Baking and Pastry Arts Associate Degree imagination serves you— and customers—well. Learn how to transform creativity and precision into dazzling desserts and delicious baked goods people can’t help but crave.
• Build the foundation of hands-on skills and knowledge you need to craft pastries, artisan breads, plated desserts, chocolates, and confections. • Practice baking and pastry techniques, learn the principles of design, and understand the basics of food safety, nutrition, wine, and business. • Get real-world experience during a semesterlong internship at one of 2,000+ CIA-approved businesses, such as Godiva Chocolatier and Walt Disney World Resort. • Put everything you’ve learned into practice in the college’s award-winning Apple Pie Bakery Café. • Grow your career options—after you finish your associate degree, you can easily apply your credits towards a CIA bachelor’s degree.
Cool Courses Advanced Baking Principles Your challenge? Transform traditional recipes for breads, muffins, desserts, and other baked goods into new versions that accommodate special diets such as vegetarian, gluten-free, no-sugar-added, and dairy-free—and are just as delicious as the original! Specialty Breads Learn how to make amazing, sigh-worthy flatbreads, bagels, holiday breads, and traditional breads from around the world that will be served and enjoyed in the CIA’s student dining halls and award-winning restaurants. Chocolate and Confectionery Technology and Techniques Perfect for Willy Wonka wannabes, in this course you’ll temper chocolate, cook sugar, and learn about ingredient function as you make everything from truffles and gummy bears to rock candy, filled chocolates, and sugar crystal geodes. More cool courses: catalog.ciachef.edu 69 Credits Associate in Occupational Studies in Baking and Pastry Arts To learn more about program requirements, visit ciachef.edu/baking-pastry and click on the Curriculum tab.
Hot Careers With your associate degree in Baking and Pastry Arts, you can work in exciting positions like: • Artisan bread baker • Bakeshop supervisor • Baking and pastry arts instructor • Café owner/operator • Chocolatier • Restaurant or hotel pastry chef • And more!
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