Advanced Pastries and Cakes

Students will learn how to produce specialty occasion cakes and pastries utilizing techniques in cake and pastry production and design. Students will incorporate beginning bakeshop skills, baking and pastry making techniques and technologies in producing a variety of advanced pastries and cakes. Topics will include: frostings, various mixing methods, working with multiple cake decorating mediums, plate presentation, petit fours, and seasonality. Students will also be taught to accurately read and measure recipes. (FT)