Prepare & Produce Cakes & Pastries FN 060214

PREPARE AND PRODUCE CAKES
AND PASTRIES
D1.HPA.CL4.08
Slide 1
Prepare and produce cakes and
pastries
Assessment for this Unit may include:
 Oral questions
 Written questions
 Work projects
 Workplace observation of practical skills
 Practical exercises
 Formal report from employer/supervisor
Slide 2
Prepare and produce cakes and
pastries
This unit comprises five Elements
1. Prepare and bake cakes and fillings
2. Decorate and present/display cakes
3. Prepare and produce pastries and fillings
4. Decorate and present pastries
5. Store cakes and pastries
Slide 3
Element 1: Prepare and bake cakes
and fillings
Performance Criteria
 Select required commodities according to recipe
and production requirements
 Prepare a variety of cakes to desired product
characteristics
 Produce a variety of cakes according to standard recipes
and enterprise standards
 Use appropriate equipment to prepare and bake cakes
 Use correct techniques to produce cakes to enterprise
standards
 Bake cakes to enterprise requirements and standards
 Select correct oven conditions for baking cakes
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and fillings
Select commodities
 Flours
 Sugars
 Eggs
 Milk
 Cream
 Gelatin
 Flavourings and essences
 Chocolate
 Fats, oils, butter, margarines
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and fillings
Select commodities
 Flours:
 Plain Flour
 Self Raising Flour
 Soft Cake Flour
 Special Cake Flour
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and fillings
Select commodities
 Sugars
 Caster
 Brown
 A1 crystal
 Glucose, powder and liquid
 Icing
 Fondant
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and fillings
Select commodities
 Eggs
 Dairy products and substitutes
 Milk
 Cream
 Fats, oils, butter, margarines
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and fillings
Select commodities
 Chocolate
 Cocoa powder
 Nuts
 Gelatin
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and fillings
Prepare a variety of cakes:
 Sponge
 Pound cakes
 High ratio cakes
 Fudge style cakes
 Special dietary needs
 Honey and spice cakes
 Fruit cakes, Light
 Fruit cakes, Dark
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and fillings
Prepare a variety of cakes
Sponge:
 Genoise
 Sponge drops
 Sponge sheets
 Emulsified sponge
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and fillings
Pound cakes:
 Madeira cakes
 Butter cake
 Pandowdy cakes
 Carrot cake
 Vegetable oil based cakes
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and fillings
High ratio cakes
 Special shortening and emulsifiers used to produce fine

texture and gentle eating products
 Special flours of finer starch grain
 Flour has protein de-natured
 Holds more water
 Formula contains more sugar
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and fillings
Fudge style cakes:
 Caramel fudge
 Banana
 Chocolate fudge
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and fillings
Special dietary needs:
 Gluten free
Gluten-free
 Milk free
 Egg free
 Soy free
Soy-free
 Low fat
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and fillings
 Honey and spice cakes
 Ginger breads
 Honey cakes
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and fillings
Fruit cakes, Light:
 Dundee
 Simnel
Fruit cakes, dark:
 Heavily fruited and spiced
 Very heavy and dense
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and fillings
To be able to produce a variety of cakes pastry cooks

(patissiers) need to be able to be adaptive:
 Styles change
 Traditions evolve
 History gets lost
 Seasonality fades
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and fillings
Use appropriate equipment
 Mixers
 Ovens
 Scales
 Moulds and forms
 Baking trays and racks
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and fillings
Bake to enterprise standards:
 Bakery
 Patisserie
 Wholesale
 5 Star Hotel
 Budget market place
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and fillings
 Standards and quality will change as enterprise
changes
 Standards are kept by pastry cooks working

to high standards and producing consistent
quality no matter where they work
 Quality is relative to how much the customer is

prepared to pay
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Element 2: Decorate and
present/display cakes
 Prepare a variety of fillings and

