Channel your inner bread baker
Does the sight and smell of freshly baked bread make your heart race? If so, you can realize your bread baking dreams in Artisanal Bread Baking, The FCI course that teaches students to create beautiful baguettes, fabulous focaccia, crusty ciabatta, braided challah, to name just a few of the artisanal loaves that are covered in this course.
Roll up your sleeves and start baking
Under the close supervision of accomplished chef-instructors, you'll be inspired and challenged, and learn more than you ever thought possible. Come to class each day, slip on your baker's whites, roll up your sleeves, and get ready to mix, ferment, punch down, shape, score, finish, and bake dough into warm, delicious, aromatic loaves. Even if you have no prior experience making bread, you'll discover the joy of baking and unleash its mysteries, while learning techniques for creating a spectrum of outstanding tastes and textures.
What you'll learn
In five intense and enjoyable classes, you’ll be immersed in the art of artisanal bread baking, which includes:
- Understanding proper mixing, fermentation, shaping, proofing, scoring, and baking techniques for a variety of breads
- Deciphering the critical importance of dough temperature and techniques for accurate calculation
- Learning to bake a variety of breads, including baguettes, bagels and flatbread, brioche and challah, viennoiseries and croissants, traditional loaf breads, and pizza, focaccia, and ciabatta