Hands-on cooking classes in Helsinki that teach you something you will actually make again at home.

Classes worth booking

Team Kitchen ★ 4.3

Finnish classics: Karelian pastries, cinnamon buns, salmon soupGroup: 8 to 12 minimum100 to 140 euros per personkamppi

Team Kitchen on Eerikinkatu runs hands-on Finnish classes: a lunch session making Karelian pastries with egg-butter or cinnamon buns, and an evening Taste of Finland menu of chanterelle soup and reindeer.

Martat Uusimaa ★ 4.2

A Tasty Trip to Finland: seasonal Finnish menu in EnglishGroup: 10 to 1895 to 105 euros per personjatkasaari

Martat, the long-running Finnish home-economics association, runs English-language classes on Välimerenkatu, including A Tasty Trip to Finland, a 3.5-hour seasonal Finnish menu you cook, eat and clean up together.

Helsinki Home Cooking ★ 4.1

Seasonal three-course Finnish menu with fish, berries and mushroomsGroup: 10 to 20115 euros per personkamppi

Helsinki Home Cooking, run by Pidot Productions on Abrahaminkatu, is a hands-on class building a rotating seasonal three-course Finnish menu around local fish, berries and mushrooms, with vegan options.

Team Kitchen Taste of Finland ★ 4.2

Three-course Finnish dinner: chanterelle soup, reindeer, cloudberryGroup: 8 minimum140 euros per personkamppi

Team Kitchen's evening Taste of Finland class cooks a three-course dinner of foamy funnel-chanterelle soup, reindeer with blueberry sauce and cloudberry soup with homemade ice cream on Eerikinkatu.

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