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Le Cordon Bleu Schools
North America

Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America combines classical French techniques with innovative American technology. We are proud to offer the Le Cordon Bleu Programs to students around the country.

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Baking and Pastry Arts Degree Programs

Pastry Arts Programs are designed to prepare future pastry chefs in the art of successfully preparing pastries and other baked goods.

Are you proud of your latest cookie caper? Do your friends and family believe you're a prodigy with pastries? Perhaps you're ready to discover what the top pastry chef and baking schools can offer.

If you are an enthusiastic cook and are looking for a career that will enable you to use practical and creative skills as well as business acumen, the training offered by a baking and pastry school might be just what you need.

Pastry chefs are passionate about their pursuit of culinary excellence and take many courses to ensure their success in the field. If you're serious about a career as a pastry chef, you'll want to choose a school that will teach you not only about the equipment and how to use it but the theory of baking. Courses for baking and pastry work are available at all levels, up to and including bachelor's and associate's degrees. The coursework involves learning basic cooking skills, progressing to the making and inventing of specialty breads, pastries, cakes for all occasions, hot and cold plated desserts, making candy and confections, plus nutrition, menu development, food safety and cost control. In many cases your pastry chef school will have a restaurant or café on its premises that is open to fellow students, staff and possibly the public. This type of facility will allow you and your classmates to practice handling the marketing, staffing, display, customer service, inventory, production and sales for a live baking and pastry outlet.

Career opportunities are good for well-trained pastry chefs and there are many possibilities open to you within the hotel and catering industry. You might choose to specialize as an executive pastry chef, artisan bread maker, chocolatier or pâtissier, you might want to write cookbooks, become a teacher or a food stylist, or even open your own café or bakery.

Graduates of the top schools will walk away with the knowledge necessary to plan menus, train others, work with restaurant and hospitality managers, and most of all create truly magnificent pastries and desserts that make mouths water and send taste buds to nirvana.

If you're already working in the field, many schools also offer courses that can help you advance your career. Tune up your knowledge base with advanced specialties like the art of blown, spun and pulled sugar and marzipan or coursework on working with chocolate to create decorative showpieces.

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Campus-based Baking and Pastry Arts Degree Programs

Baking and Pastry Arts

Do you want to turn your love of baking into a career? Consider the options of becoming a Baker or Pastry Chef by weighing the tastes and aromas of your own baked creations. Trained pastry artists have the plus of entering an strong job market as the public's fascination with sweet and delectable goods never ceases. People who love to eat, also how to bake. It is just a perfect combination for the future Baker and Pastry Chef in you.

The culinary arts are always a hot commodity in the bellies of hungry pastry lovers and consumers. Remember. There is always room for dessert.

Begin your career as a baker or a pastry chef with hands-on education in areas of bread, pastry, cake, production management, chocolate technique and dessert presentation. You will also have in-depth knowledge from courses in nutrition, hospitality, communications and computer skills.

Choose a culinary academy that gives you in-depth “real world” experiences and a critical overview of what lies ahead for you. With the skills and knowledge you get from your training program, you will be qualified for employment opportunities in commercial bakeries, large hotels and institutions, catering companies, in-store bakeries and small bakery and pastry shops. Trained pastry graduates often become pastry chefs at fine dining establishments. You will be prepared to enter the hot job scene with your expertise in tow.

It is important to choose a program that emphasizes your professional development as well as your culinary skills. You will need both to work simultaneously to attain a job or even to open your own business. Bake your way to success!

The Art Institutes -
Multiple Locations

Turn your passion into a four-star career. At The Art Institutes, you'll explore traditional, fundamental cooking skills and get hands on training in our student-run restaurants.

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