It takes 3 to 5 years to learn how to make Western pastry.

Generally speaking, if you want to be an apprentice in a cake shop, it will take at least 1 year to get started. More than 3 years will be the technical level of intermediate workers. Generally speaking, you can become a relatively good person after 5 years of study. As a pastry chef, of course, the premise is that you can persist and continue to learn and improve.

There are roughly two situations when you go to be an apprentice in a cake shop: one is to go to a relatively ordinary small shop, where you start from making dough, beating cakes, making embryos, making biscuits, opening pastry, shaping, baking, and mounting. Flowers, desserts, basically a decorator, a baker, you have an apprentice.

As an apprentice, you have to do a lot of handy work and repetitive labor at the beginning, and you also have to learn very complex practical techniques. How well the master teaches you will largely determine how well you can learn. The second situation is to go to some large-scale chain stores to learn baking techniques. There are corresponding personnel responsible for each production link.

So to learn, you can only take a position in a certain link first. It requires patience and perseverance to learn all standard process technologies.

Classification of Western pastries:

1. Cakes

Cake is the larger type of Western pastry product. It has the characteristics of soft texture, sweet and delicious taste, and beautiful decoration.

2. Bread

Bread is made from wheat flour as the main raw material and is baked. Bread has different textures due to different production techniques. Some are fluffy and soft, while others are crispy and hard.

3. Puffs

Puffs are a kind of sweet that originates from Italy. The fluffy and hollow cream dough is wrapped with cream, chocolate and even ice cream. It tastes hot on the outside and cold on the inside. Crispy on the outside and smooth on the inside, with an excellent taste.

4. Biscuits

Biscuits are made from wheat flour as the main raw material, adding sugar, oil and other raw materials, and are made through flour mixing, shaping, baking and other processes. They have a crispy taste. , crispy.