We’re turning up the heat this summer with a NEW and exciting camp program, Sizzling Summer. In Sizzling Summer, campers will learn both foundational culinary and pastry skills while they slice and dice their way through 4+ innovative summer-inspired recipes every day! 

All recipes featured in Sizzling Summer are inclusive to vegetarians and nutritionally balanced, providing opportunities to share valuable lessons about personal nutrition and working with plant-based proteins. 

If your child has a passion for both baking and cooking, ready to expand their palates, and excited to take their kitchen skills to the next level, Sizzling Summer is the perfect program for them. We hope to see you there!

Around the World is back again, and ready to take flight! This program will take our campers on a trip across the globe, visiting some of the most iconic food cultures in the world and featuring dishes from each cuisine. 

Around the World is the destination for learning proper knife skills, cooking techniques, foundational pastry skills, and diverse cooking methods. Graduating campers will leave with the cooking skills and self-confidence to prepare and execute these vibrant recipes at home for your family. 

Budding bakers is a fun and intensive baking camp to engage your aspiring chefs with a passion for the sweet side of life. This program features all aspects of the pastry arts, including both sweet and savoury recipes, pastry preparation, and various baking techniques.

Budding Bakers campers will develop their baking skills and learn how to make a wide range of baked goods from yeasted breads, enriched doughs, pastries and more. Each day we will focus on new techniques and pastry theories. The campers will then execute recipes that utilize this new knowledge as they prepare their own lunch and various other pastries.

Leaving the program, our bakers-to-be will know a wide range of baking techniques, the science behind the ratios that make their baked goods so delicious, and, of course, the practical experience needed to recreate the magic at home!

Inspired by our amazing community of families with various dietary restrictions, Rooks to Cooks is pleased to release our newest and most inclusive camp program to date, Sweet & Savoury! Sweet and Savoury is the best of both worlds; a pastry and cooking camp. During the week, your multi-talented chef-in-training will learn fundamental cooking and baking techniques, proper knife skills, diverse cooking methods including how to utilize a wide range of plant-based proteins, gluten-free ingredients, and the value of teamwork in the kitchen. 

While being the BEST gluten-free and vegan culinary course of its kind, Sweet & Savoury teaches all the foundational cooking and baking techniques required for optimal kitchen confidence, all while debunking any myths that gluten-free and vegan cuisine is inferior (spoiler alert, it’s NOT!). This camp offers the unique opportunity to familiarize your family with plant-based and gluten-free ingredients, and learn trade tricks on how to transform these ingredients into delicious creations EVERYONE will enjoy. Don’t miss out and join us for our most innovative program to date!

This year we’re raising the bar in this advanced pastry program! Perfecting Pastries is designed to challenge your chef-in-training to prepare pastry recipes they wouldn’t have the opportunity to bake on their own at home. From confectionery to perfectly flaky pie crust, your child will explore all that you can create with butter, sugar, flour and everything in-between! This program will feature both sweet and savoury baking, as campers will prepare their own culinary creations for lunch every day; however, the focus will be more-so on the sweets. We will delve into the importance of science in successful baking, and we place an emphasis on teaching theory so your pastry-chef-to-be will know all the why’s behind baking thereby ensuring their continued success in the kitchen.

Despite the advanced recipes this pastry program features, we welcome beginners who can join with a buddy who can support them throughout the session. After a week of hands-on practice and learning about pastry theory, they will build confidence in themselves to take on new challenges. Our experienced chefs will be there to guide and support your aspiring pastry chef through learning all the tricks of the trade.