Pastry Arts

Learn from Marco Ropke a fourth generation pastry chef with twenty five (25) years of international experience.

An indispensable addition to any serious home baker’s library, The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts covers the many skills an aspiring pastry chef must master. Based on the internationally lauded curriculum developed by master pâtissier Jacques Torres for New York’s French Culinary Institute, the book presents chapters on every classic category of confection: tarts, cream puffs, puff pastry, creams and custards, breads and pastries, cakes, and petits fours.

Learn from Marco Ropke a fourth generation pastry chef with twenty five (25) years of international experience.

This comprehensive text is designed for courses in baking and the pastry arts, yet still accessible to the aspiring home baker

The leading learning tool for all levels of baking and pastry ability, newly illustrated and updated
Praised by top pastry chefs and bakers as "an indispensable guide" and "the ultimate baking and pastry reference," the latest edition of Baking and Pastry from The Culinary Institute of America improves upon the last with more than 300 new recipes, photographs, and illustrations, and completely revised and up-to-date information on creating spectacular breads and desserts.