Market Driven Desserts

About This Course

Begin this lesson by joining Della & Roxana to a visit at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market, meeting the farmers & vendors who bring in the best produce of the season. Shop for a selection to work with and come back to the Chocolate Studio kitchen to create desserts and baked goods using the market produce. Find ways to inspire your current seasonal menu and explore the skill of making preserves using seasonal produce for use in the future.

About Chef Della Gossett

Della Gossett completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in Arts Education and Painting. Following years in Chicago working for Charlie Trotter, she accepted a coveted role as Pastry Chef Instructor in The French Pastry School’s L’Art de la Pâtisserie, The Professional Pastry and Baking Program. Bringing her many years of restaurant experience to share with her students. Gossett’s philosophy on the pastry arts involves a fidelity to the ingredients while also celebrating experimentation and creativity. In 2012, Gossett was approached by legendary chef Wolfgang Puck to join his team at Spago and lead the pastry department at his famed restaurant.  

Gossett is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and Women Chefs and Restaurateurs. In 2008, she was nominated for the WCR “Women Who Inspire” award. In 2011, Gossett won the National Pastry Team Championship with team captain Donald Wressell and her fellow French Pastry School instructors, Joshua Johnson and Scott Green.  The team went on to win the Silver Medal in the 2012 World Pastry Championship.

About Chef Roxana Jullapat

As the head baker and owner of a beloved Los Angeles bakery, Roxana Jullapat knows the difference local, sustainable flour can make: brown rice flour lightens up a cake, rustic rye adds unexpected chewiness to a bagel, and ground toasted oats enrich doughnuts. Her bakery, Friends & Family, works with dedicated farmers and millers around the country to source and incorporate the eight mother grains in every sweet, bread, or salad on the menu. In her debut cookbook, Roxana shares her greatest hits, over 90 recipes for reinventing your favorite cakes, cookies, pies, breads, and more.