Chocolate and pastry consulting

This is taylor made to your needs, we will go throughout the questions and struggles you have in order for you to have an easier process and a better chocolate and pastry experience!

Let's DO IT TOGETHER

I will be really happy to help you to make your project successful

We Work Together

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What people says...

I can say without any hesitation that Nicolas is among the great innovative pastry chef’s out there and he is an excellent business consultant who understands business from the owners perspective . Nicolas knows the business well, and is a consultant who wants nothing more than the best for his clients. Despite his busy schedule and traveling around the world he has been there for us every step of the way whenever we needed him.

Personally, Nicolas is the only Pastry consultant that I would ever use for the success of my growing business. Our results speak for themselves.

Ben Mokrani, Hotel Manager & Restaurant Owner

I am so glad I found Nicolas, he is the person who helped me the most to develop my business and implement new tools and new concept! Thank you so much for what you are doing for getting us in business!

Jennifer Harp, Business Owner

Thank you for giving us the shortcuts and the valuable informations in order to achieve the results we were looking for and make our production easier! I am looking forward our next conversations!

Jake Bonker, Chef Baker and Owner

Few words about me

I am pastry chef and chocolatier for 20 years, I have been teaching and explaining chocolate confectionery and technology to professional in more than 15 countries for the past 8 years. I have been pastry chef at the Valrhona's school in Tokyo and in New York for 6 years, and still now I work with valrhona in different countries.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the topic we can cover?

We can cover a wide range of topics depending your needs. I recommend you to have specific points ready in order to be more efficient and addressing each issues at a time. In one hour we can not go over all the topics, this requires several sessions. If you don t have any particular theme, we can go over technology together.

How do I schedule my appointment?

Upon purchasing coaching, you'll receive further instructions on how to book a time for your appointment.

Can I purchase coaching more than once?

Absolutely! If you find yourself in need of consulting more than once, simply purchase the consulting again or the long term plan...

How does it work?

We will have zoom meeting where we will go through the points we decided together, I like to use mind map and to built it as it goes, after the meeting ends, I add information s to the mind map and I send it to you as a PDF file. When we have our second call we can build on that or we can start another topic.

I like to give you as well any supportive documents needed or ressources which will help you to achieve what you are looking for!

Can you give me all your recipes?

I am always happy to share my recipes and knowledge, but the consulting and coaching calls are not the place for that, as a recipe alone, without informations and details is useless! If you only want professionally recipes which are tested tenth or hundreds of time before being released and explained, I advise you to go on my subscription plan. You will have access to all the content of my school, and added recipes every two weeks or more often.

Here it is the place to do it together!

- to learn how to formulate your own recipes or

- to find together a new taste profile,

-a new idea to improve the production,

-a new way to have a better result

-or simply getting more informations, more details and more ideas of declination on my existing recipes across the courses!

I am enrolled in your online school, how is it different than the monthly Q & A?

The consulting and coaching is taylor made to you and specific to your needs!

The Q&A monthly session is a group session where we will address the general theme on pastry and chocolate, related to the courses on the school, a nice way to interact all together! I won't talk about marketing, production implementation or concept design during the Q&A as those needs to be addressed on 1 to 1 consulting.

I would say both are different and useful to improve your pastry game!

Few example of what we can do together

Molded Bonbons

Molded bonbons without coloring

Chocolate Paning

A wide range of product, vibrant colors, different tastes, no coloring

Chocolate cristallisation

Understanding the 3 phases of the cristallisation

Enrobed Chocolate Bonbons

A wide range of recipes and textures

Snacking Bars

Long shelflife products using a wide range of technics

Caramels

Wide range of fruits caramels

Plated desserts

How to balance the tastes and textures.

Travel Cakes

Finding the right textures and tastes which last long.

Mono Portion

Focusing on the taste and textures.

Vienoisserie and laminated dough

Adapt the recipes and the process to your ingredients and material

Entremets

Balancing the textures and the tastes in a modern look

Spreads

Different techniques and different shelflife

Consulting One Time Purchase

$180

1h private consulting

One time purchase

If you want to know more about chocolate, how to fix your problems...

