Food Processing
This qualification covers the retail baking – bread, pastry and cake specialization within the food processing industry. The Certificate III in retail Baking provides trade baking skills and knowledge for those working in a retail baking environment with a focus on cakes, pastry and bread.
Units of Competency
- Use numerical applications in the workplace
- Provide and apply workplace information
- Implement the food safety program and procedures
- Contribution to OHS processors
- Produce bread dough
- Bake bread
- Diagnose and respond to product and process faults
- Produce pastry
- Prepare fillings
- Form and fill pastry products
- Bake pastry products
- Produce sponge, cake and cookie batter
- Bake sponges, cakes and cookies
- Decorate cakes and cookies
- Diagnose and respond to product and process faults
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Use hygienic practices for food safety
- Plan and schedule production for retail bakery
- Prepare and serve espresso coffee
- Completion of G.C.E. O/L or A/L or equivalent
- English with Sinhala Language
- February / July / October
- 3 months + 3 months internship with salary paid
- Face to face, computer-aided
- Combination and theory Practical and Project Assessment
- Certificate IV in Advanced Baking
- Pastry Cook, Baker
This qualification covers post-trade outcomes for retail bakers, bread makers and pastry cooks. It may be packaged to reflect a specialization in advanced technical baking skills or in bakery business management skills, or to reflect a combination of both.
Units of Competency
- Monitor the implementation of quality and food safety programs
- Maintain OHS processes
- Report on workplace performance
- Control bakery operations to meet quality and production requirements
- Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
- Explore and apply baking techniques to develop new products
- Produce meringue-based products
- Bake bread
- Apply the principles of nutrition to food processing
- Produce sourdough products
- Bake pastry products
- Prepare and serve espresso coffee
- Prepare plated sweets and desserts
- Decorate cakes and cookies
- Completion of G.C.E. O/L or A/L and Certificate III in retail Baking or equivalent
- English with Sinhala Language
- February / July / October
3 months + 3 months internship with salary paid
Face to face, computer-aided
- Combination and theory Practical and Project Assessment
- Diploma of Food Processing or other suitable qualification
- Senior Baker, Baking business Owner, Pastry Cook
Duel Qualification
We offer Dual Qualification program for 9 months study duration including 3 months paid internships which students are eligible to apply for credit exemption for Suitable Diploma Program.