Learn professional techniques for artisanal bread and fine pastry production from Canada’s top bakers in a fully equipped industrial kitchen. What you will learn Health, sanitation, and safety Use of bakery equipment including scales, mixers, proofers, and ovens Knife skills Theoretical baking principles and processes Ingredients and methodology Biscuits and muffins Pie dough and straight dough Aeration and emulsification Cookies, pies, tarts Croissant, Danish, and puff dough lamination Cakes, cookies, sponges Buttercreams, glazes, ganaches Dessert plating and presentation Composition, use of colours and textures Pastries, slices, and squares Quickbreads and loaf cakes Deep-fat frying Yeast doughnuts, cake doughnuts, French crullers Fermentation, leavening, gluten development Wild yeast, sourdough starters, biga, poolish Hearth baking