Let's get the definitions of pastry chef. Pastry chef is a station or resident chef in elite (sometime) kitchen. Making deserts and baked goods was easy as flipping hand for them. As member of brigade de cuisine
in professional kitchen pastry daily duty is to menu planning, costing, and order supplies.
Good pastry chef always research their recipe concept, develop and testing new recipes as the creation of new pastry never ends. They must made some preparation and begin to create their art. Pastry chef could be mentioned as artist because they don't enchant taste only but appearance also. This type of job will require excellent creativity and stamina to do research all the time. There are some educations for people who interested to be pastry chef.
- Baking and Pastry Certificate
- Degree in Applied Science Culinary Arts
- Bachelor of Art Degree in Culinary Arts

Quite interesting, doesn't it? A pastry chef job could be followed by anyone but they need to be determined first as it is not an easy job. Pastry chef have good prospect when talking about salary. Executive pastry chef can make more than $60k/year and an entry level pastry chef make $8/hour.
I found a japanese comic about pastry chef. It's called Yakitate!! Japan. it's fun to read!

The first STEP in becoming a Pastry Chef, is to decide if this career is the right path for you. If you are fully committed to this culinary career one of the first things you should do is to contact some of your local restaurants or bakery outlets to inquire about volunteering for an apprenticeship program. In this way you can learn and study the basics of pastry preparation. Be inquisitive and curious about the details in pastry preparation by your mentor, The Master Pastry Chef.

If their is no available apprenticeship program in your area, I suggest you enroll at the Culinary Arts Institute of America, these culinary institute have campuses in New York & California. But first things first is to check for local listings of available culinary institute to save on costs.

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How to Become a Pastry Chef

I Googled the question. Wisegeek.com says there are two ways culinary school or apprenticeship. For an apprenticeship, you need to find a bakery looking for an assistance pastry chef, or you can volunteer in return for training from the pastry chef. The other option is to go to culinary school. There are several top culinary schools in the United States, like Le Cordon Bleu. Also, many community colleges offer a pastry chef program. Going to culinary school does take longer than an apprenticeship, but you get more complete training.