Key Info
Learning Area Catering
Delivery Mode Full-time
Duration 1 Year
Dates & Locations
Course Type 16-19
Location Cornwall College St Austell
Start Date 07/09/2021
Fees Tuition Fees: £3345.00
If you can’t get enough of cakes, pastry, bread and you have your heart set on becoming a Patisseire this is the course for you to hone your skills using a selection of techniques building on your existing knowledge, to enable advanced techniques.
The first thing you’ll notice about this course is that it’s about practical learning – you’ll be spending a lot of time in our dedicated pastry kitchen, preparing a range of delicious baked goods, which can be sold in our little shop.
You’ll be looking at everything and producing delights from the world of pastry: fermented dough and batter products, petits fours, paste products, hot cold and frozen desserts, biscuit cake and sponges, chocolates, and as you progress, you can let your imagination run wild and produce a showpiece. To get you ready and prepared for work you will also undertake food safety supervision, supervision in the professional kitchen, sustainability and gastronomy.
Our kitchens are well equipped and have all that you need to have an experience, to get you ready, to advance in the world of pastry. We have connections in industry and supported by Craft Guild of Chefs and Master Chefs of Great Britain, employers know that a qualification from The Cornwall College Group means that you will achieve the very best skills. If you love the world of pastry and you want to enhance or progress your skills this is the best place to finish or further your practice to a degree
The qualification is designed to help you enter employment with higher level of responsibility or at a more prestigious establishment.
We also have a meaningful employer engagement, where you meet employers from across the hospitality industry, they share their skills from wine/ beer tasting to demonstrations of bread and chocolate.
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Ben Ambridge
Ben studied professional cookery and after travelling the world, he has settled down in Cornwall working as the Executive Chef at The Longstore. One of his most memorable experiences at Cornwall College was being nominated for a City and Guilds achievement award by his lecturer. He went on to win the award, attending the presentation at Buckingham Palace.
"The course covered all areas needed to equip me with the knowledge to enter a professional kitchen. I traveled around the world with the skills I had learnt. I settled back down in Cornwall and have worked my way up to executive chef, overseeing 3 kitchens. I write menus, train staff, team building and quality control of all sites."