coatings, icings, glazes and decorations for cakes
 Decorate cakes using fillings, coatings, icings and
decorations according to standard recipes and or
enterprise standards and or customer requests
 Present and display cakes to enterprise standards
using appropriate service equipment
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Prepare a variety of fillings, icings decorations for
cakes:
 Fillings
 Creams, fresh
 Creams, butter creams
 Creams, imitation
 Creams, others
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Prepare a variety of fillings icings decorations for
cakes:
 Icing and glaze
 Fudge
 Fondant
 Plastic
 Ganache
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Decoration to enterprise standard:
 Icing sugar
 Fondant
 Apricot jam
 Roasted nuts
 Glaze and gel
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Present and display to enterprise standards:
 Bakery
 Trays
 Platters
 Cellophane bags
 Boxes
 Doyleys
 Labels
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Element 3: Prepare and produce
pastries and fillings
 Select required commodities according to recipe
and production requirements
 Prepare a variety of pastries
 Produce a variety of pastries according to standard recipes
and enterprise standards
 Use appropriate equipment to prepare and bake pastries
 Use correct techniques to produce pastries to enterprise
standards
 Bake pastries to enterprise requirements and standards
 Select correct oven conditions for baking pastries
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Element 3: Prepare and produce pastries
and fillings
Select required commodities:
 Flours
 Sugars
 Eggs
 Milk
 Cream
 Gelatin
 Chocolate
 Fats, oils, butter, margarines
Slide 28
and fillings
Flours
 Strong flour Flour
 Self Raising Flour
 Pastry Flour
 High Ratio Flour
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and fillings
 Sugars
 Caster
 Brown
 A1 crystal
 Glucose, powder and liquid
 Icing
 Fondant
Slide 30
and fillings
 Eggs
 Dairy products and substitutes
 Milk
 Cream
 Fats, oils, butter, margarines
Slide 31
and fillings
Prepare variety of pastries:
 Puff pastry
 Mille fueille
 Vol au vents
 Chausson aux pommes
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and fillings
 Short pastry
 Quiche
 Savoury rolls
 Pie bases
 Crusts
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and fillings
 Sweet short pastry

 Fruit pies
 Sweet rolls
 Pie bases
 Shortbread biscuits
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Element 4: Decorate and present
pastries
 Prepare a variety of fillings, coatings, icings,

glazes and decorations for pastries
 Decorate pastries using coating, icing and decorations
according to standard recipes and or enterprise
standards and or customer requests
 Present and display pastries to enterprise standards
using appropriate service equipment
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Element 4: Decorate and present pastries
Prepare variety of fillings and glazes:
 Cream
 Fruit fillings
 Savoury meat fillings
 Savoury vegetable fillings
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Decorate pastries to enterprise standards:
 Everyday presentation
 Celebratory occasion
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Present/display to enterprise standards:
 Formal
 Casual
 In house
 Take home
Slide 38
Element 5: Store cakes and
pastries
 Store at correct temperature and conditions

of storage
 Maintain maximum eating quality, appearance

and freshness
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Element 5: Store cakes and pastries
Store at correct temperatures:
 Room Temperature
 Protect from outside contamination
 Date of production
 Labelling
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Element 5: Store cakes and pastries
Maintain maximum eating quality:
 Produce as needed
 Make in small batches
 Protect from contamination
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PREPARE AND PRODUCE CAKES

 Workplace observation of practical skills

 Formal report from employer/supervisor

1. Prepare and bake cakes and fillings

2. Decorate and present/display cakes

3. Prepare and produce pastries and fillings

4. Decorate and present pastries

5. Store cakes and pastries

 Self Raising Flour

 Soft Cake Flour

 Special Cake Flour

 Dairy products and substitutes

 Fats, oils, butter, margarines

 Flavourings and essences

 Vegetable oil based cakes

High ratio cakes

 Special shortening and emulsifiers used to produce fine

 Special flours of finer starch grain

 Flour has protein de-natured

 Holds more water

 Formula contains more sugar

Fudge style cakes:

Special dietary needs:

 Honey and spice cakes

Fruit cakes, Light:

Fruit cakes, dark:

 Heavily fruited and spiced

 Very heavy and dense

To be able to produce a variety of cakes pastry cooks

 History gets lost

 Moulds and forms

 Baking trays and racks

 Budget market place

 Standards are kept by pastry cooks working

 Quality is relative to how much the customer is

 Prepare a variety of fillings and

 Creams, butter creams

 Icing and glaze

 Glaze and gel

 Sweet short pastry

 Prepare a variety of fillings, coatings, icings,

Prepare variety of fillings and glazes:

 Savoury meat fillings

 Savoury vegetable fillings

Decorate pastries to enterprise standards:

Present/display to enterprise standards:

 Store at correct temperature and conditions

 Maintain maximum eating quality, appearance

Store at correct temperatures:

Maintain maximum eating quality:

 Make in small batches

 Protect from contamination

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