Cooking - Family Meals - Fruit in Desserts - High Pavement - Adult Learning

High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield

Key details

Date -
Sessions Thursdays: 10am - 12:30pm
No. sessions 6
Venue High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 8
Cost Free

About this course

Would you like to learn some new cooking techniques using fruit, brush up on your maths skills AND leave the lesson with some delicious desserts for you and your loved ones? If the answer is yes, then this is the course for you. During each session, in our brand-new custom-built teaching kitchen, you’ll learn how to cook a different fruit-based dessert, as well as sneaking in a bit of related maths practice. We’ll provide the ingredients and, as the course develops, you will be able to help decide what to cook. All the recipes we use will be plant based but with an option to use more traditional dairy products if you like.


In our six relaxed and friendly sessions we will prepare: 

  • Crumble with a range of filling and toppings 
  • Pie, using pastry you will make yourself 
  • Muffins and scones 
  • Fruit tart 
  • Baked and roasted fruit used in a variety of ways 
  • A sponge cake filled and topped with fruit. 

By the end of the course, you will have: 

  • Prepared a range of desserts with fruit, making the most of fresh, frozen and tinned produce. 
  • Learnt how best to store them, ensuring nothing goes to waste. 
  • Used maths related to weighing and measuring. 
  • Learnt how to scale a recipe up or down to feed more or less people. 
  • Considered food budgeting and how to make the most of your food money. 
  • Compared recipes and meals to the “Eatwell Guide” to ensure that all food groups are included.


Whilst the type of dish we’ll make each week has been planned in advance we’d love to include what you want to make. So if you have ideas for any of the above dishes that you would like to try please bring them along to the first session.

Booking your place and fee information

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, and
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.


To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire

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