Certificate in Baking Foundations

Assiniboine Community College - North Hill Campus (Brandon)

Canada,Manitoba

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13 Months

Duration

CAD 18,195/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 200

Application Fee

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Canada, Manitoba

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1861

Total Students: 3,200 +

Int. Students: 500 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

1035 1st St N, Brandon, MB R7A 2Y1, Canada

Certificate in Baking Foundations

Program Overview

Our ten-month Baking Foundations certificate program (13-months for international students) provides job skills to work in entry-level positions such as baker, pastry chef, patisserie, or bakery assistant. 

Bakers prepare bread, rolls, muffins, pies, pastries, cakes and cookies in retail and wholesale bakeries and dining establishments. They are employed in bakeries, supermarkets, catering companies, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, and other institutions, or they may be self-employed.  

Program Learning Outcomes 

  • Identify the workings and the effects of ingredients on one another and predict how the end product will be affected. 
  • Perform problem-solving and troubleshooting recipes. 
  • Perform basic techniques involved in the daily production of a bakery and pastry shop. 
  • Recognize and produce both classical and modern baked goods. 
  • Apply food safety principles and practices as identified by health regulations. 
  • Apply basic mathematical principles and recipe conversions, bakery formulations, and percentages. 
  • Demonstrate an understanding of kitchen etiquette and professionalism. 
  • Apply proper sanitation and safety techniques while demonstrating proper safe work procedures on equipment 
  • Apply purchasing principles to the operation of a bakery, and/or pastry shop. 
  • Demonstrate baking theory and principles in the production of quality desserts. 
  • Demonstrate an understanding of baking and pastry foundations. 
  • Practice skills used in the daily operation of a bakery, including cost controls, food costs, percentages, labour costs, and inventory controls.