Baking & Culinary Arts

A well-rounded introduction to fundamental cooking and baking techniques, help you learn to master a series of inspired classic dishes.

Building this important foundation knowledge of the French Culinary tradition unlocks a deeper understanding of cookery that can then be applied to many other styles of baking and cooking. Fresh, high quality local ingredients are the basis of what we prepare every day.

 

Example dishes:

• Quiche Lorraine with shortcrust pastry, bacon and mesclun salad

• Choux puff with chocolate ganache and crème patissiere

• Pan-seared snapper with roast red pepper salsa

• Seared beef sirloin with parsley butter

• Eggs Benedict with crispy bacon on English muffins

• From shortbread to Chocolate brownie

• From classic sponge with Chantilly cream to Orange Cake with lemon cream

Food Safety Training

You will learn about food safety in a commercial kitchen and complete unit standards-based certification.

 

Knife Skills

You will learn essential knife skills to ensure safe and efficient equipment use, providing training you will use for the duration of your career.

 

GRADUATE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates will be able to work as bakers and junior chefs in cafés, restaurants, catering, bars, clubs, resorts and hotels. Due to the highly practical nature of this course, NZSFW graduates are always attractive to prospective empoyers. 

People are spending millions every year at in culinary industries indluding cafés, restaurants, local supermarkets and bakeries. This demand has lead to great job opportunities for skilled bakers.