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Excellence Diploma Program
If you want to learn everything about baking and dream of becoming a Professional Pastry Chef, then this course is perfect for you!
Admission Open for Feb 24th and March 24th, 2025
How many months are you looking at?
6 Months
What’s it all About?
course summary
It’s a 6-month Level 3 Diploma in Pastry and Chocolate Art accredited by City and Guilds. The Whitecaps’ flagship, detailed, well-defined course that will take you from a beginner to a professional-level Baker, Patissier and Chocolatier.
Course Overview
INTRODUCTION TO BAKING TECHNIQUE: TOOLS AND INGREDIENTS
Get your fundamentals right. Get in-depth understanding of the different ingredients, tools, techniques, and processes you will use throughout the programs.
INTRODUCTION TO THE BASICS OF BAKING
Get hands-on experience in bread making, pick up the nuances of the business of bread and learn to make different, delicious, classic and modern varieties of bread as well as gourmet cookies from across the world.
FOOD SAFETY AND PERSONAL HYGIENE
An essential skill you must acquire before you begin baking, learn everything you need to know about maintaining personal hygiene and handling food safely as per established guidelines
INTRODUCTION TO CAKES, FILLINGS AND ICING
At long last, we finally get to everyone's favourite, the cake. Learn to make cakes from scratch to heavenly. Make classic cakes, add filling, icing, and gain knowledge about cake preparation, sponge technique, piping technique, basic chocolate garnishes and travel cakes.
ADVANCED CAKE DECORATING
Learn to make heavenly cakes from scratch. Make classic cakes, add filling, icing, and gain knowledge about cake preparation, sponge technique, piping technique, basic chocolate garnishes and travel cakes.
INTRODUCTION TO EGG THEORY AND BASIC PREP FOR FRENCH PASTRY
The egg is where everything begins. It's fundamental to baking and its mandatory to learn absolutely everything about its applications. Learn and make a number of recipes suitable for desserts, afternoon tea, plated desserts (including some of our signature eggless recipes with stunning seasonal flavours), and visually spectacular presentation using classic cakes and tortes.
ADVANCED EUROPEAN BREAD, BREAKFAST PASTRIES AND VIENNOISERIE
You know how to make bread, now learn to make exquisite European breads. Bake artisanal breads, and our chef's signature breakfast pastries, learn sour dough and its variations, and create viennoiseries, which are as delectable as they sound. Download Brochure
PETIT GATEAUX AND MODERN FRENCH PASTRY
Bring the much-acclaimed petit gateaux to the present age. Learn to make and delight people with French pastries tuned for the modern palate. Here, you will learn to create desserts for pastry shops, new textures and working with innovative flavours, serving temperatures and how to prepare a cost for your creations.
INTRODUCTION TO PASTRY PRODUCTS
Make various types of pastry dough based on butter, including short-crust pastry, puff pastry and choux pastry.
SUGAR CRAFT AND CAKE DECORATION
Sugar craft is the visceral skill that brings awe to your creations. Learn piping skills, royal icing, butter cream, fondant and gum paste, sugar flowers and also get to create unique themed cakes with a 3D miniature!
CHOCOLATE FOUNDATION
The world will always love chocolate. Learn how to love making it. Meet single-origin chocolate, make covertures, and gain an understanding of perfect tempering, garnishing, using cocoa butter and shelling.
CHOCOLATE MASTER CLASS
Now that you know the basics, explore advanced techniques. Gain mastery of chocolate fudge, nougat, ganache and the lovely French macaron. Make chocolate bars, bon bons and candies.
CHOCOLATE SHOWPIECE
Make a sensation. Learn to make artistic presentations that wows not just the onlooker but the industry itself. You will learn to understand, absorb and adapt to constantly-evolving showpiece trends and find your own distinct, stunning style.
