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About the Program
This program is designed to help students start a career as a baker or pastry chef. It will include practical, theoretical and hands-on training in areas of baking, baking equipment usage, baking and pastry fundamentals, food costing, cake decorating, sanitation and safety and pastry management. Under faculty guidance, working individually and as part of a team, students will develop core skills in specialized areas, including: chocolate and confections, wedding and specialty cakes, tarts and pastries, plated desserts, artisan breads and breakfast pastries, petits fours, laminated dough and viennoiseries, ice cream and sorbets.
Program Outcomes
Identify the workings and the effects of ingredients on one another and predict how the end product will be affected.
Perform problem solving and troubleshoot recipes.
Perform basic techniques involved in the daily production of a bakery or pastry shop.
Recognize and produce both classical and modern baked goods.
Apply food safety principles and practices as identified by the local health unit.
Apply basic mathematical principles and recipe conversions, bakery formulations and percentages.
Practice skills used in the daily operation of a bakery, including cost controls, food cost, percentages, labour cost and inventory controls.
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Level 1
Course Details
College Reading & Writing SkillsCOMM1085
Software Applications ICOMP1006
Conestoga 101CON0101
Baking and Pastry Arts Theory ICUL1470
Baking and Pastry Arts Skills ICUL1480
Mathematics for HospitalityMATH1575
Hospitality Certifications: SmartServe & Food HandlersOHS1390
Level 2
Course Details
Career SuccessCDEV1830
Nutrition and Healthy LifestyleCUL1010
Baking and Pastry Arts Theory IICUL1500
Baking and Pastry Arts Skills IICUL1510
Dessert Menu ManagementCUL1520
Baking ProductionCUL1530
Kitchen Management IMGMT1050
Bakers
Health Insurance - $500
