Preserving the Season

Preserving is an age-old technique that was a necessity before the arrival of refrigeration. Today we still preserve the seasons, although many ingredients are available all year round, as these processes add unique and delicious flavours. This course will focus on preserving with salt, sugar and vinegar, producing local favourites like biltong, chutneys and jams.


Bites of Art – Flooded Cookies

Master the skillful piping and flooding that turns biscuits into bites of art.  


Healthy Entertaining


A Tavola! Cooking and Talking Italian


Fascinating Fermentation


Plant-Based Cooking

Learn to appreciate and master the diversity and health benefits that vegetables, fruit, grains and pulses bring to the table. 


Creative Low Carb Cooking


Gluten-Free Baking

The limitations of a Coeliac, gluten intolerant or gluten-free by choice diet make baking delicious breads and cakes in particular a challenge. In this course we show you how.  


Creative Cakes

Learn with our pastry chefs how easy it actually is to make impressively decorated cakes for every occasion. 


Valentine’s Couples Cooking

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw


Advanced Cakes: Gateaux and Entremet


Festive Roasts

Nothing announces a feast like an impressive roast at the centre of the table. In this course, we will teach you to master the art of roasts.


Taming Fire – Master the Art of the Braai

Bored with steak, chops and wors on the braai? Looking for new braai side ideas? This course is guaranteed to inspire you with new ideas as we turn your braai into an outdoor kitchen.


Meet Your Patisserie Kitchen

An eight-week introduction to the basic skills and ingredients of the professional pastry kitchen.


Meet Your Kitchen

An eight-week introduction to the basic skills and ingredients of the professional kitchen.


Kitchens of the World

Travel the world through your kitchen this year as you explore the cooking of far-off lands with Prue Leith Culinary Institute in this course.


Explosions of Flavour – Master Herbs and Spices

Learning to master the art of blending herbs and spices and making blends, dips and spreads that pack a punch. 


Summer Salads

Colours, flavours, textures, lightness and delight! There is far more to compiling a good salad than meets the eye.


Passionate About Poultry


Fabulous Fish


Basic Baking


Sensational Sugar Confections


Valrhona Chocolate Pralines and Confections


Sourdough Secrets


Menu Planning, Plating and Trends


Mastering Meat


Bread Basics


Art of Tarts


Perfect Pasta


Festive Baking: Christmas Cakes and Bakes

Cinnamon, ginger and allspice, the aroma of Christmas is in the air!


Festive Baking & Decorating: Christmas Biscuits

The best of Christmas baking is the biscuits. Filled with sugar and spice and decorated with all things nice! 


Festive Baking & Decorating: Easter

There is no better place to celebrate Easter with family and friends than around the table sampling the traditional sweet treats that mark this celebration.


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