Certificate in Cookery & Bakery, Foundation Level 3

Learn the foundation skills and gain confidence in the kitchen to begin your professional culinary journey as a baker or chef. 

The Foundation Certificate in Cookery & Bakery, where you begin your culinary career and gain confidence in a professional kitchen.

COURSE CONTENT

Baking & Culinary Arts

Example dishes:

• Quiche Lorraine with shortcrust pastry, bacon and mesclun salad
• Briased onion tart with mesclun salad
• Choux puff with chocolate ganache and crème patissiere
• Pan-seared snapper with roast red pepper salsa
• Seared beef sirloin with parsley butter
• Eggs Benedict with crispy bacon on English muffins
• From shortbread to Chocolate brownie
• From classic sponge with Chantilly cream to Orange Cake with lemon cream

Food Safety Training

You will learn about food safety in a commercial kitchen and complete unit standards-based certification.

Knife Skills

You will learn essential knife skills to ensure safe and efficient equipment use, providing training you will use for the duration of your career.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates will be able to work as junior chefs in cafés, restaurants, bars, clubs resorts and hotels.

PATHWAYS TO FURTHER STUDY

We recommend that students complete the second semester and gain the level 4 Certificate in Cookery Advanced (Level 4). Students can then go on to complete more specialised level 5 diploma programmes including the NZ Diploma in Cookery (Level 5).