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Welcome at Bakery Academy

Are you seeking guidance for improving your product or bakery?

As a baker, do you frequently encounter issues with your products or production processes, such as waste or variations in product weight? Do you lack the fresh perspective due to chronic time constraints? Are you searching for an efficient and affordable solution to address these challenges?

At Bakery Academy, we are dedicated to supporting bakeries in achieving operational excellence through cutting-edge technology, innovative product development, and streamlined processes. Our consultancy services are tailored to elevate your bakery to new levels by enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing quality.

With our extensive experience in the bakery industry, we understand the complexity of bakery operations and the daily challenges you face. Our consultants have all worked in industrial bakery production, operating and improving lines ranging from 300 to 3000 kg/hr. They have also served as R&D or NPD bakery technologists, introducing products on existing or new production lines.

By combining practical bakery expertise with science and technology, we offer an academic approach that enables you to apply this knowledge in your bakery practice effectively.

That's why, at Bakery Academy, we provide an accessible way to access high-quality knowledge and services that can help you enhance your products and optimize your production processes

Bakery Academy, your bakery expert in training and consultancy
Bakery Academy, your bakery expert in training and consultancy

Bakery Academy: Expertise & Offerings

  • Bakery Product Technology and Development: We provide expert guidance and support in developing new and exciting bakery products that meet market demands and strengthen your brand.
  • Process Optimization: Our consultants analyze your current production processes and identify opportunities for improvement, such as reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and enhancing overall product quality.
  • Technological Implementation: We specialize in facilitating the transition of bakery products from small-scale ovens to industrial-grade ones, integrating automation systems and advanced production controls.
  • Research and Development: Our team specializes in troubleshooting challenges within bakery product development by researching new technologies. We offer customized solutions designed to address specific issues within your bakery products.
  • Educational Programs: From starters to product technologists, we provide customized training programs and courses designed to equip your team with the essential skills and knowledge required in the bakery industry.
  • Coaching and Mentoring: Our experienced consultants provide personalized guidance and mentoring to your team to enhance their capabilities and performance, fostering a culture of continuous learning.

Bakery Academy, your Bakery Expert | It's all in the Baking


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At Bakery Academy, we strive to be your partner in success, providing you with the expertise and support needed to thrive in the modern bakery industry. Contact us today to discover how we can help you achieve your goals.


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Process improvement

As an entrepreneur you want to optimise the production process within your company as much as possible.

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Research & development

For when you don’t have the time, capacity or knowledge to innovate.

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Training & education

In our bakery training programs, we start with the basics of bakery products, fillings and processes.

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Upcoming courses

Physical course
Foam to Sponge Cake
Days:3
Date:06-10-2025

Foam to Sponge Cake

This intensive and hands-on course is designed for experienced professionals who want to deepen their knowledge and skills in preparing various types of foam cakes

1,500.00
Silver € 1425,-
Gold € 1275,-
Physical course
Reformulation: From Reduction to Enrichment
Days:3
Date:01-09-2025

Reformulation: From Reduction to Enrichment

This course focuses on critical ingredient adjustments, such as sugar, fat, and sodium reduction, while enriching with healthier, nutrient-dense ingredients such as fibres and proteins enabling you to create bakery products for health-conscious options without compromising on taste or quality. 

1,500.00
Silver € 1425,-
Gold € 1275,-
Physical course
Advanced Cookies & Biscuits
Days:4
Date:On request

Advanced Cookies & Biscuits

Welcome to the Cookies and Biscuits course! Dive into product classifications with hands-on Rotary Moulding and Spread Tests. Explore diverse textures through Hard and Soft Biscuit tastings. Uncover the science of formulation, experimenting with flour, fat, sugar, eggs, and more. Achieve Personal Targets in crafting through iterative recipe adjustments. Engage in practical sessions, from dough-making to yeast fermentation activities. This course, blending theory and practice, hones your skills to create diverse cookies and biscuits. 

2,000.00
Silver € 1900,-
Gold € 1700,-
Physical course
Fillings
Days:4
Date:On Request

Fillings

This course equips bakers with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills for various filling types. From understanding ingredient interactions to controlling texture, stability, and flavor balance, this training is designed to help bakeries learn the techniques necessary to optimize these fillings for production. 

2,000.00
Silver € 1900,-
Gold € 1700,-
Physical course
Biscuits Introduction
Days:3
Date:On Request

Biscuits Introduction

Perfect for those new to the bakery scene, our course breaks down complex concepts into easily digestible modules. Learn to understand diverse biscuits in this hands-on course. Explore ingredients, doughs, mixing and baking methods. Enroll now and become a true biscuit specialist! Maximize the value of your training with an additional day! Use this time to dive deeper into the topics that directly impact your work, get answers to your specific questions, and address challenges with expert guidance. Simple, effective, and tailored to your needs.

1,275.00
Silver € 1140,-
Gold € 1020,-
Physical course
Cracker Dynamics
Days:4
Date:08-09-2025

Cracker Dynamics

Explore crackers in our bakery course, covering classifications to troubleshooting industrial issues. Delve into the science of crafting crackers, emphasizing lamination processes, key ingredients, and practical techniques. Learn to tackle challenges like inconsistency in thickness, cracking and breaking and uneven baking. Whether you're a novice baker or seasoned pro, our course equips you with the knowledge and skills in cracker-making.

