College Certificate - Baking Foundations (Cohort Program) - Winnipeg

Students can create scrumptious baking in this hands-on program. They can learn to prepare delicious baked goods, pastries and desserts while developing a solid foundation that will serve them well in a wide variety of careers.

Students will join one of the most creative, fastest-paced areas of the hospitality industry, and learn skills that are in demand across Canada and around the world. This one-year interactive program features a high degree of hands-on experience through in-class baking production. They will learn preparation procedures, production methods and presentation techniques for baked goods, pastries and desserts.

Assiniboine Community College's dynamic, contemporary curriculum puts students in touch with the latest trends and practices used throughout the industry, and includes theory as well as practical instruction. They will receive specialist instruction on quick breads, cakes, icings, bonbons, frozen desserts, confectionery and chocolate. Students will enjoy the opportunity to take part in local food experiences.

Graduates will leave the program with a solid foundation of industry-standard, bakeshop skills. Students will emerge from the program with a head start in bakery management and leadership skills, menu development and design skills, and an appreciation for food security and food systems sustainability.

The Baking Foundations program prepares graduates to excel within patisseries, bake shops, hotel and restaurant dessert kitchens, catering companies and more. Students will work in traditional kitchens or in pop-up bakeshops and specialist businesses like cake shops, cupcake shops and even in Canada’s budding independent doughnut shop sector.