A taste of the professional pastry kitchen for the serious amateur
Do your fantasies involve chocolate? Does the mere mention of making exquisite cakes or elegant French desserts make you tingle? We know your type - and designed this incredible Pastry Techniques course specifically for you.
Guided by the same inspiring Chef-Instructors who teach our career students, you'll train in small, high-energy classes that are hands-on and exciting. You'll learn to handle a pastry bag with grace, as sophisticated techniques and high-level skills become second nature. And you'll do it all at your own well-equipped workstation with the identical ingredients used in New York's top bakeries and restaurants. This is the caliber of in-depth training you'd expect from The French Culinary Institute.


Pastry Techniques: (100 hours)
Here is what you will master:

• Cakes and Tarts
• Hot Desserts
• Cold Desserts
• Cookies
• Mousses
• Plated Desserts
• Petit Fours

Here are the pastry making skills you'll aquire:

• Learning proper use of baking equipment
• Learning construction of a recipe by grasping the basics of pastry
• Working with chocolate, creating of sugar syrups, meringues, and buttercreams
• Developing the art (and delights) of breathtaking cake decoration
• Understanding the beauty of properly-plated desserts

Schedule 1: Saturday Day Schedule
Saturdays, 9:30am - 2:30pm

Start	End	Price
February 28, 2009	August 1, 2009	$ 6,100

Schedule 2: Weekday Evenings
Tuesdays & Thursdays , 5:30pm - 10:30pm

Start	End	Price
April 14, 2009	June 18, 2009	$ 6,100

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