Pastry Chef

Will train to perform duties including: Measure, weigh, portion, and combine ingredients such as sugar, flour, eggs, and butter to prepare cookie doughs, fillings, icings, and other cookie components, by hand or using mixing or blending machines. Roll, knead, cut, shape, or portion dough to form cookies and other baked goods. Place dough in pans, molds, sheets, or pans to bake in production ovens. Set time and speed controls for mixing and blending machines, and time and temperature for production ovens. Decorate, pipe, fill, or apply chocolate coatings, cookie fillings, and other components or toppings to cookies and baked goods by hand. Assemble often-elaborate cookie, brownie, and cookie-shot creations. Adjust portions, measurements, temperatures, cooking times, and other variables to adjust for amounts of items or batches, color and texture of items in production, ambient humidity, and other variables. Bag and seal cookies. Assist with packaging baked-good sales orders as needed. Perform other pastry-kitchen station duties as assigned by supervisors and managers. Follow proper food-handling procedures to ensure food safety, including wrapping, labeling, dating, stocking, storing, rotating, and checking temperatures.