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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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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
If condensation inside the product packaging has happened there are certain so called micro climates in and on the product that facilitate change.
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into bakery product development offers an array of advantages, but it also presents challenges that should be...
In the industrial baking industry, one of the biggest challenges is navigating the balance between cost and quality. Can bakers offer premium-quality ...
The transition from artisanal to industrial production requires a refined fermentation processes. Especially with sourdough, precise tuning of paramet...
For developing cookies with fibre. Bakery Academy has evaluated about 50 different fibres from over 10 different suppliers. We see however that every ...
We see eggs dominiantly in Cakes (family/pound, sponge cakes and muffins). As well as cookies and biscuits, but also croissants, puff pastries and bre...
Ingredient preblending, a fundamental step in the bakery world. The goal of pre-blending is to achieve a homogeneous composition by carefully mixing d...
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...
On average, close to 50% of the total energy is consumed in the first 25-35% of the baking process. Products are entering the oven between 10-35% C an...
For the developement of the product. The amount and type of heat which is required to bake a dough piece is diferent from the beginning towards the en...
The nutiscore comprises 2 dimensions: Positive points (+) to the unfavourable and negative points (-) to the favourable.
By physical leavening we talk about the availability of liquids. What happens is upon heating of bakery products during proofing or baking water and o...
The spread in cookies and biscuits can be caused by numerous ingredients and processing steps. Probably most baking people will know that the amount a...
A key aspect of scaling up is that volumes also tend to increase. As a consequence sometimes ingredients can’t keep up with the volume and alter...
Liquid sugar can have about 67% sucrose content, sometimes a little bit of invert is added to delay sugar recrystallisation. Different saccharide sour...
Bakeries can perform premixing themselves or allowing the small materials to be premixed by the supply industry. In other words create a mixture of ra...
Enzymes are valuable natural tools in bakery processes, but their effectiveness depends on key factors: the presence of the right substrate, sufficien...
Fats and oils consist of a glycerol molecule that can bind 3 different fatty acids. The type of fatty acid makes that we would classify them as satura...
It can identify inefficiencies, streamlines production, and accurately predicts consumer demand
People went to sunflower due to palm issues. Considering the availability, how effective the growing of sunflower is it might be wise to switch back t...
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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