Baking and Pastry Arts

Arizona Culinary Institute

In as short as nine months' time, students can complete the intensive diploma program in culinary arts specializing in baking and managing restaurants at Arizona Culinary Institute.

Baker College Campus

Culinary Arts Associate of Business Degree

This program gives students the skills and knowledge to become a chef or work in other kitchen supervisory positions.

When you are trained in the culinary arts, you can be employed by restaurants, hotels, institutional settings, delis and catering companies, where you will put to work your experience at creating culinary specialties and managing operations.

Baking and Pastry: Certificate

Designed to prepare graduates for employment in retail deli-bakeries, fine dining restaurants, pastry and bakery shops, commercial baking, and hotel and resort bake shops is the goal of the one-year Baking and Pastry Certificate.

Culinary Academy

The Culinary Academy of Long Island offers pastry and baking arts training in New York, with morning or evening classes.

Florida Culinary Institute

If you are looking for a career in the baking industry, the Florida Culinary Institute's International Baking and Pastry program can provide you with knowledge of the theory behind a broad range of baking and pastry techniques and allow you to gain practical experience in the field. Laboratory activities with extensive periods of hands-on practical experience in professionally-equipped culinary laboratories are emphasized.

Johnson & Wales University

Johnson & Wales University offers three different types of baking and pastry degree programs.

Keiser University - Center for Culinary Arts

A.S. Degree - Culinary Arts

For curriculum consisting of coursework in food service production, sanitation, nutrition, management, storeroom operations, meat cutting, and various cuisines, we offer an Associate of Science degree in our Culinary Arts program.

A.S. Degree - Baking and Pastry Arts

The Associate of Science degree in Baking and Pastry Arts will teach you the science behind a baking profession. Delicious foods such as quick breads, yeast breads, cakes, frozen desserts, centerpieces, candies, cookies and various pastries will be made by students in the program using an array of quality equipment and implements.

Kendall College

Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Arts

The Kendall College Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Arts degree will give you a total education in the culinary arts. This program will help students become familiar with the tools and equipment used in professional kitchen settings. The students will be able to bake many desserts and pastries after the program. Through extensive, hands-on experience, starting with the basics, your confidence will increase, along with your knowledge of cooking techniques and ingredients, as you master each new process.

Associate degree in Culinary Arts

Kendall’s two-year Associate degree in Culinary Arts blends the art and science of food cooking with an introduction to important business management. Preparing yourself with a comprehensive combination such as this helps to guarantee success in today's competitive culinary job market. From beginning coursework where you learn culinary basics, our training will complete with your cooking in our fine dining setting in Chicago rated by Zagat! Comprehensive practical exams are administered after the first and seventh quarters to allow you to demonstrate your mastery of concepts and techniques presented in the previous quarters.

Bachelor degree, Kendall's A.A.S. Accelerated Culinary Arts program

For those students who already possess their Bachelor degree, Kendall offers a program we call Accelerated Culinary Arts. You'll be on the fast track to an Associate degree in the Culinary Arts with our Accelerated Culinary Arts program. Our accelerated program offers you the unique opportunity of earning your Associates degree in an abbreviated time frame. This program will allow you to benefit from a comprehensive culinary arts curriculum, focused on rigorous hands-on experience, in the award winning facilities that characterize our traditional A.A.S. program.

Associate degree in Baking and Pastry Arts

Kendall's state-of-the-art bakeshop facilities in Chicago provide the setting for your course work in the two-year Associate degree program in Baking and Pastry Arts. This degree will give you the competitive leg up for a career in a professional pastry kitchen or bakeshop, or in a business with baking and pastry product lines. You will be thoroughly prepared in theory and practical application fundamentals relating to baking and pastries preparation.

Baking and Pastry Certificate:

If you are considering entering the pastry and baking field, you should consider a Baking and Pastry Certificate. A Certificate program in Baking and Pastry is offered by Kendall, involving rich knowledge and including an introductory overview on the art of baking and pastry. The program can be completed in less than one year. After completing the Certificate program, many students elect to continue their education by pursuing an Associate or Bachelor degree in Culinary Arts.

