Best Baking Courses in 2025: Learn from the Experts at CTIA
South Africa’s love for baked goods is undeniable, and the demand for expertly crafted cakes, pastries, and artisan breads keeps rising. If you’ve been toying with the idea of turning your home baking into a business – or just want to level up your skills – CTIA’s baking courses are exactly what you need. Designed by industry pros, our short baking courses teach technique, but they also help you build a brand, create jaw-dropping products, and even master the art of taking Insta-worthy food shots.
A Baking Course Designed for Future Pastry Pros
CTIA’s ‘How To’ Baking Series is a must for anyone looking to make serious dough (pun intended) from cakes, pastries, or artisan bread. It’s essentially a crash course in pastry magic, handcrafted for those who dream of piping perfect buttercream, laminating the ultimate puff pastry, or perfecting the delicate crunch of a macaron.
This course is ideal for:
- Home bakers who want to start a business
- Aspiring pastry chefs looking for specialised skills
- Professionals wanting to refine their techniques
- Dessert lovers who just want to learn how to bake like a pro
What’s on the Menu?
Each week focuses on a different area of baking expertise, ensuring you leave with skills that set you apart. Here’s how we whip up baking brilliance:
- Week 1: Master three different sponge methods and fillings.
- Week 2: Get hands-on with icing, buttercream techniques, and cake décor.
- Week 3: Learn the art of royal iced vanilla biscuits with stencils, flooding, and piping.
- Week 4: Craft flawless éclairs and Paris-Brest with perfectly piped choux pastry.
- Week 5: Work with laminated, puff, flaky, and rough pastry for next-level creations.
- Week 6: Conquer the notoriously tricky macaron with both Italian and French methods.
- Week 7: Knead, shape, and bake ciabatta, sourdough, focaccia, and soft butter buns.
- Week 8: Master fermentation, croissants, baguettes, and roast potato loaves.
- Week 9: End on a show-stopping note with gelatines, tiramisu, lemon meringue pie, and molecular gastronomy.
Sign Up for Your Sweetest Investment Yet
This short course for chefs and aspiring bakers stretches over nine immersive classes packed with real-world pastry skills. The cherry on top? Our ‘How To’ baking course is available at all four CTIA campuses: Centurion, Durban, Mbombela, and Stellenbosch.
Cost: R9 000 once-off OR R4 500 deposit + R4 500 by the end of the first month.
If you’ve been searching for the best baking courses to refine your craft or launch your own bakery, this is it. Time to preheat those creative ovens and turn your passion into profit – one delicious goodie at a time.