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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

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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.


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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

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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:02-06-2025

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:

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

What is quality

What is quality

Perceiving a product to be of high quality. Many ‘purist’ bakers would express that this product resembles how it was made in the past. Or...

Sugar sources and functions

Sugar sources and functio...

If we take sugar in the broader sense of meaning sugar can come from different plant based materials and some animal based products. What they all hav...

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...

Collapsing of cakes

Collapsing of cakes

Collapsing is a very common issue in cakes, in particular in the more traditional formulations: without stabilisers, emulsifiers, etc. In those cases ...

External factors of shelf life

External factors of shelf...

The external factors of shelf life. All bakery products are stored for a short or longer period of time. The temperature at which this is being done v...

The basics of Cakes

The basics of Cakes

For the basics of cake, before the time of emulsifiers and leavening agents. The natural ingredients had to be used in such a way that they were in th...

Baking Dilemma: Cost vs Quality

Baking Dilemma: Cost vs Q...

In the industrial baking industry, one of the biggest challenges is navigating the balance between cost and quality. Can bakers offer premium-quality ...

Re-use product waste

Re-use product waste

Product waste is often reused, bringing various benefits. For instance, in cookies and biscuits, waste is utilized to control the spread and thickness...

Replacing the sugar

Replacing the sugar

Replacing sugar whilst maintaining texture, structure and shelf-life and evenly important recipe material cost the same seems to be a mission impossib...

Shelflife and clean label

Shelflife and clean label

Certain emulsifiers can be replaced by using enzymes that open up the functionality of the present starches, proteins and lipids in a formulation and ...

Challenges of enrichment: Psyllium / hardness.

Challenges of enrichment:...

As fibres are products of nature, we can’t design them 100% to our liking; of course the larger fibre length can be (mechanically) shortened and...

Defining R&D

Defining R&D

Systematic research and experimentation conducted by bakery companies to create innovative products, improve existing products, optimize processes, an...

Fats

Fats

Reducing a fat (harder, shortening, butter or margarine) the crumb of a cake might become a bit more coarser, but we see an increase in volume.

Biscuits with protein

Biscuits with protein

When developing a product with proteins we must be aware that the guidelines for protein enrichment and claims are a bit different. A product that is ...

Process Improvement through AI

Process Improvement throu...

 It can identify inefficiencies, streamlines production, and accurately predicts consumer demand

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...

Waste reduction in laminated products

Waste reduction in lamina...

. Recycle trimmings into new dough batches, ensuring no quality compromise.

Mixing tools

Mixing tools

If we look at a plain planetairy mixer we can have a few tools that are available and in some cases 2-3tools can be used in the mixing head. The most ...

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...

Development and Improvement

Development and Improveme...

With an accepted prototype and/ or reviewed brief the actual development work starts: everything that could be parameterised and modelled in advanced ...