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PASTRY, BAKING
AND CHOCOLATE
INTENSIVE PROGRAM
Immerse yourself in a 2-week program dedicated to mastering
the making of traditional breads, pastries, cakes and chocolates!
Discover the most innovative techniques of the moment while
creating irresistible delights in each session.
Duration
2 weeks
Location
Manresa (Barcelona)
Dates
Program fee
2,530 €
Opening application
1st November 2024
Deadline
1st March 2025
Application requirements
Resume/Appl. Form/Appl. Fee/On-line Interview
Other services
Visa management (approximately €300) and help in booking accommodation
Program Syllabus
Context
The evolution of Catalan and Spanish pastry: traditional vs. modern.
Basic ingredients and essential techniques
Classic cakes and traditional sweet recipes
Panellets, Torrons, La Mona, Pâte à choux, Catalan tea pastries, Entremets, Ice-cream, and traditional confectionery products.
Baking products, sweet and savory products, yeast-raised doughs
Different types of bread, puff pastry, and viennoiserie (Ensaïmada, Coques i Tortells, Croissant, Brioix…), and Catalan Hors d’oeuvre.
Restaurant desserts
Traditional Pastry: Crema Catalana, Pijama, Mel i Mató, Cheescake, Flam… Modern Pastry: molecular pastry (foams, spherification,…), and new plating techniques.
Introduction to the Chocolate world
Tempering technique, flat chocolate design, chocolate bonbon, chocolate molds, and artistic design.
Methodology
This unique program will focus on pastry, bakery and chocolate elaborations. Practical days will be at JOVIAT, awarded the best Catalan Pastry School in 2024.
Field days include visits to World Chocolate Master 2022 at his workshop, visits to honey and cheese producers as well as various producers of traditional pastries.
Learn about the evolution of Catalan pastry: traditional vs. modern. Classic cakes and traditional sweet recipes Catalan tea pastries, Entremets, Ice-cream, and traditional confectionery products. Baking products, sweet and savory products, yeast-raised doughs, different types of bread, puff pastry, viennoiserie and Catalan Hors d’oeuvre.
Restaurant desserts: Traditional and new plating techniques.
Introduction to the Chocolate World: tempering technique, flat, chocolate design, chocolate bonbon, chocolate molds, and artistic design.
Asstesment system
The competence and training evaluation focuses on the students’ process to learn, How they performtheir performance and their doing.
The quality of their process will be assessed evaluated day in and day out day after day, including their attendance, creativity, communication skills, adaptability, and respect.
Their learning improvements when in front of their own mistakes will also be evaluated, as well their attitude towards their mates and teachers, towards possible challenges and how they face and solve them.
Their learning progress, in the face of their own mistakes, will also be assessed, as well as their attitudes towards their mates and teachers, toward possible challenges, and how they confront and resolve them.
Last week of the Program the students will work out a final project challenge to check all they have learned. refrased
In the final week of the program, students will complete a final project challenge, to check everything they had learned.
Individual activities ___ %
Team work ___ %
Final project ___%
Attendance and attitude ___ %
