Baking and Pastry Arts

The Baking and Pastry Arts certificate prepares students to become professional baking and pastry chefs.  Students prepare and produce cakes, pies, and other baked goods, working with doughs, icings, and other ingredients used in pastry making.  In addition to specific training for pastry making, students study fundamentals of baking principles, sanitation, small business management, and visual merchandising.  The complete program is only available at the Harrisburg Campus.  

  Major Requirements   
  *BAKE 101 Baking I  4 
  *BAKE 103 Baking II  2 
  *BAKE 111 Pastry Arts I  4 
  *BAKE 113 Pastry Arts II  2 
  BAKE 291 Baking/Pastry Arts Internship  3 

Other Required Courses   
CIS 105 Intro to Software for Business  3 
CULI 102 Applied Hospitality Math  2 
CULI 113 Sanitation & Safety  2 
HTMT 213 Marketing: Hospitality & Tourism  3 
MGMT 221 Small Business Development & Management  3 
MKTG 205 Visual Merchandising  3 

This curriculum is designed to prepare students to:

Use mathematical techniques to make accurate adjustments in bakeshop formulas and percentages

Follow the correct procedures and correctly prepare quickbreads, cookies, brownies, basic pies and tarts, and yeast enriched, and laminated doughs

Follow the correct procedures and correctly prepare custards and curds, doughs, tarts and pies, meringues and frostings, mousses and bavarians, ice cream, cake baking, and decorating procedures

Determine and apply the characteristics, properties and functions of the major baking and pastry ingredients

Exhibit correct baking procedures for successful finished product

Demonstrate  multi-tasking skills for quantity production

Apply industry sanitation and safety procedures

Apply for a Full-Ride Scholarship

Are you a future student and ready to apply to HACC? 
By applying to HACC, you have the opportunity to apply for a full-ride scholarship! HACC will fund two years of your education – enough to complete your associate degree.

Thanks to the support of the HACC Foundation, the College is able to offer FREE money to support future students, like you, in reaching your educational goals. Six full-ride scholarships are available – one from each of the five campuses and one through HACC’s Virtual Learning Program. 

Please note that current students are not eligible for the full-ride scholarships. However, there are more than 250 scholarships available for current students.

What should you know about the full-ride scholarship?

The scholarship covers tuition, books and fees for a full academic year. 

The scholarship will automatically renew each term for up to six consecutive terms if you maintain your eligibility.

Once you apply to the College and receive a HACC ID and email address, you may apply for the full-ride scholarship. You do not have to register for classes before applying for the scholarship.

Are you eligible?

To be eligible, you must:

Apply to HACC

Take 12-15 credits each term for no more than six consecutive terms (two years)

Live in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill or York county

Have a minimum cumulative high school GPA of 3.0

Provide a 480 SAT reading score, 21 ACT or comparable scores on the College’s placement test

Maintain a GPA of 3.0 while enrolled at HACC

Participate in at least two HACC student organizations