What is the difference between L’Art de la Pâtisserie and L’Art du Gâteau?
L’Art de la Pâtisserie is a 24-week full-time certificate program teaching a diversified pastry curriculum encompassing all areas of pastry, baking, and confectionery arts. Subjects taught include breads and breakfast pastries; petits fours and mini pastries; French cakes and tarts; ice cream and sorbet; plated desserts; wedding and specialty cakes; chocolate and sugar candies; and chocolate and sugar decoration. L’Art du Gâteau is a 16-week full-time certificate program that focuses specifically and more intensely on the art of cake baking, decorating, and other aspects of cake art and enterprise. In this program, students learn wedding, celebration, and specialty cake baking and assembly; recipe creation with taste and texture profile methods; gumpaste work and piping techniques; French buttercream frosting and rolled fondant cake covering; chocolate decoration for cakes; miniature pastries; pastillage and pressed sugar; pulled and blown sugar; mold making methods; airbrushing skills
