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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.
We bridge science and practice, giving you practical solutions you can apply immediately in your bakery.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Each fruit that you select to make a filling will behave differently. Pineapple is for ecample rich in the protein / enzyme bromelain, this will break...
Collapsing is a very common issue in cakes, in particular in the more traditional formulations: without stabilisers, emulsifiers, etc. In those cases ...
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 ...
Replacing sugar whilst maintaining texture, structure and shelf-life and evenly important recipe material cost the same seems to be a mission impossib...
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...
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into bakery product development offers an array of advantages, but it also presents challenges that should be...
Acrylamide and ingredient choices. Theoretically it should be possible to select for certain products where no or low fermentation times are being use...
As with the order of raw materials, the order of mixing has a huge influence. it is therfore that different stages of mixing are being considered, dep...
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...
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 ...
In cakes more liquids lead (unless overdose) to a finer pore structure and tenderness. In cookies to increase in spread and frequently to thinner and ...
Challenges during vegan based formulation. With selecting the right combination of ingredients, often offnotes coming from certain plantbased proteins...
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...
Ensuring the formed volume and structure we would like to keep and removing the parts we don't need or might even downgrade our product upon consuming...
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...
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...
The colour of a product is very often its signature. Some products will receive some decorations, where other products require that the crust will giv...
Explore what recent research really says about ultra-processed foods. Learn how bakery professionals can respond with evidence-based product strategie...
A challenge can be the colouring of the product: monosaccharides colour different to disaccharides and at different temperatures as well.
For developing cookies with fibre. Bakery Academy has evaluated about 50 different fibres from over 10 different suppliers. We see however that every ...
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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