In the pastry shop La Vecchia Carraia you can learn how to make traditional cakes and exquisite pizzas. This activity is IDEAL FOR CHILDREN.

The Tuscan pastry tradition has always been rich of delicious cakes. Arianna & Friends organize two-hour pastry classes in a traditional and welcoming pastry shop in the middle of the medieval town Peccioli. The class is carried out as follows:

- the first hour is dedicated to the preparation of cakes and biscuits belonging to the Tuscan tradition like cantuccini or the typical festivity cakes called ricciarelli, cavallucci and panforte;

- the second hour is dedicated to the kneading of pizza dough and to the prepartation of an excellent pizza;

- finally, all you prepared will be served in your dinner in the shop together with some matching wines and with the unique grappa of Colombana vine, a rare vine growing only in a restricted area of the Pisan hills.

Rates and enquiries

Transportation

Rates do not include transportation.

This is an email we received on 26th September 2010 from Sallie and Karen, who spent 10 days in Tuscany in our farm and enjoyed our pastry shop experience, our painting class and our cooking class:

Hi Arianna,

Just a quick note to thank you and the team very much for the incredible job you all did during our recent trip to Tuscany. Special thanks to Massimo and Consuelo for helping solve the GPS problem, the replacement Tom Tom worked extremely well and was a definite "must have" for foreigners trying to navigate their way around Italy. Also, to Massimo and Veronica for joining us and translating during our Cooking and Painting classes, their knowledge and experience, without a doubt, enhanced our experience during each of them.

With regard to the Pastry & Pizza Cooking Class we did with Massimo, he mentioned that copies of each of the recipes will be emailed to us, can I also remind you about that please, as we haven't received them yet?

Thanks again.

Sallie & Karen

This is an email we received on 3rd July 2009 from Jana and Roddrick on their honeymoon in Tuscany and doing a truffle hunting tour and a pastry class with us:

Massimo,

Here are the pictures we promised! We had the most amazing time on this whole-day tour with you. We thank you for custom-making this tour to fit all the things we wanted to do! It was simply amazing and we had more fun than we knew what to do with! I know we went to bed smiling and talking about it for many days afterwards. Every part of it was memorable, fun and perfect! If we are ever fortunate enough to come back to Italy, we are certainly booking with you guys and spending more time in that region. I have recommended you guys to my friends who are planning their trip to Italy in March. I know you will give them the same spectacular treatment that you did us! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making our honeymoon memorable and exciting! Hugs to Massimo and all our Italian friends we met along the way!

Sincerely,
Roddrick & Jana

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