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Sinterklaas Festive Baking Masterclass

Name: Sinterklaas Festive Baking Masterclass
Brand: Christiaan de Vries
Price: 145.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Christiaan de Vries

£145

Saturday 6th
December 2025

11:00-14:30
(3.5hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Hands-on festive baking experience

Celebrate the magic of Dutch holiday traditions with Bake Off finalist 2024 Christiaan de Vries, as he returns to our cookery school for a very special Sinterklaas baking masterclass.

Christiaan’s retro cocktails and baking demo at the school was a sell-out success – lively, delicious, and full of charm. This time, it’s your turn to get stuck in: join him for a hands-on evening of festive baking, where you’ll create your own treats steeped in Dutch culture.

What is Sinterklaas?
Each December, the Netherlands bursts into celebration for Sinterklaas – a beloved winter holiday filled with sweets, surprises, and centuries-old traditions. Families gather to share spiced bakes, exchange playful gifts, and welcome St. Nicholas with songs and cheer. It’s the heart of the season in Holland, and its flavours are as warming as its spirit.

On the menu with Christiaan:

Taai Taai – soft, chewy, anise-flavoured bakes, pressed into intricate shapes using Christiaan’s own vintage wooden moulds
Speculaas – classic spiced biscuits, with the dough also transformed into bite-sized pepernoten for double the fun
Stollen – the iconic fruit-studded, marzipan-filled festive bread, perfect for sharing during the holiday season

Christiaan will guide you through each recipe step by step, sharing professional techniques, family stories, and the cultural traditions that make Sinterklaas so special. By the end of the evening, you’ll leave with a box of Dutch festive bakes to take home – and the know-how to recreate them for years to come.

What's included:

Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
Apron and all of the equipment required
A recipe pack for you to take home after your class, plus take home some some of your treats to savour later on or gift to friends and family.
Hands-on experience getting to know all of Christiaan's top baking tips
All ingredients provided and weighed out in advance for you
A seasonal lunch you 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
We do all the washing up!

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. For this special demo at Divertimenti, he’ll bring his eye for vintage style and playful flavour to the kitchen with a celebration of kitsch bakes and joyful creativity.

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.

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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.