Thanks to the popularity of food channels and cooking shows across the broadcast spectrum, a growing interest in recreational cooking has spurred chefs across Los Angeles to create cooking classes for every interest. Whether you’re a beginner or boast years of experience in the kitchen, you will find a class to suit your taste and skills.

For something a little closer to home, we’ve comprised this roundup of awesome cooking classes in Woodland Hills – so get ready to meet your inner chef…perhaps for the very first time!

Hip Cooks, located at 5305 Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Woodland Hills (but with a myriad of locations throughout California, Oregon and Washington), gives you the chance to learn how to cook healthy food with dazzling knife skills, unlock the secrets of Thai cooking or win over that special someone with a date night cooking class. There are over 50 courses to choose from here, so you can be on your way learning to cook farm-to-table with fresh ingredients, improving your knife skills and cooking techniques (from easy family dinners to elegant dishes) and even making new friends in the process at no time at all.

Sur La Table, located at 6316 Topanga Canyon Boulevard Suite 1150 in Los Angeles, is a wonderful addition to the Woodland Hills culinary scene, offering in-store classes that let you roll up your sleeves and chop, mix and knead your way through each recipe. The classes are open to all skill levels, and you can be sure to get all the personal attention you require thanks to cooking classes capped at 16 students, usually working in groups of four. Sur La Table’s instructors are teachers and chefs bring a wealth of experience and love of sharing their knowledge.

Kake Kreations, located at 21851 Sherman Way in Canoga Park, is a supplier of quality cake and candy making items, offering classes for any level of experience including Cake Decorating (beginner/intermediate/advanced), Chocolate Bar Candy Train (learn how to make a fun, cute centerpiece), Royal Icing (create a thinned royal icing picture), Gum Paste Flowers (learn how to make amazing hand-shaped flowers), Hands-On Chocolate Candy Class (from basic to 3D candy pieces), Single Lessons (creating anything you desire within your instructor’s abilities) and Sugar Molding (sugar decorations for cakes).

Cookin’ with Kids, located at 6736 Balboa Boulevard in Lake Balboa, focuses on cooking classes for your little ones, inspiring and empowering this generation of foodies to stop watching people make food and to get into the kitchen and become a young chef themselves. Children ages five through 14 learn basic culinary skills, all while using kitchen tools designed for their size, and classes combine a hands-on experience with guided instruction where young chefs measure and combine ingredients, work together in a group setting, develop their palates with new and exciting flavors and get their creativity flowing.

There are so many unbelievably great restaurants in L.A., but there’s also some of the best creative culinary minds that are able to break down what they do and pass it on to you – and your friends. If you’ve ever wanted to tap into your inner Mario Batali, or didn’t even know you had one, the aforementioned cooking classes in Woodland Hills will surely satisfy that itch.