Five-course, 18-credit program will guide students from the fundamentals of pastry preparation through chocolates, sugar casting, sugar pulling, marzipan and Isomalt and complex cake decoration
Yavapai Community College’s Sedona Center Culinary Arts announced a new baking and pastry certificate program for the fall of 2021. In its announcement, the Community College said that the program is “designed to fast-track students with the skills for baking positions in food preparation.” Chef Robert K. Barr, Director of the Sedona Culinary Arts Program, said that “baking skills are polished as students learn more difficult baking, pastry and dessert techniques.”
The five-course, 18-credit program will take students from the fundamentals of pastry preparation through chocolates, sugar casting, sugar pulling, marzipan, Isomalt and complex cake decoration. As a goal, the program seeks to provide students with an understanding of the essentials of food purchasing and cost control. These are skills the Community College believes are necessary for entry-level positions in the baking and pastry field.
The program, which begins in August, is structured to accommodate working students seeking to advance their careers. Each course is eight weeks long, combining online hands-on lab work with online instruction. Projects and assignments will be conducted in the student’s home (or workplace) and in four separate full-day baking labs held in the culinary kitchens at Yavapai College’s Sedona Center.