Baking and Pastry Arts Educational and Career Training Opportunities
Pastry Arts Programs are designed to prepare future chefs in the art of successfully preparing pastries and other baked goods. Time is spent preparing cakes, pies, and other baked goods; working with doughs, icings, and other ingredients used in pastry making. In addition to specific training for pastry making, students study fundamentals of the culinary arts, including cooking principles, sanitation, and management skills.
The following institutions offer training in Baking and Pastry Arts:
Baker College
- Location: Muskegon, Michigan
- Programs: Baking and Pastry Certificate
- Quick Summary: Through a combination of classroom, hands-on, and work experience training, students learn to prepare breads, cakes, cookies, international desserts, and more. THe program can be completed in one year.
- Request Information from Baker College
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Programs: Le Cordon Bleu Patisserie and Baking Associate degree
- Quick Summary: Learn the preparation of cakes, cookies, fillings, service pastries, and breads.
- Request Information from California Culinary Academy
- Location: Manhattan and Syosset, New York
- Programs: Baking and Pastry Arts Continuing Education Program
- Quick Summary: Two 13 week programs taught on Saturdays provide basic and advanced training in bread and pastry preparation.
- Request Information from The Culinary Academy
- Location: Hyde Park, New York
- Programs: Bachelor's degree in Baking & Pastry Arts Management; Associate degree in Baking & Pastry Arts
- Quick Summary: Students spend more than 1,300 hours learning in the bake shop, plus complete an 18 week internship.
- Request Information from The Culinary Institute of America
The French Culinary Institute
- Location: New York, NY
- Programs: Classic Pastry Arts diploma
- Quick Summary: Students receive hands-on instruction from professional pastry chefs in this six month day or 9 month evening program.
- Request Information from The French Culinary Institute
The Chef's Academy at Indiana Business College
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Programs: Certificate and Associate degree programs in Baking and Pastry
- Quick Summary: Learn professional baking skills in the school's state of the art bake shop. One year certificate program credit can later be applied to the Associate degree.
- Request Information from Kendall College
- Location: Denver Colorado, North Miami Florida, Charlotte North Carolina and Providence, Rhode Island
- Programs: Associate and Bachelor degrees in Baking & Pastry Arts; Program Availability varies by location.
- Quick Summary: Students get to explore the latest technologies in these hands-on programs, which go into depth on french pastries, breads, cakes and tortes.
- Request Information from Johnson & Wales University
- Location: Sacramento, California and Seattle, Washington
- Programs: Professional Baking and Pastry Diploma
- Quick Summary: Accelerated Training System puts the student in the kitchen from day one, and lets students graduate in as little as 30 weeks.
- Request Information from Kitchen Academy
- Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
- Programs: International Baking and Pastry diploma
- Quick Summary: Learn the theory behind the creation of pastries and baked goods, and gain hands-on experience in the school's extensive laboratories.
- Request Information from Lincoln College of Technology
Oregon Culinary Institute
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Programs: Baking & Pastry Certificate
- Quick Summary: Five month program teaches basic, intermediate, and advanced techniques in baking and pastry, including breads, cakes, chocolate, and specialty desserts.
- Request Information from Oregon Culinary Institute
- Location: Louisville, Kentucky
- Programs: Professional Baker diploma and Baking & Pastry associate degree
- Quick Summary: 9 month diploma or 18 month associate degree programs include hands-on training in the school's bakery.
- Request Information from Sullivan University
YTI Career Institute
- Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Programs: Diploma in Pastry Arts
- Quick Summary: Learn bakery operations in this 12 month program that includes an internship.
- Request Information from YTI Career Institute
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