Bakers and
flour confectioners

Description

Bakers and flour confectioners prepare and bake dough, pastry and cake mixtures and make and finish flour confectionary products by hand.

Tasks

weighs ingredients according to recipemixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistencyrolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and bunsfills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakesbakes bread, pastry and cakesmakes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.

Educational Requirements

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically received on-the-job or by apprenticeship. Apprenticeships and traineeships leading to NVQs/SVQs at Levels 2 and 3 are available.