French Pastry School-Designed Baker Training (Voucher Included)

Developed by the master bakers of The French Pastry School, this comprehensive, 100% online baking and pastry course delivers an immersive learning experience. This fully self-paced bundled training brings together four components: Introduction to Pastry Arts, Bread Baking Arts, Cake Baking & Decorating Basics, and the World Food Safety Organization Food Protection Manager (FPM) certification.

You will start with a 60-hour foundational course that introduces you to essential ingredients and core skills across baking, pastry, and decorating. Next, you will take an exciting 180-day deep dive into the technical world of baker's math, quick breads, and yeasted artisan loaves. Your training then advances to the art of presentation, covering more than 80 recipes, traditional buttercreams, and complex sculpted cakes.

The bread-baking arts sequence explores traditional and contemporary methodologies, helping you achieve technical competence in processing hot and cold process sponges, artisan pre-ferments (biga, poolish, and levain), yeasted enriched doughs, and classical laminated pastries like croissants and puff pastry. To complement your technical training, this cake decoration training bundle features an embedded food safety suite certified by the World Food Safety Organization (WFSO). This track guides you from initial safe handling practices and cross-contamination blockades up to food safety leadership principles and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system management.

The course culminates with a high-level capstone project, helping you showcase the modern cross-functional capabilities, artistic precision, and operational confidence demanded by elite commercial bakeries and luxury hospitality brands worldwide. This complete bundle provides the industry-recognized credentials you need to stand out in today's marketplace.

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This is not an instructor-facilitated course; however, the program's curriculum is authored and guided by an elite team of world-class chefs, educators, and food anthropologists with a combined total of over 125 years of professional foodservice and academic leadership experience. The development team features executive-level instructors and former administrators from elite traditional brick-and-mortar institutions, including Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Microsoft Word Online
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.