Political Pastries

Take a few pastry baking classes and becoming the White House pastry chef may be the icing on your cake.

by Sue Booth
sue.booth@cooking-school-search.com
Cooking School Search Columnist

So you love to decorate cakes and invent delicious pastries? How would you like to make a career out of baking? Read on to find out how pastry chef training can help your pastry career rise to political proportions.

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Pastry baking classes will help you transform your hobby for creating specialty pastries into a pastry career. At a bachelor degree level, you will not only learn cake decorating, chocolate work, nutrition, menu planning, but financing to make your pastry or baking career profitable. What can pastry baking classes do for you?

Commander-In-Pastry Chef

As a baking school graduate, you can aspire to bake for the President of the United States. Take Thaddeus DuBois who was the White House pastry chef for eighteen months. Thaddeus created sweet, delicious desserts at private gatherings, working lunches, and state dinners.

During college, DuBois worked in a bakery and then did his pastry chef training and took pastry baking classes at the a culinary institute in Hyde Park, N.Y. in 1992. In 2004 Dubois interviewed for the pastry chef position by preparing sugary treats for the Bushes. DuBois’ peach and raspberry open-faced pie with cornmeal dough and baked Alaska were the magical confections that got him hired as the pastry chef of Pennsylvania Avenue. He’s since opted to return to his former job at the Borgata Hotel and Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J.

Presidential Sweet Tooth

As the White House pastry chef, DuBois learned the intimate details of the Bush’s pastry life, claiming that the President “has a sweet tooth.” So for the Commander-In-Chief’s birthday, DuBois created a seven-layer yellow cake with chocolate icing covered with chocolate.

If your passion is baking tasty pastries, with some pastry chef training and pastry baking classes you may be able to parlay your hobby into a dream pastry career.

Sources:

Chefs, Cooks, and Food Preparation Workers
White House Pastry Chef Shares Sweet Secrets

About the author

Sue Booth is a freelance writer and a former panel taste tester for Good Housekeeping magazine.

Posted on October 25, 2006 at 3:01 PM

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