come and taste dishes made in the tradition of my family. I offer you a particular cooking class, we will prepare together the crostoni that they made at the vinaino outside the city, gnocchi seasoned with garlic and the revised Pistocchi cioccolat cake. All accompanied by quality wine, coffee and water... I'll wait for you!

Cooking class with three Florentine recipes

Hands-on cooking class with 3 recipes (starter, pasta and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the recipes prepared during the class.

The goodness of Tuscan cuisine

Immersed in nature, in an ancient monastery, we will prepare together all the steps needed to make a good lasagna with a good ragout preparation and béchamel sauce. Next we will make one of the best-known and oldest recipes in Italian cuisine: tiramisu, a spoon dessert consisting of layers of ladyfinger cookies soaked in coffee and filled with a mascarpone-based cream.

To learn how to cook good Lasagna in Florence

I'll be waiting for you to prepare excellent vegetarian pasta dishes together, which you can repurpose in your dinners with friends, telling the stories of the different recipes: the crespelle of Caterina dè Medici, known as early as the 14th century, gnudi and ricotta and spinach ravioli with butter and sage.

Ricotta crepes, surprise ravioli and i'gnudi

In this cooking class you will learn the basic recipe for tiramisu and a thousand variations of it.For example, I will teach you the recipe for tiramisu with limoncello, pistachio or cantuccini or Bacio Perugina. We could prepare according to season the variant with strawberries or with Nutella.You'll discover it all when you arrive...I'll be waiting for you to make the basic tiramisu and then we'll make together different variations all to be tasted and consumed with an excellent vin santo or special sweet wine from Florence. You won't be able to leave with sweets alone then we will prepare together a first Florentine dish the penne strascicate accompanied by a good red wine...and a nice coffee!

Tiramisu and its variations: from limoncello to chocolate

Are you ready to get your hands in the dough and convene a unique day kneading breadsticks and bread just like my grandmother Otelia used to do?Step by step I will show you the various steps to make a good dough and give the shapes for a great breadstick, perfect as an appetizer along with many delicious DIY dips, and great to munch on between breaks.The fun is guaranteed.

We knead following Grandma Otelia's recipes

My grandmother Emma's fried food will always remain the only fried food' really good', she would prepare it early in the morning and cook it when I got home from school. I will have it prepared for you following Grandma Emma's recipe.An appetizer of coccoli or sommommoli (rice fritters) served with fresh cheese, mortadella or salamiFried chops or fried chicken with vegetablesRice fritters or St. Joseph's Day pancakes, all accompanied by excellent wine, coffee and...

Grandma Emma's fried food

Come and discover the secrets of traditional Tuscan cuisine in our cooking class, where we will focus on the delicious dishes of potatos gnocchi, the gnudi, and tiramisu.The gnudi, whose name comes from the Tuscan dialect, are a filling made of spinach and ricotta cheese that is typically used in ravioli, but we will prepare them without the pasta coating.Under the guidance of our expert chef, you will learn how to prepare these dishes from scratch and top them with a flavorful aglione or herb sauce and Parmesan cheese. And for the perfect finish to the meal, we will teach you how to make a classic and delicious tiramisù.Join us for an unforgettable culinary experience and indulge in the authentic flavors of Tuscany!