RADYAN Chocolate Velvet Spray Techniques by Chef Jessie Riley

Discover the art of chocolate velvet spray with Chef Jessie Riley in this specialized class held in Brooklyn, NY. This session offers hands-on experience in creating the luxurious velvet texture on chocolates, enhancing both appearance and mouthfeel. The class fee includes a BakeDeco gift card, adding value to your learning experience.

Ideal for pastry chefs and chocolate enthusiasts, this workshop provides professional techniques to elevate your confectionery skills. The class is conveniently scheduled for a few hours, making it accessible for busy professionals seeking to expand their expertise in chocolate decoration.

Class Information

Are you interested in learning how to make the wonderful velvet-like effect on a cake that you see in magazines and in photographs? Join Chef Jessie Riley to learn the basics of how to: buy or make your own chocolate-cocoa butter spray mix, color spray mix if desired and prepare a cake for spraying (including timing). Chef Jessie will show you how to spray with a variety of equipment and equipment options and troubleshooting. Bring your questions and any equipment you are experiencing challenges. Optional special effects will be covered to create patterns on your cakes using cake cardboard and stencils.

Chef Riley developed her early passion for food from her Italian grandparents who hailed from Castellammare di Stabia. At age 7, she filleted her first fish and quickly moved on to mollusks and crustaceans. She graduated from NYU with a Masters Degree in Fine Art, where she taught graduate level printmaking. Jessie subsequently worked in higher education administration, but moonlighted to cater for friends’ parties on weekends. She finally reached a point where she felt it was time for a formal culinary education, and graduated with highest honors from the pastry program at the Institute of Culinary Education. Jessie has worked at two NYC restaurants, a bakery in France and a wholesale production bakery in NYC. Jessie is currently an Adjunct Chef Instructor in the Culinary Arts program at NYC Technical College (CUNY). She has also taught at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, where she also worked on curriculum development and cost controls, and Star Academy. Prior to working at Kingsborough, Jessie was a chef instructor at Rustico Cooking in Manhattan, with a focus on eating local sustainable food. Jessie co-teaches a Couples Cooking Series at ICE, and has co-taught numerous cooking classes at The Silo Cooking School in CT. Chef Jessie is a periodic co-host of Wild Game Domain radio show on Heritage Radio (heritageradio.org), and a founding partner of Food Startup Help, a consultancy for food entrepreneurs (foodstartuphelp.com). She keeps up with her artistic interests through private cake work, and has taken air brushing classes with renowned artists: Lisa Berzcel, Chef Stephane Treand, MOF, Chef Donald Wressel and Dru Blair.