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Bundt Baking and Galette Making with Christiaan de Vries

with Nordic Ware

£65
Wednesday 9th
December 2026
18:30-20:30
(2hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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Join Christiaan de Vries and Nordic Ware for a festive baking demonstration filled with seasonal flavours and plenty of inspiration for your winter kitchen.

Discover the secrets to a show-stopping Chocolate Orange Bundt, baked in Nordic Ware’s iconic Heritage Pan, alongside two savoury galettes perfect for festive entertaining: pumpkin, chestnut and sage, and a French onion soup-inspired combination of caramelised onions, Gruyère and thyme. You’ll also make a batch of roasted spiced nuts to enjoy at home – the perfect little something to share over the festive season.

Demo Menu:

  • Roasted spiced nuts
  • Chocolate Orange Bundt in the Nordic Ware Heritage Pan
  • Savoury Galette two ways: 
    - a pumpkin, chestnut and sage galette
    - a French onion soup-inspired version with caramelised onions, Gruyère and thyme

What's Included:

  • A welcome cocktail or something sparkly 🥂 
  • A brand new Nordic Ware Heritage Bundt Pan to take home
  • Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
  • Tasters of the demonstrated dishes enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshments
  • 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items

Christiaan de Vries

Christiaan de Vries is a 2024 finalist of The Great British Bake Off, known for his boundary-breaking bakes, daring designs, and fearless flavour pairings. Originally from the Netherlands, he moved to London to continue his career as a menswear designer, joining the UK’s leading fashion house — a background that now shapes his unique, detail-focused approach to baking.


Christiaan shares his baking tips, tricks and ideas with a loyal online audience, as well as through regular live TV appearances in the Netherlands. 

 

Discover our extensive collection of Nordic Ware bakeware, including one of the largest ranges of Nordic Ware available in the UK. From iconic Bundt® pans to everyday baking sheets, loaf tins, cake tins and specialist bakeware, Nordic Ware is known for practical performance, distinctive design and long-lasting quality.

Nordic Ware Bundt Pans

Founded in Minnesota in 1946 by David and Dorothy Dalquist, Nordic Ware remains a family-owned American brand with a long-standing reputation for dependable bakeware. While its early products were inspired by Scandinavian cooking traditions, the brand became best known for creating the original Bundt® pan, a design that has become a favourite with bakers around the world.

Nordic Ware Bundt pans are loved for their beautifully detailed shapes, from classic fluted designs to seasonal and decorative moulds. Made from cast aluminium, they provide excellent heat distribution, helping cakes bake evenly while capturing crisp definition in every detail. With the right preparation, they release cleanly, turning simple cake mixtures into impressive centrepieces for celebrations, gifting and everyday baking.

Nordic Ware Lemon Bundt Cake

Alongside Bundt pans, Divertimenti also stocks a wide range of Nordic Ware bakeware for everyday use. The collection includes pure aluminium baking sheets, jelly roll pans, loaf tins, cake tins, muffin pans and specialist baking trays, designed to support everything from biscuits and traybakes to breads, cakes and pastries.

Nordic Ware’s Naturals range is made from pure aluminium, chosen for its strength, durability and excellent heat conductivity. These pieces are ideal for regular bakers looking for reliable, professional-quality bakeware that performs beautifully and stands up to repeated use.

At Divertimenti, we have worked with Nordic Ware for many years and continue to stock a carefully selected range for both keen home bakers and confident cooks. Whether you are looking for a statement Bundt pan or dependable everyday bakeware, Nordic Ware offers timeless pieces made to be used and enjoyed for years.

 

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.


Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.



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