Launch your dream pastry career with a 100% hands-on education that integrates you into the industry with a paid apprenticeship.
- Fully integrated online classes (lots of hands on and personal
coaching from your instructor) - Start working in your paid apprenticeship in just 2 months’
- Learn scratch and artisanal baking
Gain the skills needed to move up in the industry or open your own business
During our foundation in baking & pastry program, you focus on the science behind baking, allowing you to expand your artistic ability and pursue an array of pastry careers.
- No classrooms or boring textbooks.
- Learn traditional and modern techniques for Cakes, Breads, Plated Desserts, Laminated Doughs, Chocolates and Candies.
- Enjoy full access to your chef instructor.
- Receive job preparation and training specific to your preferred profession.
Bake in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen and study techniques used by modern pastry chefs
- You learn by experimenting in the kitchen as well as gaining hands-on professional experience during your apprenticeship.
- Your instructions are hands on — never sit through long lectures or textbook assignments.
- You get real-life pastry training that gives you a competitive advantage in the industry right now.
- You’re taught in a family-like setting by a team who truly cares about your success.
How Cognetive Education compares to the traditional culinary school model?
Cognetive Skills Academy
- Exclusively Video-driven, hands-on education in your own kitchen
- Modern Recipes + Techniques actually used in cafes today
- 500 or more -hour paid apprenticeship
- Work individually with your own mixer and pastry equipment
VS
Traditional Culinary Schools
- Textbooks + Lecture Halls + hands on in the kitchen Traditional recipes and techniques
- Lesser paid apprenticeship
- Work in groups with shared pastry
What you learn at Cognetive Skills Academy

- Foundation in Baking & Pastry (1 month)
- Quick Breads & Yeasted Breads
- Cookies & Custards
- Pies & Tarts
- Pate a Choux & Basic Cakes

- Craft Baking & Advance in Pastry (1 month)
- Speciality Yeasted Bread
- Laminated Doughs
- Candies
- Confectionaries
- Artisan Chocolates

- Modern Techniques & Chocolate applications
- 3D Carved Cakes & Cupcakes
- Tiered Cakes & Decorated Sugar Cookies

- Apprenticeship
- More than 500 hours
- Top Chefs & Bakers
- Learning Modules Include: Culinary Career Paths, Field Trips, & Menu Development