Amoré Cucina

Just like bread and butter pudding only better… This class will be sweetly packed with great ideas for the festive season. Some to eat alone and some to share with friends.

Panettone, the traditional sweet Italian bread can be used fresh or toasted with butter. For a light dessert, panettone can be made into a classic Australian old favourite with a creamy egg custard and baked.

Biscotti come in all shapes and sizes, served with a morning caffe latte or at morning and afternoon tea. Learn to make your own with or without fruit and nuts and package them up ready as special “home made” gifts for that special someone who has everything else. The same biscotti can be used to make that extra special dessert, Tiramisu.

Whether you have a sweet tooth or no teeth at all, there will be something in this class for everyone.

Please contact us if you have a group of 4-6 to do this class on the date of your choice.

The kids have left home (some have even come back again!). It’s been a long time since you’ve done something fun and romantic together.
You’d love to go to the South of France or escape to the hills of Tuscany! Save your airfare—the Panton Hill Winery is the place to go. Bring friends and celebrate together.
Take part in a Mediterranean Cooking Workshop and create a meal to share. Experience traditional homemade food matched with Panton Hill’s best.
Why not spend the weekend—so close to the Yarra Valley there are great places to stay, visit and discover in a weekend or two.
Just let us know if you would like us to organise a place to stay.

All our cooking classes are available as an interesting and different gift idea. Combine a day out at a great venue with food and laughter, unique ingredients and recipes, stories and passionate cooking. Afterward, your gift will go on through the joy of sharing recipes and meals made with fresh, seasonal and local produce. Stirred with love.

PUT IN TOGETHER
You and your friends decide the cost of the gift certificate and the recipient can decide on the cooking class of choice. Just give us a call or send an email and we will put the certificate in the post to you or the recipient.

Make Fresh Pasta: the annual Amore Cucina pasta event. Everybody loves fresh made pasta to add a sense of occasion and to really celebrate your own special pasta recipes.
Make Fresh pasta – $80.00 1 day, 3hrs at Warrandyte. Using a proven no-fail recipe we can show you how to make and enjoy this staple yourself using manual techniques or a pasta machine.

Wine & Food Experience at Panton Hill Winery: a slice of Tuscany just around the corner from Eltham. One of the Yarra Valley’s best kept secrets, the buildings are hand-built from stone quarried on the property and recycled treasures from some of Melbourne’s historic buildings and local landmarks. Panton Hill Winery is the perfect backdrop for a cooking class filled with all the flavours of the Mediterranean. Meet the winemakers and share a day with food, wine and friends and then take home some recipes to share. Amoré Cucina Wine & Food Experience at Panton Hill Winery – $160.00 1 day, 3hrs at Panton Hill Winery.

Food Hamper: make up your own gift pack or picnic basket or choose one from our favourites.

Amoré Cucina Cooking Class
Be one of the few to discover a part of Melbourne fresh from the Tuscan hills and blossoming in the Shire of Nillumbik. The vineyard is at Panton Hill, on the edge of the Yarra Valley closest to Melbourne – food and wine capital of Australia. This winery is the perfect backdrop for a cooking class with all the flavours of the Mediterranean in the food and wine to match the venue.
Enjoy a cooking class followed by a full wine tasting. All food and recipes provided. (Menu example here)
Your day starts at 10.00am where you will assist in preparing a meal to remember .

29th May (closed)
10th July (closed)
24th July (closed)
31st July (closed)
9th October (closed)
30th October (closed)

PRIVATE TAPAS FUNCTION
Please contact us to organise a date for your group to have a Tapas Workshop on a THURSDAY or FRIDAY at the Panton Hill Winery.
Minimum number 6, maximum number 8 for everyone to have hands-on.
Larger groups can be catered for with a demonstration type cooking class, limited participation.

Learn to make fresh pasta by hand. That’s right, no machines!
This is an easy and fun way of making ‘maccheroni’ the traditional way.
Take home what you make to share with your loved ones.

Select a date below or please contact us to organise a private function for your group (4-6).

Cooking ideas, suggestions, inspiration. Tasty treats in a one-on-one session to spoil and surprise the one you love.
Price on application.

Kindle the passion for real food and launch the newlyweds into a lifetime of healthy cooking.
For the couple to enjoy together: a Mediterranean Cooking Workshop at the Panton Hill Winery. Prepare and share a feast to remember. Learn about classic fresh ingredients and the simple, homestyle preparation of seasonal meat and vegetarian based dishes. Shop well: find the best produce and escape the supermarket queues. Cook well: cook with fresh, basic ingredients, draw on the variety of traditional dishes, experiment and above all have fun. Eat well: great flavour and texture, better nutrition through variety, fibre rich and in tune with the seasons.

Quick… Easy… Healthy… Fun!

How many classes have you been to where you have to sit there, starving and salivating and then just get a bite to taste?

This class will be packed full of surprisingly easy recipes, aromas to awaken the taste buds and flavours filled with the Mediterranean sun.

You get to eat the food and be inspired to cook.

Please call us to arrange a quote for your colleagues at work.

Price starts at $120.00 per hour for 6 people for a demonstration cooking class.