Sprouting Chefs

My Daughter loves going to Sprouting chefs cooking classes. It's 3 hours of fun as well as learning a variety of delicious recipes like lunch and dinner meals, snacks, desserts and more!! And the best part is parents get to taste the food because there is plenty to share! Yumm! Lillian (teacher/chef) is the best; she is the nicest person you'll ever meet, the kids love her classes! Two thumps up!

Sprouting Chefs has been a great experience for my daughter! She has learned proper knife techniques, how to temper chocolate, bake bread from scratch, worked with phyllo dough, and so much more. It has helped her confidence in the kitchen and fostered her love to cook. I love the variety of classes, especially since we are vegetarian; the choices are always interesting and varied. Lilian has helped my daughter become a great chef!

My daughter has recently been expressing an interest in helping more in the kitchen, and Sprouting Chefs seemed like a fun way for her to have a fun experience with peers while learning some new techniques. She absolutely loved the class and asked to return for more sessions. The leftovers she brought home to share were incredibly delicious. I’m so grateful for this program!

My daughter loves cooking with Sprouting Chefs!! She brings home leftovers that are delicious with the recipes so she can recreate her creations! I highly recommend these cooking classes for any little one who loves to be in the kitchen!

This cooking class is very fun and entertaining to the youth audience. Children learn basic knowledge of cooking while doing it. The variety of topics/ themes of the cooking classes were always intriguing. My daughter kept going back taking classes from Sprouting Chefs Ann Arbor because the classes continuously offer excitement for her to learn cooking and its preparation process. A fantastic program for children.

Sprouting Chefs offers 3 hour cooking classes for kids aged 8 and up. The menus are themed and offer nutritious things that kids enjoy. Kids come home with recipes and generous portions of everything they made.

Total kitchen learning from types of knives to use for food being cut, great recipes, to proper clean up after enjoying what you made. Top notch

My daughter and her friends recently attended a cooking class with Lilian Anderson, owner of Sprouting Chefs. Sprouting Chefs is new to the Ann Arbor area, and offers hands-on cooking classes for children and teens ages 8-16. Reasonably priced at $45 a session and conveniently located in the spacious kitchen of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on Scio Church Road, Sprouting Chefs offers attendees the chance to make new and theme based meals in a safe, fun and supportive environment. Throughout the 2 1/2 hour class, Lilian and an assistant provided supervision and instruction to the students, as they moved through all of the steps to make three age appropriate, yet creative menu items. In the class my daughter attended, they made a cucumber salad, homemade Southern-style macaroni and cheese, and mixed berry shortcakes with lemon curd. Completely at ease with the children, Lilian infused the class with instruction on technique, such as how to properly hold a knife; kitchen rules, such as to always say "behind" when you are coming behind someone with boiling water or a hot pan; and nutrition information, such as information on the differences between organic, locally grown and conventional produce. At the end of the class, which included a generous tasting of all the dishes, my daughter and her friends left with a take home bag of the dishes they had prepared and a recipe booklet so that they could make the recipes at home with their families. The girls had a wonderful time and I would highly recommend the class to other children and teens who enjoy and want to learn more about cooking.