MASTERCLASS FOR MODERN TRENDING DESSERTS
While you've got your fundamentals, and have learned to make some things truly delicious, it's important to keep up with the latest dessert trends. Find out what's going on in the latest international dessert menus as well as experimentation and modernisation of classic cakes and desserts, learn the new textures, compositions, flavours that are being used.
FRENCH STYLE MODERN ENTREMET
Get great at making multi-layered desserts using different textures, creamy and crunchy, with fruits and chocolates. Master layers, inserts, French biscuits, glazing, velvet spray, chocolate mousse and assembly.
CONCEPTUALIZE YOUR OWN PLATED DESSERT
Find out what's going on in the latest international dessert menus as well as experimentation and modernization of classic cakes. Learn the new textures, compositions and flavours being used.
FUNDAMENTALS OF BAKING BREAD
Learn about different leavening agents and their action with different ingredients in the process of bread making. Gain an ability to assess the quality of baked food, understand the faults and apply the necessary measu res to correct them.
Learn:
- Science of Baking Bread
- International Breads
- Lean Doughe
- Enriched Dough
ADVANCED BREAKFAST PASTRIES AND VIENNOISERIE
Crowd-pleasers and Chef-Signature recipes are yours for the taking.
Learn:
- Breakfast Pastries/ Viennoiserie
- Chef's Signature Breakfast Pastries Croissant
- Danish
ARTISAN BREADS
Learn about how various leavening agents will react with different ingredients in the process of bread-making. Gain the ability to assess the quality of baked goods, understand the faults and apply the necessary measures to correct them.
What Lies Beyond Baking?
Food Photography Classes
Photographing food is something we all love to do. From a casual ‘clicker’ to a pro, who doesn’t do it? In the business of Pastry, a great picture says much more than a ‘thousand words’. In these classes, you will be taught a mix of technical as well as creative concepts related to Food and Photography.
France Internship Program
Learn the Art of Pastry from the cradle of its birth, France. We have tied-up with a Global Education Firm to facilitate internships for you for a period of 4-6 months. After all, what can be better that getting paid in Euros, while learning with the best?
Budgeting & Costing Sessions
In this module, you will be taught the basic concepts of food costing, because we understand that a business not only needs a touch of art, but also a sense of financial prudence.
Entrepreneurship Classes
Becoming a Food Entrepreneur is a shared dream amongst all of us. Let’s understand and learn how to make that happen from professionals who have done just that. Whether you dream of setting up a café, a commercial kitchen, or a home-baking business, these classes will provide you the required foundation.
What's the cherry on the cake?
Industrial Visit
Observe and interact with professionals from known hotel chains by visiting their place of work. Learn how commercial kitchens look, how is the process managed, the system, the hierarchy and much more!
Marketing & Branding Sessions
What would you prefer – a Lemon Cup Cake or Lemon Sponge with a white chocolate buttercream and white chocolate shavings? The latter one, right? Well, there is a way to present brand and market desserts. Learn concepts of marketing & branding to understand business, and to better serve your customers.
Alumni Talk
Hear from your peer group on how they utilized what they learnt at Whitecaps and materialized their dreams of making it big in the profession. These talks will be interactive sessions between you and the Whitecaps alumni; hear them, learn from them and network with them.
Hygiene & Food Safety Classes
A clean working station and hygienic kitchen are the hallmarks of a true chef. Well we don’t just preach this, we practice it, and we also impart it. Global practices, principles and standards for food safety form the core of these classes.
Fee Structure
To make things more convenient for our students, we’ve divided the fees into two parts, a booking amount that will enable
us to secure your seat and arrange resources for your course, and the remaining amount before the course commences.
The fees includes Course Fee, Ingredients Cost, Personal Toolkit, Chef coats, industrial visit, reading material & 18% GST.
An examination fee to be paid separately to write the City & Guilds certification exam.
Scholarship
Here’s the perfect topping you could ask for! Apply for our scholarship exam on the basics of baking and food hygiene, and stand a chance to win scholarship discounts of up to Rs 50,000
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