Pastry chef

Sweet craftsmanship! Cakes, pastries, chocolates, ice cream, and baked goods – sweets are your professional passion. In addition to skilfully preparing them, presentation and decoration of the products are also your speciality. Show off your sense of aesthetics and finesse.

What you’ll be doing:

• Storing and inspecting food and packaging materials
• Preparing and working with doughs and batters
• Producing fine baked goods from various doughs
• Creating fillings and creams
• Decorating patisserie products
• Preparing savoury, cheese, and party biscuits
• Designing cakes and patisserie products
• Creating speciality and long-lasting baked goods
• Making marzipan, chocolate, and nougat products
• Designing and making confectionary products
• Making chocolates
• Producing ice cream and ice-cream products
• Creating sweet dishes
• Preparing small dishes using fresh ingredients
• Customer service and sales

Apprenticeship programme

• 1st year
  Knowledge of goods/confectionery (10 weeks) | Bakery (8 weeks) | Stewarding (12 weeks) | Restaurant LUMI (8 weeks)
• 2nd year
  Patisserie (16 weeks) | Breakfast (4 weeks) | Bakery (4 weeks) | Confectionery (10 weeks)
• 3rd year
  Confectionery (30 weeks)

Duration: 3 years
The duration of the apprenticeship may be reduced under certain conditions (e.g. if you have a high school diploma or achieve outstanding results in school and at work).

What can you do once you’ve completed your apprenticeship?
You can choose to develop as a member of the kitchen team in a hotel or a patisserie. Perhaps you’ll enjoy working at Seezeitlodge so much that you want to take advantage of our advancement opportunities.
If chocolate artistry is your greatest passion, you can specialise and become a chocolatier. As a pastry chef, you can work as an employee or, once you qualify as a master, open your own patisserie.

Apply now for 2025