Programs

The Baking and Pastry Certificate program prepares you for employment in retail deli bakeries, fine dining restaurants, pastry and bakery shops, commercial baking, and hotel and resort bake shops.

In this program, you will:

• Learn through classroom study, hands-on training, and work experience.
• Receive extensive training in the development and preparation of breads, pies, pastries, cookies, petit fours, specialty breads and pastries, fruit bars, tortes, centerpieces, wedding cakes, and international desserts.
• Prepare for any one of a variety of positions in the industry — assistant pastry chef, assistant baker, head baker, lead baker, wedding cake decorator, and executive pastry chef.

Baker College of Muskegon’s Culinary Institute of Michigan (www.culinaryinstitutemi.com) will open in Fall 2009.