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Free Level 2 Professional Bakery Course in Liverpool – The City of Liverpool College – Duke Street

CostFREE
Duration1 year
LevelLevel 2
DeliveryClassroom based
Start8 Sep 2026
Study modeFull-time
AttendanceDaytime
Awarding bodyFDQ
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About this course

Free Level 2 Professional Bakery Course in Liverpool. Classes run at The City of Liverpool College - Duke Street, full-time over one year.

You'll learn to make breads, pastries, and croissants alongside cake decoration skills including sugar craft and tiered cake design. The course covers both bakery production and the techniques behind professional cake decorating. Entry typically requires four GCSEs at grade 3 or above, including Maths and English, or a relevant Level 1 qualification at merit or above. Check the college website for full entry details.

You'll finish with a Level 2 Diploma in Professional Bakery.

Who this course is for

'Bake' yourself happy at the very first established Bakery and Cake Decorating College in The North West and North Wales! Imagine making your own buttery flaky croissants and Danish pastries, waiting in anticipation for hot crusty bread to come fresh out of the oven then designing a three tier wedding cake with a floral sugar craft display. This course is for anyone who may want a career in the Baking/ Cake decoration Industry, setting up your own business or to improve you home baking and cake decorating skills whilst gaining an industry and worldwide recognised Qualification from award winning Cake Decoration and Bakery Lecturers with over 175 years combined experience from one of the north wests oldest and leading Bakery Colleges. As a student of the course, you will work as part of the team producing commercial bakery fermented traditional breads such as cottage loaves, multiseed breads and rolls, milk bread, oven bottom cobs. European breads such as fougasse, brioche, French baguettes, focaccia, Berliner doughnuts, cakes, pastries (sweet and savoury) and celebration cakes including wired flowers, royal icing, coatings and run outs, marzipan and modelling paste figures and fruits, you will also work as an individual on practising skills and being innovative in design of your own products. L2 students will have the opportunity to attend the annual conference and competions weekend event. Take part in an exchange trip to Lorrach Germany and Switzerland.

Entry requirements

Please vist: https://www.liv-coll.ac.uk/courses/Professional-Bakery-and-Cake-Decoration-Level-2-Diploma

What you will learn

  • You'll develop bread-making skills, from mixing dough to baking crusty loaves.
  • You'll make pastries including croissants, Danish pastries, and other enriched doughs.
  • You'll learn professional cake decoration techniques.
  • You'll work with sugar craft to create floral and decorative displays.
  • You'll design and assemble tiered celebration cakes.
  • You'll understand food hygiene and safe working practices in a bakery environment.
  • You'll build the practical skills needed to work in a professional kitchen or bakery.

How you will learn

You'll learn through hands-on practical sessions in the college's bakery facilities. Classes are daytime and full-time, running across 35 weeks. You'll be assessed through practical tasks and coursework. The teaching team brings extensive industry experience to the classroom.

What you will need to bring

The centre will provide most materials. The City of Liverpool College - Duke Street will confirm anything else you need before you start.

Where next

Jobs you could do

  • Baker, producing breads and pastries in a bakery or supermarket.
  • Pastry chef, specialising in pastries and baked goods in a restaurant or hotel kitchen.
  • Cake decorator, creating celebration and wedding cakes for clients.
  • Bakery assistant, supporting production in a commercial bakery.
  • Confectionery production operative, working in food manufacturing.
  • Self-employed baker, running your own bakery or home baking business.

What you could study next

  • Level 3 Diploma in Professional Cookery, a step up for those wanting to broaden into wider culinary skills.
  • Level 3 Diploma in Patisserie and Confectionery, for those wanting to specialise further in pastry and sugar work.
  • Apprenticeship in Baking Industry Skills, combining work-based training with a formal qualification.
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