Short Pastry And Puff Pastry Confectionery Manufacturing Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply principles of ingredient selection and measurement for short pastry and puff pastry production.
• Demonstrate techniques for mixing, resting, and laminating puff pastry dough.
• Implement baking processes to achieve desired texture and appearance in finished products.
• Analyze product quality against specified standards and identify corrective actions.
• Evaluate hygiene and safety practices in a pastry production environment.
• Design a production plan for a range of short pastry and puff pastry confectionery items.

Target Audience

This course is designed for bakery workers, pastry chefs, confectionery production staff, and individuals seeking to enter the food manufacturing sector with a focus on pastry products.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Hands-on practicals form the core of this course, allowing learners to apply theoretical knowledge in a real bakery environment. Under supervision, learners will prepare, shape, bake, and finish a variety of short pastry and puff pastry products, developing essential skills in dough handling, lamination, and quality control.

Practical Activities

• Basic Dough Preparation and Short Pastry — Learners prepare short pastry from scratch, practice rubbing-in, lining tins, blind baking, and making filled tarts and pies. (8h)
• Puff Pastry Lamination and Shaping — Learners prepare puff pastry dough, laminate with butter, perform turns, and shape into classic items like palmiers, vol-au-vents, and mille-feuille. (12h)
• Confectionery Fillings and Assembly — Learners prepare crème pâtissière, fruit fillings, and glazes, then assemble and finish pastries for presentation. (8h)
• Integrated Production and Assessment — Learners produce a complete range of short pastry and puff pastry items under timed conditions, followed by quality evaluation and feedback. (8h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.