Baking & Pastry (AAS)
The Baking & Pastry program provides students with culinary skills combined with a focus on baking and pastry. This combination skill set and business knowledge enhances each graduate's ability to meet the challenges of an increasingly demanding and rapidly changing field. Two strengths of the program of study are an emphasis on culinary skills, as well as the core baking and pastry courses and the business courses.
The program focuses upon both production and individualized skills necessary to gain employment in bakeries, restaurants, and other catering or institutional settings. In addition to technical skills, the program offers food safety and sanitation, nutrition and kitchen supervision/career development, and related business courses to support their professional skills for employment and supervision. The program also includes an internship at a quality food service operation and culminates with a Capstone project. This project consists of a complete business plan to open a commercial baking and pastry facility.