The Cake Decorating Certificate is designed to provide students with skills specific to cake decorating including baking cakes, preparing different icings, slicing and icing cakes, piping skills, gum paste and fondant work. Upon completion, the student will be prepared for a position at most any bakery which prepares cakes and desserts.
Courses include CUL-110: Sanitation and Safety, CUL-142: Fundamentals of Food, BPA-210: Cake Design and Decorating and BPA-212: Advanced Cake Decorating. The Cake Design and Decorating class culminates with the student entering a tiered cake in a pastry competition.
This certificate can be finished in 24 weeks.
* - optional class (adding it increases length of time to complete certificate to 32 weeks)