Discover Your Inner Baker
Imagine the smell of freshly baked bread and cakes, the warm buttery aroma of flaky pastries cooling on the rack. Such heavenly products need not stay a fantasy but can be baked into reality by your own hands. Even a novice to the world of baking can create a culinary masterpiece, with the right guidance. This is where we come in. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to our professional baking classes and the various pastry courses offered here at the Academy of Pastry and Culinary Arts.
Beginner-friendly
Made for beginners and novices, the professional baking courses will help achieve all your pastry dreams . 1440 hours of hands-on training from chefs of international renown will hone your talents and give you the baking training you need to achieve new heights. Students will learn essential skills to help them hold their own in the professional baking world, such as how to create new recipes, choosing the right ingredients, and even cover aspects such as business management and brand development.
Becoming a Pastry Chef
For those interested in pursuing this as a career, our 9 month advance display is ideal. A wide and in-depth lesson plan covers skills such as chocolate-making, chocolate displays, sugar art, plated desserts, and modern French pastries. The course helps students to create works of art and precision that will grant them placements in hotels, restaurants, and bakeries, or start patisseries of their own.
Getting into Baking
For a closer look into the diverse and delicate art of pastry, the professional pastry classes offer a more rigorous training to students, perfecting their knowledge in vital culinary skills like bread baking, cake baking and decorating, pastry designing and chocolate work. The smaller class-strength also provides a more personal and thorough hands-on experience. Baking a cake can either be, well, a piece of cake, or a harrowing disaster, depending on how well you know the intricacies of cake baking. In our pastry classes, you can learn to tackle projects like tiered cakes, fondant art, cake decoration and flavour profiling. Gain
confidence to handle complex tasks like wedding cakes or a simple sponge cake.The cake classes fees can be found on our website.
6 Week Programmes
The Academy of Pastry and Culinary Arts (APCA) offers 6 week programmes in 2 categories. One is an Intensive Pastry Programme for people that wish to pursue pastry making and baking professionally but do not have enough time to devote to a full course. The other is an Eggless Baking Certificate Programme to match the increase in demand for eggless desserts in India.
Intensive Pastry Programme
This six-week programme in Pastry and Bakery Arts is customised to make the most of its limited time frame to inculcate the lessons needed to follow through on one’s passion for pastry. Breads, tarts, chocolates, ice creams, French pastries, Travel Cakes and cookies are covered in this programme. To top it off, the course offers classes on business management, budgeting, menu planning, logistics and other such skills for budding entrepreneurs.
Eggless Baking Certificate Programme
India is a nation with a colourful array of people and lifestyles, making it no surprise that the market for eggless desserts and baked goods has only widened in the past couple of years. To cater to this rise in demand, APCA is conducting a six-week programme centred around making flawless creations while omitting eggs in the mix. The programme is beneficial to both beginners and seasoned bakers, and students are even allowed to take the tasty treats back home to share.
Internship Opportunities
The Academy of Pastry and Culinary Arts offers a holistic education to cultivate all-rounded students, with both theory and practical lessons. We offer internship opportunities with leading hotels and stand alone pastry shops. Placements and Career Opportunities Our Bakery and Pastry Chef Courses have a wide reach for opportunities in National and International markets. Entrepreneurship is encouraged and nurtured by our staff gilded with world-class chefs. APCA offers job placement assistance at reputed hotels and restaurants such as Taj, ITC Hotels, The Oberoi Group. Allow us to help you chase your dreams here at the Academy of Pastry and Culinary Arts by moulding your skills, harnessing your passion to reach greater heights and transforming your career in baking. Join us on your journey to discovering the next great pastry chef and baker within you.