Baking and Pastry Management

A Baking student in the baking lab posing with a decorative cake.

Student Spotlight: Anna Griswold

Career Program: Baking and Pastry ManagementOriginally From: Highland ParkCurrent Residence: AppletonYear Started at FVTC: 2024 Why did you choose this career program? I love how food brings people together and how you can show love to people around you by sharing baked goods. I want my career to feel like I’m hosting dinner parties all the time, and that’s what a

Woman chef standing in a production kitchen

Faculty Spotlight: Q&A with Chef Jen McClure

After several years working as a Las Vegas bakery manager and cake decorator, Jen McClure and her family relocated to Wisconsin in 2012. Today she spends her time sharing her knowledge with aspiring bakers in the FVTC Baking & Pastry Management program.

Keep Calm and Bake On

Culinary Arts grad and Executive Chef Emily Perrault finds challenge—and comfort—in new Baking & Pastry Management associate degree Emily Perrault For Emily Perrault, baking is therapy. “Baking just calms me down,” she says. “When I want to have a calming part of my day or week, I find something to bake.” So in 2021 when