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We help bakeries worldwide improve quality, efficiency, and innovation. With hands-on expertise and cutting-edge solutions, we make your bakery stronger — from recipe to production line.
At Bakery Academy, we combine passion for baking with practical expertise to help bakeries solve challenges and grow. Our consultants have decades of experience in industrial production (300–3000 kg/hr), R&D, and product innovation.
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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.
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.
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
Cookies & BiscuitsFrom crumbly shortbread to hard sheeted biscuits: understand why every dough type needs its own formulation, forming route and baking profile. In 4 hands-on days you work with rotary moulding, wire-cut and sheeting, run spread and formulation tests, learn to diagnose checking, spread and colour issues, and set — and reach — your own personal product target. Includes an online pre-module and a take-home booklet.For production, R&D and application professionals. Max. 8 participants.
Shelf Life 2.0 — Staling, Spoilage & Enzymes Every bakery product runs on three clocks: texture, microbiology and chemistry. In this 4-day course you learn which clock stops first in your product — and how to slow it down. We go deep into starch retrogradation and the enzymes that control it (maltogenic and intermediate-thermostable amylases, lipases, xylanases), combine them with water activity, pH, preservatives and clean-label alternatives, and finish with a shelf-life test plan for your own product. Practical work on bread and cake, using pre-aged samples so you measure staling during the course itself. Optional fifth day: shelf-life clinic for your own products. For R&D, NPD, application and QA professionals. Max. 8 participants.
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.
This course focuses on reformulating critical macro ingredients, such as sugar, fat, and sodium reduction and on enriching with healthier ingredients such as fibres and proteins enabling you to create bakery products for health-conscious options with minimal compromising on taste or quality.
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.
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.
Why does the same recipe behave differently every flour delivery? In 4 days you learn to read flour specifications (farinograph, Falling Number, W-value), steer fermentation and dough development, and use enzymes, ascorbic acid and emulsifiers as targeted improvers. Bring your own flour and product: the final day is a troubleshooting clinic on your own raw materials.
For quality management there are severel stages. When bakers start to make a product, they test/ taste it themselves and once reasonably satisfied the...
Water is often the major constituent in foods. Even relatively ‘dry’ foods like bread usually contain more than 35% water. The state of wa...
Size or Shape of Products. Every so often we see that products don’t hold their shape as we intended it to be: Oval biscuits that should haven ...
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...
In lamination a the key elements is to control, whilst obtaining a good and strong dough by extending the dough and thus reducing the thickness.
Acrylamide and processing. For some traditional products and in case of breakdown of production lines, doughs are allowed ‘resting’ time....
The relationship between technology and craftsmanship in the bakery industry ensures that the human touch, creativity, and passion that define artisan...
In baker's percentage, the weight of the flour is always 100%, and the total percent of all the other ingredients is always greater than 100%. T...
Dried apricots, cranberries, and ginger are commonly used in cakes, cookies, and other bakery products. Since they are dried, they can alter the dough...
Fibres can roughly be divided in soluble and insoluble fibres; although it is much more complex than that. Soluble fibres, as the name suggests, disso...
Acrylamide guideline. A helpfull toolbox was created. Called the CIAA Acrylamide toolbox. Several options were proposed in this toolbox. Investigate a...
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 structure of alginate consists of a linear combination of 2 acids: mannuronic and guluronic acid; depending on the type and region of the seaweed ...
The use of chemical leavening is of all day and ages and sometimes shaped by traditions. Due to convenience sometimes certain leavening agents are rep...
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...
In baking, fats and oils play a crucial role in the mixing process, and the differences between these lipids are scientifically significant. Here, we ...
What is critical for my product quality from a processing point of view? Cutting our product and process in smaller pieces and identifying its k...
When combing the knowledge and balancing the formulation the shelf life can be extended by lowering the Aw, pH with some additives and packaging.
For calorie reduction in biscuits you first need to know about the basics. Regular biscuits are containing approximately per 100, gram 460 Kcal. Where...
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 ...
We combine hands-on bakery expertise with training, consultancy, and process optimization. This approach reduces waste, boosts efficiency, and improves product quality.
Yes. Our training programs are tailored to your team’s needs — from beginners to experienced product technologists.
Absolutely. We guide bakeries in moving from small-scale to large-scale production with automation and advanced process controls.
We support all types — from small artisanal bakeries to large industrial producers — in improving products, processes, and innovation.
Simply book a consultation through our website. We’ll assess your needs and design a solution to fit your bakery’s goals.
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