Baking and Pastry Arts

Using a combination of applied learning and theory, this one-year Baking and Pastry Arts Ontario College Certificate program gives you a strong foundation in baking and pastry arts. Gain hands-on experience in baking, cake decorating and shop management in our industry-standard baking and pastry labs – learning from professional chefs.

As a student, you get to show your creative side in the labs. You learn essential techniques such as mixing dough, weighing ingredients, preparing batters and icings, and cake decorating. To expand your job options, you learn skills related to the daily operation of a bakery, such as inventory control and food cost percentages.

At the end of the program, you apply your skills and knowledge in the real world with a 40-hour field industry placement. You also participate in a variety of events and baking competitions within the community so that upon graduation, you have career-ready skills and relevant industry contacts.

What You’ll Learn

• Identify the workings and the effects of ingredients in correlation to one another predicting the end results.
• Perform problem solving and troubleshoot recipes.
• Perform basic skills involved in the daily production operations 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, provincial and national health units.
• Apply basic mathematical principles and recipe conversions, bakery formulations and percentages.
• Practise skills used in the daily administrative operation of a bakery, including cost controls, food cost, percentages, labour cost and inventory controls.
• Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.