This gluten-free Yule log class is a festive piece of christmas team building in San Francisco: in three hands-on hours a chef guides your group through a classic buche de Noel from start to finish, and every guest takes home the cake they made, ready for a Bay Area holiday table.
Pricing is $145 per guest for groups of 1 to 40. Nonalcoholic beverages, including coffee and tea, are provided, all other materials are supplied, and guests are welcome to bring their own beer or wine.
What's Included
- Three hours of step-by-step baking with an experienced chef
- All gluten-free ingredients, tools and equipment
- Nonalcoholic beverages, including coffee and tea
- Your own finished Yule log cake to take home
- Techniques you can use
This gluten-free Yule log class is a festive piece of christmas team building in San Francisco: in three hands-on hours a chef guides your group through a classic buche de Noel from start to finish, and every guest takes home the cake they made, ready for a Bay Area holiday table.
Pricing is $145 per guest for groups of 1 to 40. Nonalcoholic beverages, including coffee and tea, are provided, all other materials are supplied, and guests are welcome to bring their own beer or wine.
What's Included
- Three hours of step-by-step baking with an experienced chef
- All gluten-free ingredients, tools and equipment
- Nonalcoholic beverages, including coffee and tea
- Your own finished Yule log cake to take home
- Techniques you can use to recreate the dessert at home
What You Will Make
- A gluten-free chocolate sponge cake, rolled into the classic log shape
- Silky buttercream to fill and coat the log
- Meringue mushrooms for the traditional woodland finish
The buche de Noel, also known as the Yule log, is one of the most beautiful and beloved Christmas desserts. The chef walks the group through every stage: whipping and baking a gluten-free chocolate sponge, rolling it without cracks, whipping up a smooth buttercream, and piping and baking charming meringue mushrooms. The final decorating step gives each cake its bark texture and woodland look, so every guest goes home with a centerpiece that looks as impressive as it tastes.
A Good Fit for Mixed Diets
Because the whole recipe is gluten-free, this class is an easy pick when a group includes people who avoid gluten. Nobody has to sit out the dessert or bring a separate version, and the techniques transfer directly to a gluten-free holiday kitchen at home.
Why Groups Enjoy It
Rolling a sponge cake and decorating a log is the kind of task that goes better with teammates, which makes it one of the more memorable holiday team building activities. People share tips, help steady each other's cakes and compare finishing touches at the end. For planners comparing team building culinary classes, it offers a clear, achievable goal and a result everyone can carry out the door.
It also works as one of the calmer christmas team activities for a department social, a holiday outing with friends, or anyone looking for new holiday recipes and fun things to do in San Francisco for the season.
Who It Suits
The class is beginner-friendly and no experience is required. Kids from 12 years old can take part, and adult accompaniment is not required. Groups of up to 40 guests can be accommodated.
About the Kitchen
The class runs in a bright home kitchen and event space in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, with windows overlooking the Bay. The same team hosts culinary team building and private events for companies, along with public cooking classes, and works at satellite locations around the Bay Area. Their whole approach is simple: move people out of their everyday roles and into the camaraderie of the kitchen, where a shared goal of making a nourishing meal turns into an evening people remember.
Beyond scheduled classes, the same kitchen runs private cooking events for groups as small as 10 and as large as 300, and the chefs are happy to accommodate most dietary needs and food allergies when told in advance. Custom menus are treated as a welcome creative challenge, so groups with a specific theme in mind can ask about adapting a menu for their event.
Planning Tips
- Share any dietary needs or allergies with your headcount so the chef can plan ahead
- Wear comfortable, closed shoes and clothes you do not mind getting a little flour on
- Plan for the full session, since the shared meal or tasting comes at the end
- Bring a cooler bag or tote if you will be carrying food home
Good to Know
- Beginner-friendly, with no baking experience required
- Bring your own beer or wine; all other materials are provided
- An optional logo apron can be added when booking for $25
- Groups of 1 to 40 guests at $145 per guest
Plan Your 2026 Holiday Event
Share your preferred date and headcount to check availability. With per-guest pricing, gluten-free ingredients and a finished cake for each guest, it is a festive head start on holiday baking.
