Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet required production volume
- 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 cake and pudding baking and steaming equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Clean and condition dried fruits to prepare for use
- Prepare tins, trays and pans to match cake and pudding types
- Mix cake and pudding batter
- Bake and steam cake and pudding products
- Deposit, spread and pipe cake and pudding product batters into tins and trays to prepare for baking
- Set baking and steaming temperatures and times to meet cake and pudding product type and size
- Load ovens and steamers and monitor baking and steaming to achieve even bake and steam of product for product type
- Use sight, feel and skewers to assess bake of cake and pudding products
- Unload and de-pan baked cake products to cool
- Check cake product bake and steam of pudding to identify faults and rectify
- Prepare finishing mediums
- Assemble finishing ingredients and equipment and prepare for use
- Measure finishing ingredient quantities to meet recipe specification
- Operate and monitor mixer to prepare icings and glazes as required for product type
- Prepare garnishes for decorating as required for product type
- Prepare piping bags to pipe finishing decorations
- Check finishing mediums to identify faults and rectify
- Finish cake products
- Cut cake products into portions as required for product type
- Apply icings and glazes to mask cake products as required for product type
- Apply garnishes and decorating finishes to decorate cake products as required for product type
- Check finished cake products to identify finishing 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 required production volume
- 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 cake and pudding baking and steaming equipment and check to confirm readiness for use
- Select ingredients and check to confirm quality and quantity
- Clean and condition dried fruits to prepare for use
- Prepare tins, trays and pans to match cake and pudding types