Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet production volumes
- Confirm work area and work practices meet food safety and workplace health and safety requirements
- Select and wear personal protective equipment according to safety requirements
- Select sponge cake baking equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Prepare tins, trays and pans to match sponge cake product type
- Mix sponge cake batter
- Measure ingredient quantities to meet recipe specifications
- Load ingredients into mixer in required ingredient sequence
- Operate and monitor mixer to mix sponge cake batter as required for product type
- Fold in ingredients as required to meet product type
- Check sponge cake batter to identify faults and rectify
- Bake sponge cake products
- Deposit, spread and pipe sponge cake batters into tins and trays to prepare for baking
- Set baking temperatures and times to meet sponge cake product type and size
- Load oven and monitor baking to achieve baked colour and quality for product type
- Use sight and feel to assess bake of sponge cake products
- Unload and de-pan baked sponge products to cool
- Check sponge cake product bake to identify faults and rectify
- Prepare finishing mediums
- Assemble finishing ingredients and equipment and prepare for use
- Measure finishing ingredient quantities to meet recipe specifications
- Operate and monitor mixer to prepare creams and icings as required for product type
- Melt and prepare chocolate for decorating as required for product type
- Prepare jams for decorating and filling as required for product type
- Prepare garnishes for decorating as required for product type
- Prepare paper piping bags to decorate with chocolate
- Prepare piping bags to pipe finishing decorations
- Check finishing mediums to identify faults and rectify
- Finish sponge cake products
- Cut sponge cake product into portions as required for product type
- Split and fill sponge products as required for product type, and transfer to cake boards as required for product type
- Apply creams and icings to mask and finish sponge cake products as required for product type
- Apply garnishes and decorations to decorate sponge products as required for product type
- Apply simple written inscriptions to decorate sponge products as required for product type
- Check sponge cake product finishing to identify faults and rectify
- Prepare and transfer products for presentation and storage according to packaging and food safety requirements
- Complete work
- Clean equipment and work area to meet housekeeping standards
- Dispose of waste according to workplace requirements
- Complete workplace records according to workplace requirements
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet production volumes
- Confirm work area and work practices meet food safety and workplace health and safety requirements
- Select and wear personal protective equipment according to safety requirements
- Select sponge cake baking equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Prepare tins, trays and pans to match sponge cake product type