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Your profession: Pastry cook (m/f)

Professional activities

Pastry cooks make tarts and cakes, pralines, confectionery, marzipan products and sweets, savoury snacks, cheese savouries, durable bakery products and ice cream.

Fields of work

Pastry cooks mainly work

  • in craft trade companies such as pastry shops, pastry shops/cafés and bakeries
  • as patissiers in the hotel and restaurant trade, such as in major hotels and restaurants
  • The production development departments of companies in the pastry and bakery goods industry also provide a certain scope for employment
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The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).