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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

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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,-

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Crackers

Crackers

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Process Improvement through AI

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Application of Enzymes

Application of Enzymes

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Egg alternatives

Egg alternatives

When replacing eggs, the challenge lies in the fact that multiple functions needs to be replaced. For example in cakes, we use binding / hydration, ai...

Premixing and transportation

Premixing and transportat...

During premixing and transportation, one can also employ the method of flour and meal cooling or heating. When flour is transported with warm or cold ...

Checking

Checking

Checked biscuits have small cracks or hairlines in them, sometimes hardly visible. Problem appears mostly in short period after packaging, when openin...

Advanced techniques in filling preperation.

Advanced techniques in fi...

Advanced concepts such as syneresis and the use of hydrocolloids. These elements play a significant role in achieving the right consistency and stabil...

Quality inspection example

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A quality inspection example. Bakery Academy is showing how such inspection example would look like, there is however much in ‘the eye of the be...

Quality expectations

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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 ...

Biscuits processes

Biscuits processes

Biscuits can be made in different processes, one is a system where a rotary moulder is being used and the dough is quite crumbly. Without the pressure...

Nutriscore

Nutriscore

What is a nutriscore? Nutriscore is a food choice logo. It is an image on the front of food packaging. Nutriscore gives the composition of a product a...

Crystal size and functions

Crystal size and function...

The size of the sucrose crystals is important factor to work around that may cause differences in the texture and variation in the dimensions of the p...

Mixers and Application

Mixers and Application

When mixing equipment is acquired, it must be clear which types of dough must be prepared, what the volume per batch is, the number of batches per hou...

Size or Shape of Products

Size or Shape of Products

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 ...

Research in the bakery industry

Research in the bakery in...

It enables bakeries to identify and understand trends, allowing them to anticipate changes in market demand and seize new opportunities.

Weight variances in laminated processes

Weight variances in lamin...

In laminated processes a known phenomenon is an uneven or undesired schrinkage. The cause of this can be various.

Challenge of the biscuits.

Challenge of the biscuits...

Taking baking to the next level. Baking it always looks so easy. But then you realize you have hundreds of raw materials to choose from just to bake a...

Shelf-life calculating in cake

Shelf-life calculating in...

When combing the knowledge and balancing the formulation the shelf life can be extended by lowering the Aw, pH with some additives and packaging.