Professional Catering/Personal Chef Certificate:

If you have ever wished to start your own small catering business, or considered becoming a personal chef, we offer a Professional Catering/Personal Chef Certificate program which will help you to launch your dream career. Achieving Kendall's Professional Catering/Personal Chef certificate enables you to pursue your culinary interests. This is a part-time program taught by Kendall faculty in which you will learn not only cooking fundamentals, but business and marketing essentials, all within a 24-quarter hour program.

Professional Cookery Certificate:

Interested in significantly expanding your culinary arts knowledge and proficiency, or are you looking to directly enter the foodservice industries? Practical, specialized culinary skills are provided with Kendall's Professional Cookery Certificate, and it will also be a concrete foundation for culinary endeavors in the future. When you take this 24-quarter hour course you will be instructed by Kendall teachers. Graduates of our Certificate program may be interested in working on an Associate or Bachelor Culinary Arts degree.

Kitchen Academy

Would you like to develop your cooking and baking skills? Kitchen Academy's curriculum concentrates on the techniques required in the fast-paced professional kitchens of today.

Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America

Graduates of the Le Cordon Bleu Pâtisserie and Baking program should be qualified to work in entry-level jobs as Pâtisserie chefs in renowned restaurants or catering businesses.

Lincoln College of Technology

You can fine-tune your innate baking skills with Lincoln College of Technology's International Baking and Pastry program.

Lincoln Tech

With Lincoln Tech's International Baking and Pastry program you can develop your natural talents for baking. Students receive hands-on training with an emphasis on preparation, technique, and professionalism.

Robert Morris College

If you have the passion to combine your interests and talents into a rewarding career, then prepare yourself for the chance of a lifetime with an exciting career in culinary arts. All the foundations, skills and hands-on experience that you need for a successful career in any culinary field is available to you when you enroll in the accredited degree program at the Institute of Culinary Arts at Robert Morris College.

Salter College

Sullivan University

An Associate of Science degree in Baking and Pastry Arts from Sullivan University can help prepare you to work as a baker or pastry chef.

The Art Institutes

You can bring out your inner pastry chef by gaining a good foundation in the baking and pastry arts with The Art Institutes.

The Culinary Institute of America

Would you like to be an executive pastry chef of a popular bakery café? A pastry chef for a Fortune 500 corporation? Or perhaps a renowned Food Network baker? If you are looking for a successful career in the baking and pastry arts, The Culinary Institute of America is a good place to start.

The French Culinary Institute

Do you feel passionate about fine pastry, cakes, dessert items, and bread? The French Culinary Institute offers two programs: Classic Pastry Arts and the International Art of Bread Baking.

YTI Career Institute

Those who are artistic and creative and enjoy working with food that looks as good as it tastes should consider a career in the pastry arts. You can find pastry arts graduates in every area of the food service industry, from fine dining establishments and specialty bakeries, to grocery stores and large-scale producers of baked goods. There are many things that the pastry chef may be responsible for, but here are a few: making the dessert menu for a local restaurant, making any pies and cakes that a neighborhood bakery has requested, or even making a large amount of pastries and/or baked good for the local grocery stores.

Ashworth College

Keiser University

Would you like to become a professional baker? Keiser University can teach you to make quick breads, yeast breads, cakes, frozen desserts, centerpieces, candies, cookies, and pastries.

Keystone Technical Institute

Connecticut Culinary Institute

There are numerous reasons that Connecticut Culinary Institute (CCI) is an outstanding school. Our team of people is first and foremost. CCI instructors and staff are all professional, sincere, and dedicated to their fields. The faculty and entire school focus on the progress each individual attending our institute makes. We may be small, but we don't let anyone fall through the cracks of our high-quality school. This program is taught in small classes, where the majority of your time is actually spent cooking under the watchful eye of qualified instructors.

Institute of Culinary Education

The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE®) provides a highly recognized and accredited career training program running for a period of six to eleven months in culinary arts, pastry and baking, arts and culinary management. The student body is comprised of people from around the world, in a balanced 50% male to female ratio. The class size of the culinary management program averages 17 students, while the culinary arts, pastry, and baking programs average 12 students.

The Culinary Academy of Long Island

The Culinary Academy of Long Island has long been recognized for excellence and commitment in preparing students for employment in the hospitality industry.