Earning your Associate Degree in Baking & Pastry Arts will prepare you for a successful career as a Baker or a Pastry Cook, or, with experience, as a Cake Decorator, Pastry Chef, Confectioner, or Chocolatier, while our Basic Certificate of Achievement prepares you for entry-level employment in bakeries, pastry shops, ...

After earning a vocational diploma in hotel management from North Oxon Technical College in 1987, he moved to London and began honing his culinary skills under chef Marco Pierre White at the restaurant Harvey's and under chef Albert Roux at La Gavroche.

In short, a pastry chef is a chef who specializes in the production of baked goods and sweets, and plays an important role in creating a complete and satisfying culinary experience for customers.

A growing number of would-be pastry chefs are enrolling in professional culinary institutes, as well as 2 or 4-year colleges with majors in hospitality or culinary arts. Some of the larger hotel and restaurants also offer their own in-house training and job placement programs for pastry chefs.