The Pastry Project provides free baking and pastry training to individuals with barriers to education and employment in the industry.
In our 14-week free baking and pastry training program we focus on in-demand technical skills, time management, teamwork, and problem-solving. Starting with the creaming method, students learn to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie and over the course of the program develop skills to produce high quality quick breads, cakes, tarts, cream puffs, croissants and more.
Classes are a full day each week for 14 weeks plus one Saturday per month.
Uniforms, curriculum materials, transit stipends, childcare stipends, other needs-based stipends, and lunches are all provided!
When students graduate ready to work in the industry, we help them apply to jobs with our hiring partners. These bakeries, dessert shops and grocery stores have all agreed to consider completion of our program as the work experience needed for an entry level job with them! Hiring partners include: Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, Lavish Roots, Hood Famous Bakeshop, Saint Bread, Macrina, PCC Community Markets, Trophy Cupcakes, Hot Cakes, Le Pichet, Princi, and more!
Founded in 2019 by two pastry-loving, justice-driven women. We started The Pastry Project to make pastry education and employment more equitable. Our focus is to have fun and do good, and for our community to join us in this work! We’ve created products like our pastry kit subscription, take & bake cookie dough, and chef-instructed classes so that bakers all over the country can join us in our mission to break barriers and bake with purpose.
Heather + Emily
We met years ago at Molly Moon’s Ice Cream, where Heather was the Head Chef and Emily was the Director of Social Impact.
Through our work together trying to place individuals from community partners at a job in a fast-paced ice cream kitchen, we found there were barriers to opportunity for many. We started The Pastry Project to make a pastry education and job more accessible and to create opportunity for those that need it.
The Pastry Project provides 14 weeks of free baking and pastry job skills training, soft skills practice and job placement assistance to individuals with barriers.
We work with several Seattle-area nonprofit partners who refer applicants to our program and over thirty Seattle bakery, dessert shop and grocery store partners to help place our students in jobs using their skills after graduation.
We’re all about having fun and doing good - come check us out at our community space in Pioneer Square.
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