I can help you with understanding the cristallisation, how to improve shellfire, how to balance fillings for one shot, how to change your decorations and many more.

Taylor made to you

$500

3 hours consulting

Discounted price, ideal to follow a one time project

Discounted price, the session can be taken over the time in order to set milestones together

$600

4 hours of distance consulting

Discounted price for a more complex project

Discounted price, the sessions can be taken over the time in order to set up milestones together

Consulting Monthly Subscription

$600/month

Weekly Coaching

1 h per week

We schedule according to our schedule the time of our meeting. The time not taken every months can be taken the following month ( with a limit of two months).

1h of meeting every week where we can adresse various topic and focus on various aspect of your project.

Ideal for a project start or a mid term follow up on a on going project.

This is a subscription product billed on a monthly basis until you cancel. Cancel anytime from the account management page.

$1,100/month

Project follow up

1 hour of weekly meeting + extra works between the meetings

Ideal to follow up on bigger project, we define the objectives together and we move forward every weeks together on the goals we fix. I will work in between the meetings in order to make your project successful.

This coaching package is the preliminary step to work on a bigger project together, where we will work on a project basis and no more on a hourly basis.

This is a subscription product billed on a monthly basis until you cancel. Cancel anytime from the account management page.

Consulting Yearly Subscription

$1,800/year

1 year of 60 minutes coaching every month

discounted price from a regular single purchase (2 sessions free)

We can set up long terms milestones

Almost 50 % off per hour (compared to a single purchase of one hour)

We schedule according to our schedule the time of our meeting. The time not taken every months can be taken the following month (with a limit of 3 months)

For example you just use 60 minutes in January, you can take 30 minutes extra in February, or in March but you can't take the remaining 30 minutes in April.

This is a subscription product billed on a yearly basis until you cancel. Cancel anytime from the account management page.

$5,000/year

YEARLY ACCOMPAGNMENT

90 minutes meeting every week through the year

Year rate we set up a call every weeks of 90 minutes in order to follow up the evolution, brainstorm idea and we fix together the objective and the purpose of each calls. Call made on video conference and you will have the records after each session

All theme possible with a deeper focus on a specific topic every month

Sharing tools and platform in order to gather documents and being more efficient

5000 $ per year for 78 hours (possible to take longer sessions and to skip weeks)

This is a subscription product billed on a yearly basis until you cancel. Cancel anytime from the account management page.

Chocolate and Pastry Consulting

Working with you on chocolate formulation, improving shelf life, methods, understanding cristallisation...

How to enhance taste and texture, how to make the production smoother...

This is taylor made to your needs, we will go throughout the questions and struggles you have in order for you to have an easier process and a better chocolate and pastry experience!

Let's DO IT TOGETHER

We Work Together

What people says...

Ben Mokrani, Hotel Manager & Restaurant Owner

Jennifer Harp, Business Owner

Jake Bonker, Chef Baker and Owner

Few words about me

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the topic we can cover?

How do I schedule my appointment?

Can I purchase coaching more than once?

How does it work?

Can you give me all your recipes?

I am enrolled in your online school, how is it different than the monthly Q & A?

Few example of what we can do together

Molded Bonbons

Chocolate Paning

Chocolate cristallisation

Enrobed Chocolate Bonbons

Snacking Bars

Caramels

Plated desserts

Travel Cakes

Mono Portion

Vienoisserie and laminated dough

Entremets

Spreads

Consulting One Time Purchase

1h private consulting

One time purchase

3 hours consulting

Discounted price, ideal to follow a one time project

4 hours of distance consulting

Discounted price for a more complex project

Consulting Monthly Subscription

Weekly Coaching

1 h per week

Project follow up

1 hour of weekly meeting + extra works between the meetings

Consulting Yearly Subscription

1 year of 60 minutes coaching every month

discounted price from a regular single purchase (2 sessions free)

We can set up long terms milestones

YEARLY ACCOMPAGNMENT

90 minutes meeting every week through the year