Baking & Patisserie

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Baking & Patisserie

For over 30 years, DVC has been successfully preparing students for professional careers in small and large bakeries, specialty pastry shops, dessert catering and dessert preparation in restaurants. Diablo Valley College’s baking and pastry program offers an in-depth, hands-on learning curriculum where students gain both knowledge and experience through the hotel and restaurant management program’s technical facilities.

Baking and pastry students work and learn in a fully equipped food production kitchen, a demonstration laboratory, a retail pastry shop and a 130-seat restaurant that is open to the public. In partnership with the ARAMARK Corporation, Pacific Bell in San Ramon presently houses our Basic Foods class, which assists in food production for approximately 7,000 customers daily.

In addition to training at the DVC facilities, students gain experience working outside the college through a required internship program.