Learning to work with pastry requires extensive training, patience and commitment. Making perfect pastry is an art form. Finding a good school with experienced tutors who can take you step-by-step through the learning process is vital in order to gain employment in top-quality restaurants or when starting your own business. Pastry chefs are in demand these days and you can find work in restaurants, hotels, resorts, cruise ships and more.
Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Patisserie
The school, in Yssengeaux, France, offers programs in the art of French pastry for international students. There is an intensive, five-month pastry program taught in English that includes 520 hours working in state-of-the-art pastry laboratories and 40 hours of applied technology. The tutors are all talented chefs and the course includes learning about doughs and batters, cakes, ice cream and sorbet, creams, chocolate, dessert plates, catering, decorations and breads, viennoiserie, hygiene and security. The classes are small, accommodating only 12 people at a time. After the five months' training, you will put your new skills to work through an internship in a restaurant or pastry boutique. The minimum time for the internship is one month. The school offers classes in basic French to help you understand the language on a functional level. The cost for the five-month course, in 2011, was 13,600 Euros, and 14,500 Euros for the October start date.
Notter School of Pastry Arts
The school is in Orlando, Florida, and the harmonious settings help to enhance creative flow. The courses offer true innovative flair blended with the fundamentals of European practice.
Programs offered include a 24-week European Pastry and Baking Diploma Program that was developed and is taught by world pastry champions, Ewald Notter and Anil Rohira. It teaches artistic, European fundamentals and principles of pastry and baking techniques in small classes. Continuing-education courses provide professional knowledge of progression and technology, theory and individual artistic expression. You do not need pastry experience to enroll in the course but a high school diploma or GED is needed. Total tuition costs for those enrolling in January and July is $21,700, as of 2011.
Cocoa Black Everything Chocolate
Cocoa Black is a pastry school located in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. It offers professional pastry chef courses that teach advanced pastry techniques. The pastry chef courses attract students from around the world and the classes are small with only up to four students at a time. The school offers a number of pastry chef courses to choose from, and each one puts attention on a specific skill set. There are courses for beginners and for more advanced students wishing to refresh existing skills or learn new ones. The school also offers classes on cake making for those that just wish to attend one day classes.
San Francisco Baking Institute (SFBI)
The SFBI is a world famous leader in pastry and bread education. Students receive hands-on and real life experience with all the latest baking equipment and technology. The courses offered are the SFBI Bread and Pastry Professional Training Programs. There are only up to 16 students at a time so there is plenty of focus on individual requirements. As part of the curriculum, further training options can include two weeks in Paris, France, one week of which is spent at the Ecole Superieurede Cuisine Francaise-Ferrandi.
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