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World Champion Pastry Chef and Top Chef Winner Chris Hanmer and his wife, Caryn Hanmer, announce the creation of a website community for parents and family that face Congenital Heart Defects.  The community is named CH Sweethearts, and will be found online at CHSweethearts.org. The Hanmer’s baby daughter, Carys, was born in 2011 with a more »

World Champion Pastry Chef Chris Hanmer, Top Chef winner and proprietor of the School of Pastry Design in Las Vegas, Nevada, is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Bullfrog & Baum, the esteemed PR firm that is, “a nationally recognized award-winning agency specializing in hospitality, lifestyle and consumer public relations and marketing. With offices more »

World Champion Chef Chris Hanmer and the School of Pastry Design in Las Vegas, Nevada, have finalized their course schedule for early 2012. Available classes are posted from January 2012 through April 2012, and the schedule includes 3 sessions of Chef Chris’ newest course: Modern Sugar Flower Techniques. As a popular competitor on Bravo Channel’s more »

Chef Chris Hanmer, winner of Top Chef: Just Desserts season 2 and world pastry champion, will be showcased at the annual Food & Wine Cayman Cookout January 12 -15, 2012. Chef Chris will be among the many notable chefs and celebrities that cook for, “The Caribbean’s Premier Epicurean Event.” This year’s event is hosted by more »

8 hours – $800 In this class students will learn new types of pulled and blown sugar flowers. The focus is only on new and modern flowers and techniques, and the class is for students that already have knowledge of sugar work. Chef Chris will use liquid nitrogen, molds, and new shapes to create modern more »

The School of Pastry Design in Las Vegas, NV, has announced the addition of two new courses to their popular chocolate series:  Chocolate Design 3 and Modern Bon Bons.  These new courses are designed to enrich your professional chocolate skills to all new levels. Chocolate Design 3 is a hands-on, 2-day course for students serious more »

The School of Pastry Design has posted its course schedule for the remainder of 2011. All classes sell out quickly, and some have limited seating to only 2-3 students. Please register for classes in chocolate showpieces and sugar showpieces before they are sold out! Join World Pastry Champion Chef Chris Hanmer in the Las Vegas, more »

This class is a must for the modern chocolatier. In this 2-day class, Chef Chris will cover how to design bon bon flavors and use colored cocoa butter to make edible works of art. Students will also learn contemporary flavors of ganache, production flow, shelf life and water activity.

In this 2-day class, students will make a large competition-style chocolate showpiece. Chef Chris will share how he gets inspiration for the design of his showpieces, and students will learn how to find their own voice in design. The class will also cover contemporary techniques including flowers, casting chocolate in molds, airbrushing cocoa butter and more »

In this class students learn how and what to taste in chocolate, known as a “Flavor Map” for any kind of chocolate. Students will receive all the information for how to hold their own chocolate tasting at work or at home. This class is a must-attend for professional chefs and chocolate lovers of all kinds.