Description
Bakers and flour confectioners prepare and bake dough, pastry and cake mixtures and make and finish flour confectionary products by hand.Main Tasks
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe;
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency;
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns;
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes;
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes;
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
Qualifications
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.What Bakers and flour confectioners studied in higher education
Occupation | Percentage Value |
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(L4) Social policy | 1 |
(L7) Human & social geography | 1 |
(W2) Design studies | 6 |
(C1) Biology | 2 |
(H3) Mechanical engineering | 1 |
(F1) Chemistry | 2 |
(C8) Psychology | 3 |
(W1) Fine art | 3 |
(P4) Publishing | 1 |
(V3) History by topic | 1 |
(W3) Music | 2 |
(F6) Geology | 1 |
(F8) Physical geographical sciences | 1 |
(W8) Imaginative writing | 1 |
(W6) Cinematics & photography | 6 |
(C7) Molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistry | 1 |
(Q3) English studies | 5 |
(L2) Politics | 1 |
(K2) Building | 2 |
(K1) Architecture | 1 |
(N5) Marketing | 1 |
(M1) Law by area | 1 |
(M2) Law by topic | 1 |
(J9) Others in technology | 2 |
(N8) Hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism & transport | 2 |
(B9) Others in subjects allied to medicine | 1 |
(F4) Forensic & archaeological sciences | 2 |
(I3) Software engineering | 1 |
(N6) Human resource management | 1 |
(V5) Philosophy | 1 |
(L1) Economics | 2 |
(I6) Games | 1 |
(W9) Others in creative arts & design | 1 |
(X3) Academic studies in education | 4 |
(L5) Social work | 1 |
(D6) Food & beverage studies | 14 |
(K4) Planning (urban, rural & regional) | 1 |
(N4) Accounting | 1 |
(C6) Sport & exercise science | 2 |
(C3) Zoology | 1 |
(P3) Media studies | 5 |
(V1) History by period | 4 |
(H6) Electronic & electrical engineering | 1 |
(I1) Computer science | 2 |
(W5) Dance | 1 |