Baking & Pastry

Catalog description

Offered every term. Offered at Missoula College. Restricted to students in the Big Sky Culinary Institute Programs. Prereq., CULA 101 and CULA 105 . Integrated lab class. Course fee: $250.00. This course provides students with practical experience working in a bakeshop situation realistic to restaurant kitchens and bakeries. Students become familiar with producing a variety of baked goods as well as setting up mise en place, different baking techniques, and dessert plating techniques for the dining room and banquet situations. Baking and Pastry focuses on weights, measures, formulas and general baking classifications, handling and storage of ingredients, safety and sanitation, production of yeast raised dough products, cakes, cookies, batters, breads, biscuits, muffins, pies, and special dessert preparation.