Course details

Summary

Are you a creative, detailed person who loves to bake? This hands-on, one-year baking course is perfect for you. You learn how to create beautiful and delicious breads, pies, cakes and biscuits - skills that will set you up for your first job in the bakery industry.

Practical? Yup! We team you up with other hospitality students to plan, prepare and bake for real-life campus events, so you learn about customer service as well.

You also get plenty of opportunities to use the equipment in our professional kitchens. Our expert tutors teach you about food safety, quality management, kitchen operations, and the production of baking for commercial sale.

With baking listed on New Zealand's skill shortage list, this course will get you started in an exciting and growing industry.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Introductory roles in craft bakeries, cake shops, cafe or factory operations.

TOPICS YOU'LL COVER

• Principles of Baking
• Bakery Cafe Skills
• Craft Baking skills
• Proficiency in Baking

Entry criteria

You must have:

• NCEA Level 2, OR
• a Level 3 New Zealand qualification in baking or cookery
• If you do not meet the academic requirements you may be given special admission if Toi Ohomai staff are satisfied you are capable of successfully completing the requirements.

English Language requirements:

Level 4 certificate

IELTS Academic score of 5.5 with no band score lower than 5.0; TOEFL Internet-based Test (iBT) score of 46 or higher (with a writing score of 20); TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 550 (with an essay score of 5.0 TWE); FCE, FCE for schools, with a score of 162, no less than 154 in each skill; NZCEL of Level 4 with the Academic endorsement; PToE (Academic) score of 42.