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Excellence Diploma Program
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Sept 25
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6 Months

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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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ADVANCED CAKE DECORATING
Weddings are where some of the sweetest moments of life live. And they usually revolve around the wedding cake. Learn to make tiered masterpieces that will have everyone watering. Get your hands into and knowledgeable with advanced sugar craft, with fondant icing, cake stacking, airbrushing, and decorating with advanced and intricate sugar flowers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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INTRODUCTION TO PASTRY PRODUCTS
Make various types of pastry dough based on butter, including short-crust pastry, puff pastry and choux pastry.
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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 you create your uniquely-themed cake with a 3D miniature!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CONCEPTUALIZE YOUR OWN PLATED DESSERT
Finally, while you’ve learned most of what there is to know. It is time to make what only you can make. Plan the correct texture, choose the correct platter, and get the combination of flavours, colour and temperature right and make the piece you were destined to make.
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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 measures 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
Discover enriched-bread making containing multiple variations and creatively designed breads.
Learn:
- Traditional European Bread
- Advanced European Bread
- Artisan Breads
- Sour Dough and variations

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.
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!
France Internship Program
Marketing & Branding Sessions
Budgeting & Costing Sessions
Alumni Talk
Entrepreneurship Classes
Hygiene & Food Safety Classes
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
Budgeting & Costing Sessions
Entrepreneurship Classes
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
Alumni Talk
Hygiene & Food Safety Classes
Fee Structure
Scholarship
Photo Bank
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