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Baking and Pastry Programs

Academies, Institutes, Schools, and Universities

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.

Online Baking and Pastries Programs

Campus-based Colleges - Baking and Pastries Degrees

• Arizona Culinary Institute - Arizona
• Baker College Campus - Muskegon - Michigan
• California Culinary Academy - California
• California School of Culinary Arts - California
• Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago - Illinois
• Culinary Academy of Long Island - New York
• Culinary Academy of New York - New York
• Florida Culinary Institute - West Palm Beach - Florida
• Harrison College - Indianapolis - Indiana
• Harrison College - Indianapolis (Medical Division) - Indiana
• Harrison College - Indianapolis (The Chefs Academy) - Indiana
• Keiser University - Center for Culinary Arts - Tallahassee - Florida
• Keiser University - Tallahassee - Florida
• Keiser University - Tampa - Florida
• Kendall College - Chicago - Illinois
• Kitchen Academy - Sacramento - California
• Kitchen Academy - Seattle - Washington
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Atlanta - Georgia
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas - Nevada
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami - Florida
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis-St. Paul - Minnesota
• Lincoln College of Technology - West Palm Beach - Florida
• New England Culinary Institute - Montpelier - Vermont
• Oregon Culinary Institute Offices - Portland - Oregon
• Orlando Culinary Academy - Florida
• Pennsylvania Culinary Institute - Pennsylvania
• Scottsdale Culinary Institute - Arizona
• Sullivan University - National Center for Hospitality Studies - Kentucky
• Texas Culinary Academy - Texas
• The Art Institute of Atlanta - Georgia
• The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles - California
• The Art Institute of California - Orange County - California
• The Art Institute of California - Sacramento - California
• The Art Institute of California - San Diego - California
• The Art Institute of Charleston (SM) - South Carolina
• The Art Institute of Colorado - Colorado
• The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale - Florida
• The Art Institute of Houston - Texas
• The Art Institute of Indianapolis - Indiana
• The Art Institute of Las Vegas - Nevada
• The Art Institute of Michigan - Michigan
• The Art Institute of New York City - New York
• The Art Institute of Ohio - Cincinnati - Ohio
• The Art Institute of Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
• The Art Institute of Phoenix - Arizona
• The Art Institute of Portland - Oregon
• The Art Institute of Salt Lake City (sm) - Utah
• The Art Institute of Seattle - Washington
• The Art Institute of Tampa - Florida
• The Art Institute of Tennessee - Nashville - Tennessee
• The Art Institute of Tucson - Arizona
• The Art Institute of Vancouver (Dubrulle Culinary Arts location) - British Columbia
• The Art Institute of Washington - Virginia
• The Art Institutes International Minnesota - Minnesota
• The Culinary Institute of America - Hyde Park - New York
• The French Culinary Institute - New York - New York
• The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago - Illinois
• Western Culinary Institute - Oregon
• YTI Career Institute - Lancaster - Pennsylvania
• YTI Career Institute - York - Pennsylvania

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