Do you enjoy baking at home for your family and friends? Do you enjoy making deserts that are not only delicious, but are beautiful too? So, why not hone your skills, and learn the art and science of baking and pastry making, and pursue it as a career?

Professional bakers or pastry chefs get to create wonderful breads, desserts and pastries in the state-of-the-art kitchens at hotels, restaurants and resorts, which look like works of art. The job of a pastry chef is creative, interes...

The glass cases display a feast for the eyes: cupcakes with a rainbow of frosting, strudel drizzled with a sweet glaze, decadent cakes lined with fruit, cream pies with whipped topping, donuts in all shapes and sizes, weaved bread sprinkled with rosemary, cheese buns and many other savoury baked goods. These delicacies are the creation of professionals who work in retail bakeries, supermarkets, department stores, hotels, resorts, camps and more. That’s because these bakers are train...

Aside from retail bakeries, supermarkets, department stores, hotels, resorts, camps and more all hire bakers with the ability to produce advanced commercial quantities of breads, rolls, sweet dough, savoury and sweet pastry, Danish and puff pastry, cookies, cakes and desserts. If these professionals also have knowledge of materials purchasing and storage, product cost control and marketing, hiring and managing personnel, they are at a distinct advantage.

Centennial College's Baking ...

Whether a bakery is a retail operation or in a supermarket, department store, hotel, resort, camp or related business, it needs a professional with the skills to successfully manage and operate it. Students of Centennial College’s Baking – Pastry Arts Management program can rest assured that the two years they spend in the offering and the Ontario College Diploma with which they graduate fully prepares them for the challenges of the field.

Not only do students of this program ad...

Baking is not only about trying endlessly until you get the right softness and consistency but is also about experimenting and innovating and bringing new concepts and ideas to the market. You must be a very talented baker without any formal education in baking but a professional course and training can change your perception towards the art and science of baking and help you hone your skills. Apart from this, it can help you explore various career options that this profession offers,...

Even if you're a very talented natural baker and pastry chef, a formal education and training in baking and pastry arts management can help you hone your skills and provide you with new career possibilities that have never crossed your mind. Whether you're interested in working with professional establishments or are planning to set up your own bakery business, you will need to have a comprehensive baking and business knowledge and be well-versed with working on the latest baking equ...

All you need is a sweet tooth for creating delectable desserts, and you have the drive to compete in the competitive world of baking and the pastry arts. Skills and experience are highly valued in this arena, so you must be determined and hardworking to fulfill your sweet ambitions. This is not a traditional 9-5 job, but it can be a promising career, which starts with a culinary arts management program in pastry arts.

The training to make sweet concoctions starts with preparing simp...

All you need is a sweet tooth for creating delectable desserts, and you have the drive to compete in the competitive world of baking and the pastry arts. Skills and experience are highly valued in this arena, so you must be determined and hardworking to fulfill your sweet ambitions. This is not a traditional 9-5 job, but it can be a promising career, which starts with a culinary arts management program in pastry arts.

The training to make sweet concoctions starts with preparing simp...

The job of pastry bakers is no longer limited to turning raw ingredients into baked treats. Instead it extends to quantity bakery production, labour cost controls, purchasing for commercial kitchen, menu planning, practices of nutrition, and human resource planning.

Traditionally, pastry bakers were expected to just bake pastries, cookies, breads, cakes and chocolates. However, times have changed. Now, the industry offers them more legitimate career options in the areas of supply m...