Taking a plant-based cooking class means the difference between putting together a nice dinner and blowing the socks off your date when you plate up a Michelin star quality meal! We’re sure you can already knock together a decent hummus or even flambé a delicious fruity dessert but learning from the industry experts will elevate your skills to the next level.

Of course, you could attend an in-person culinary class at a specialized institution but you’d have to physically get there, commit a lot of time, and spend an awful lot of money. Instead, why not opt for an online cooking class? There are plenty of different classes to choose between, from learning how to create delicate plant-based pastries to veganizing an entire German feast.

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These are the best plant-based cooking classes

So if you fancy becoming the next best thing in the vegan cooking world then we heartily recommend the following classes. Taught by the industry’s top vegan chefs, these online courses will hone your culinary skills and significantly improve your confidence in the kitchen!

We’ll go over what you’ll learn, the techniques you’ll develop, which professional chefs you’ll learn from, and the benefits of each cooking class. Without further ado, here they are:

Fine Italian Pastries & Desserts

We can’t think of anyone better to teach you how to create exquisite Italian pastries and desserts than Chef Matteo Febbraio. With over 10 years of experience working as a plant-based pastry chef in prestigious restaurants all over Europe, Febbraio is internationally renowned for his balance between texture, taste, and authenticity.

In this exclusive plant-based cooking class, you will learn how to create classic pastry dishes and decadent desserts using homemade butter, ricotta, and egg alternatives. Febbraio focuses on key cooking techniques while showing you how to make the most of vegan ingredients and basic kitchen equipment. By the end of this class, you will be able to make a variety of plant-based desserts including meringues, gluten-free shortcrust, fluffy baba cake, and the smoothest pistachio ice cream you have ever tried in your life!

Sign up for the Fine Italian Pastries & Desserts class here

Raw Food Fundamentals

Whether you’re a junk food vegan looking to increase your nutrient uptake or you’re ready to open up a whole new world of food heaven, there are benefits aplenty from taking a raw plant-based cooking class. Chef Lauren Lovatt, founder of Plant Academy UK and vegan entrepreneur, takes us on a journey through healthy and delicious raw food cooking (if you can call it that).

In this course, you will learn the basics of raw food preparation, including cooking techniques, styling and plating your dishes, and how to choose and combine ingredients and flavors. In addition to dehydrating your food, you’ll discover how to ferment, smoke, and sprout to create different textural and nutritional elements. Students will also benefit from 25+ video lessons, a raw food shopping list, a knife skills manual, and a complete coursebook packed with information and recipes to try.

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Authentic Vegan Thai

This plant-based cooking class is going to show you how to cook some real flavor bombs! There’s nothing quite like Thai food to enliven the senses but how do you know the recipes you can find online are authentic? Moreover, how can you recreate Thai cuisine without using fish or meat sauces? Well, by enrolling in this vegan course, you’ll discover how to make 4 iconic curry pastes (from Panang to red curry) and even how to make your own coconut milk or cream.

Chef Ploy, the owner of Baan Farm Thai Cooking School located in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, shares her passion for authentic ingredients and flavors. Benefits of this cooking class include learning about the 4 crucial components of Thai food, the essential kitchen tools required to create mouth-watering cultural dishes, and how to replace animal products with vegan ingredients. Dishes include papaya salad, Pad Thai, Tom Yum, Massaman curry, and so much more!

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Vegan German Classics

Think about German food...what comes to your mind? Schnitzel, sausages, roulade...pretty meat-heavy at first glance! But Chef Johannes Nicolay is here to demonstrate how to prepare German signature dishes in a fully vegan way. With over 30 years of professional chef experience, Nicolay transformed his family hotel into a vegan one over 12 years ago and has been serving plant-based cuisine to his guests ever since!

By signing up for this cooking class, you’ll benefit from video lessons on German cooking essentials, the use of various vegan ingredients to create realistic meat alternatives, and the best vegan seasonings to complement your dishes. You’ll learn professional techniques such as how to sous vide, the tricks to preparing a hearty jus, and how to create an umami stock with lots of depth.

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Veecoco Plant-Based Cooking Academy

Our cooking classes don’t stop there, we have online lessons covering everything from Korean cuisine to Swiss chocolate, plant-based sushi & ramen, artisanal vegan cheese, plant-based desserts, and healthy & easy plant-based cooking.

Discover all of the plant-based cooking classes available at Veecoco here

Prefer to learn by reading? Then make sure you check out our Ultimate Guide on How to Cook Vegan Food - it’s packed to the brim with useful recipes, top tips, essential shopping guides, nutrition information, and cooking techniques.