What to expect in Bakery and Confectionery Course?

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A career as a confectioner or baker isn’t limited to baking cakes and breads. It is a specialised skill wherein one needs to constantly work towards innovating and experimenting in order to make an end product which not only tastes delicious but looks extraordinary.

Aspirants have to stand-out if they want to make their presence felt in this career profile. This is extremely necessary in today’s time and age wherein everything is available at the touch of a fingertip.

Thus, it is advisable to consider baking and confectionery as both an art and science because the entire process begins with deciding the ingredients that you will use and how you mix them up, but your task doesn’t end there, after this you need to determine how to present your product.

The industry has a huge demand for well-trained and efficient bakers and this is primarily due to the increasing number of restaurants, bakeries and confectionery stores in our country.

So, much so that even on festivals, people these days tend to give the traditional mithai shop a miss and head out to a good bakery so that their loved ones can savour their taste buds with pastries/cakes.

The career options available after pursuing a course in baking and confectionery are:

• Baker
• Cake Decorator
• Pastry Chef
• Food Technologist

However, anyone who is looking to make a career in this field need to know that at the time when everyone is having a relaxed time, i.e., festivals and the wedding season, you would have to put in extra hours. Also, the work atmosphere for a baker mostly involves working in high temperatures and noisy surroundings.

About the course

Famous bakers share that every course in baking and confectionery ideally teaches candidates how to weigh and measure ingredients. This task is followed by educating them on how to mix, divide as well mould dough followed by informing on how to set the dough so that it rises as per requirement. Baking and Confectionery courses also teach aspirants how to bake different types of breads as well as confectionery products. Once individuals learn all these skills, they are taught how to decorate their final product so that it looks presentable.

These days many popular bakeries conduct classes wherein they teach interested candidates how to create a certain type of pudding or cake.

However, for those candidates who are interested in receiving some professional qualification in this field we would like to inform you that mostly there are not any bachelor’s degree programmes in bakery and confectionery.

But many good colleges offer diploma programmes wherein trained faculty imparts education in the field of baking and confectionery to students. SGT University is one such college which offers one year duration “Diploma in Bakery and Confectionery” programme to candidates. In this course, one academic year comprises of 34-36 weeks of training and its duration is one year.

The Diploma in Bakery and Confectionery programmes at SGT University is offered under the Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management. The college offers admission to only 20 candidates in one academic session. The admission process for the same commences in the month of August.

Eligibility

It is advisable that if one is seeking admission in a bakery and confectionery course then he/she should be acquainted with baking methodology as well as basic techniques of food preparation.

Apart from this, in order to secure admissions in diploma programmes in bakery and confectionery field, one should have cleared their 10+2 from a recognised board with atleast 45% aggregate.

Admission Process

In most colleges candidates are offered admissions in the bakery and confectionery course if they meet the eligibility criteria. However, if a scenario so arises wherein applications received for admissions are up to three times the intake then in such a situation, an entrance exam is conducted to offer admissions to deserving candidates.

Fee

Taking SGT University’s course as a reference, the fee charged for a Diploma programme in Bakery and Confectionery is around Rs 1,50,000 per annum.

Subjects to study

The syllabus for a course in Bakery and Confectionery as a discipline mostly includes the below mentioned topics:

Semester-I

• Bakery & Confectionery- I
• Hospitality & Tourism
• Hygiene and Upkeep
• Application of computers 
• Communication  Skills
• Personality Development

Semester II

• Bakery & Confectionery-II
• Commodities Costing & Accounts
• Business Communications

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