Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet required product 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 biscuit and cookie baking equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Prepare baking trays to match biscuit and cookie type
- Mix biscuit and cookie batters and doughs
- Measure ingredient quantities to meet recipe specifications
- Load ingredients into mixer and cook pots in required sequence as required for product type
- Operate mixer and monitor mixing in mixers and cook pots to mix biscuit and cookie batters and doughs
- Fold in ingredients as required to meet product type
- Check biscuit and cookie batters and doughs to identify batter faults and rectify
- Store biscuit and cookie batters and doughs according to food safety requirements
- Bake biscuit and cookie products
- Deposit, portion and cut biscuit and cookie batters and doughs to trays to meet product type
- Pre-bake finish cookies and biscuits as required to meet product type
- Set baking temperatures and times to prepare for baking
- Load oven and monitor to achieve correct bake and stability for biscuit and cookie product type
- Use sight and feel to assess bake of biscuit and cookie products
- Unload baked biscuit and cookie products to cool
- Check biscuit and cookie 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 as required for product type
- Prepare garnishes for decorating as required for product type
- Prepare piping bags to decorate with chocolate and pipe finishing decorations
- Check finishing mediums to identify faults and rectify
- Finish biscuit and cookie products
- Fill biscuit and cookie products as required for product type
- Apply garnishes and decorating finishes to decorate biscuit and cookie products as required for product type
- Check finished biscuit and cookie products to identify finishing faults and rectify
- Prepare and transfer finished biscuit and cookie 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 required product 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 biscuit and cookie baking equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Prepare baking trays to match biscuit and cookie type