2,000.00
Silver € 1900,-
Gold € 1700,-
Physical course
Shelf life Extension
Days:4
Date:01-07-2025

Shelf life Extension

This course will extend the knowledge of the attendees to reformate their bakery products to understand different parameters to reach a desired shelf life.  For availability, please contact Bakery Academy by clicking on the envelope icon below on your screen.

2,000.00
Silver € 1900,-
Gold € 1700,-
Physical course
Egg reduction Strategies
Days:3
Date:On request

Egg reduction Strategies

Reducing or replacing eggs in bakery products can introduce various challenges, as eggs contribute critical functional properties such as structure, moisture, leavening, and flavor. Troubleshooting issues related to egg reduction involves addressing concerns in texture, binding, leavening, flavor, moisture content, color, and structural integrity.

1,500.00
Silver € 1425,-
Gold € 1275,-
Physical course
Layering Techniques Puff and Danish pastry
Days:5
Date:On Request

Layering Techniques Puff and Danish pastry

This course will extend the knowledge of Puff and Danish pastry, like apple turnovers, vol-au-vent, croissant and maple-pecan danish. The attendee wil learn to understand the product matrixes and interactions and try to bring this into practice. Participants are expect to have some experience in baking and process handling.

2,500.00
Silver € 1662,50
Gold € 1487,50
Company € 1400,-
Physical course
Bread
Days:3
Date:On request

Bread

Gain insight into the principles and techniques behind bread-making and get to understand the subtle changes necessary to bake quality bread. By blending theory with practice, you’ll develop not only a solid grasp of ingredient interactions but also the ability to apply this knowledge in your own products.

1,500.00
Silver € 1425,-
Gold € 1275,-

Recent Bakery Blogs

Crackers

Crackers

Crackers tend to be perceived quite differently; however in essence it is like a puff pastry or croissant product, but with a ‘poorer’ for...

Complete, pre or concentrated mixes?

Complete, pre or concentr...

Mixes are being sold in different ways. A complete mix where you just ad water. A premix where you add egg, fat that is sometimes part of flour a...

Energy or Air

Energy or Air

With dispersing and dissolving we do not bring any energy and thus an increase in temperature inour dough: we just are aiming for a homogenous, somewh...

Pre-blending

Pre-blending

Ingredient preblending, a fundamental step in the bakery world. The goal of pre-blending is to achieve a homogeneous composition by carefully mixing d...

The process of mixing

The process of mixing

Mixing is a processing step that has various goal, partly depending the product you are planning to make as well as the proces that will follow after ...

Mould in cake whilst Aw and Ph seem to be in order?

Mould in cake whilst Aw a...

If condensation inside the product packaging has happened there are certain so called micro climates in and on the product that facilitate change.

Quality expectations

Quality expectations

Quality expectations are different for every situation. For that we need quality inspections of products and processes. These inspections are done by ...

Implementation of Research and Development

Implementation of Researc...

To effectively understand and foster growth within companies in the bakery sector, it is crucial to analyze both organizational structures and the imp...

How do enzymes work

How do enzymes work

Enzymes play a vital role in nearly all life processes. Without them, essential reactions like digestion and energy conversion would occur far too slo...

Products outer markings

Products outer markings

One of the ways to look at a product is it’s appearance, by judging the top, side and bottom of a bakery product by using your senses of look, f...

Development and AI

Development and AI

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into bakery product development offers an array of advantages, but it also presents challenges that should be...

Releasing from the rotary moulder

Releasing from the rotary...

When dough pieces stick to the rotary moulder, several factors might be responsible. These include the dough’s moisture content, poor lubricatio...

Blistering on Sponge Cake

Blistering on Sponge Cake

Blistering on Sponge cakes it can happen every now and then. We have here a situation (see image) in which our challenge had all that can, come togeth...

Nutriscore ''the good side''

Nutriscore ''the ...

As the contradiction wants: the positives deducts points to improve the total outcome towards hopefully as close to zero as possible. That would mean ...

Protein Functions

Protein Functions

Proteins functions in bakery. Think of air incorporation, which is best demonstrated by egg white (of which the dominant protein is albumen). Caseins ...

Calorie reduction in biscuits

Calorie reduction in bisc...

For calorie reduction in biscuits you first need to know about the basics. Regular biscuits are containing approximately per 100, gram 460 Kcal. Where...

Flour and Starches

Flour and Starches

Flour is the base of near to all our bakery products. We as bakers have defined even our own way of calculating and comparing our recipes based on flo...

History of sugar

History of sugar

Initially sugar was not present and honey and milk had to be used to create the more indulgent products.

Product Classification, ingredients and composition

Product Classification, i...

Classifying bakery items can be done by categorising them in unsweetened, sweetened or filled products. 

Development in bakery

Development in bakery

Development serves as the bridge between research and practical applications in the bakery sector.