- Duration
- 1 Month
- Level
- Beginner
- Format
- Hands-on · Full ingredient kit provided · Small group
- Certification
- ISLII Pastry & Bakery Certificate — Class One
Our foundation baking programme, and the one to start with. Over a month you work through twenty-four separate bakes — breakfast pastries, biscuits, small cakes and the full range of celebration cakes — learning the doughs, batters, creams and finishing techniques that every one of them is built from. You leave able to produce a saleable counter, not a single showpiece.
What you'll be able to do
Every outcome below is assessed practically before your certificate is issued.
What you'll learn to make
All 24 items, baked by you, during the programme.
- Cinnamon Roll
- Honey Comb
- Donuts
- Gulab Jamun
- Cupcake
- Madeleines
- Cookies
- Butter Biscuits
- Basbusa
- Cake Pops
- Cake Slice
- Chocolate Cake
- Orange Cake
- Vanilla Cake
- Fruit Cake
- Pineapple Cake
- Caramel Cake
- Strawberry Cake
- Milk Cake
- Lotus Cake
- Pastry Cake
- Black Forest
- White Forest
- Red Velvet
How the programme runs
Doughs & Breakfast Bakes
Enriched dough method, proving and shaping — cinnamon rolls, honeycomb, donuts and gulab jamun.
Biscuits & Small Bakes
Cookies, butter biscuits, madeleines, basbusa, cupcakes and cake pops.
Cake Foundations
Creaming, folding and baking consistent sponges — vanilla, chocolate, orange, pineapple and fruit.
Celebration Cakes
Layering, filling and finishing — caramel, strawberry, milk, lotus, black forest, white forest and red velvet.
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Most students combine two or three programmes. These are the ones that stack best with this course.

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Ready to start Pastry & Bakery — Class One?
Places are capped so every student gets machine time. Send an enquiry and we'll confirm the next available intake.
