Also called: Pastry Showpiece Artist, Pulled-Sugar Artist
Sculpts edible showpieces from pulled sugar, blown sugar, and chocolate for hotels and competitions.
You stretch hot sugar under a heat lamp into glossy ribbons, blow sugar like glass into swans, and assemble a four-foot sculpture for a gala. Many compete on TV and in the World Pastry Cup. It is part chemistry, part sculpture, and pure nerves.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 2 years after high school. Advanced pastry training and years of practice.
Ways in: Trade school, On-the-job training, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Baking & Pastry Arts.
Growing about average.
Low risk for 10 years. Pulling and blowing sugar into showpieces is pure hand craft; no machine does it.
Classes: Art (sculpture), Culinary arts CTE, Chemistry.
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