The Pastry Arts associate’s degree from Walnut Hill College teaches both the basics and specialized skills that you need to start a career as a pastry chef.
The Pastry Arts associate’s degree from Walnut Hill College teaches both the basics and specialized skills that you need to start a career as a pastry chef.
You’ll get experience working in operational pastry kitchens, where you’ll learn fundamental pastry techniques from expert instructors like John Gallagher, the 2012 ACF Pastry Chef of the Year, developing the creative and professional skills needed to succeed in the pastry field.
Essential courses like Pastry Techniques, Professional Bread Baking, and Cake Baking and Decorating will give you the fundamentals, while more specialized courses like Chocolates and Confections, European Tortes and Gateaux, and Wedding Cakes help you refine and focus your skills.
Founded in 1974 as The Restaurant School, Walnut Hill College is one of Philadelphia’s first colleges to focus on excellence in hospitality education. We prepare our students for the real world by combining classroom teaching with hands-on training in our award-winning restaurants, which are open to the public.
Of course, the training we offer doesn’t just happen on campus. Our students live and learn in the heart of University City, Philadelphia, home to one of the largest student populations in America. With a bustling environment of restaurants and hotels right in our backyard, our students have incredible access to top-notch internships and jobs.
And well beyond Philadelphia, our students go on tuition-paid travel adventures around the world! Hospitality tours of France and England and a cruise and resort tour of Florida & the Bahamas are the highlight of our programs. By studying the industry both locally and globally, students from Walnut Hill College can expand their knowledge and thrive wherever their careers take them.
The Pastry Series Curriculum ranges from basic topics to more advanced subjects. Students learn through both demonstrative lectures and hands-on lessons in the professional kitchen. Classic Cooking has revised, revamped, and reformed the Curriculum to be as engrossing and exciting as possible.
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The Pastry and Baking Certificate program offers a focused, hands-on, professional approach to baking breads, cakes and pastries, including development of marketable cake decorating skills???
The Associate of Applied Science in Baking and Pastry Arts Program will prepare you in the fundamental skills of classical and modern pastries, bread, cake, ice cream and confections.
In our professional bakery you will be taught by talented and experienced chef-instructors who love to teach and for students to succeed. You will begin with the fundamentals of using baking and pastry tools and starting to develop the skills and techniques.
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