Bake confections

Description

Bake cakes, tarts and confectioneries using ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid such as milk or water and leavening agents such as yeast or baking powder. Add flavourful ingredients like fruit purées, nuts or extracts and numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 2 occupations
  • Optional in 1 occupations
  • Total: 3 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)

Essential for

  • Confectioner
    Confectioners make a varied range of cakes, candies and other confectionery items for industrial purposes or for direct selling. Other titles The following job titles also refer to…
  • Pastry maker
    Pastry makers create, decorate and present delectable desserts - cakes, pastries and pies - to customers in fine-dining restaurants, grocery stores and at weddings or anniversary p…

Optional for

  • Baker
    Bakers make a wide range of breads, pastries, and other baked goods. They follow all the processes from receipt and storage of raw materials, preparation of raw materials for …

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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