Junior Baking Summer Academy
Four weeks. Four bakes.
Junior Baking Academy is our four-week course for young bakers ready to move past one-off workshops and actually learn to bake, properly, from the ground up. Each week builds on the last, so by graduation day your child isn’t just following a recipe. They understand why it works.
Small groups. Real skills. The Bread Ahead way.
How It Works
Every session introduces a new technique and a new bake, starting simple and building steadily toward something genuinely impressive.
Week 1 – Biscuits – Foundation The building blocks. Measuring ingredients properly, the rubbing-in method, rolling out dough, using cutters, baking, and decorating.
Week 2 – Muffins – Building Block Onto mixing. Separating wet and dry ingredients, mastering the ‘just enough’ method, and understanding how chemical leaveners like baking powder actually work.
Week 3 – Mini Pizzas – Stepping Up The big leap: kneading dough by hand, learning to recognise when it’s properly developed, understanding fermentation and proving, and shaping it themselves.
Week 4 – Cinnamon Rolls – Expert Rolling out enriched dough, spreading filling evenly, and rolling and cutting like a pro. A proper showstopper to take home.
This program runs from 3rd August to 31st August at our Borough Market and Wembley Bakery Schools and online.
Why It Works
Each week doesn’t just teach a recipe, it teaches a skill your child will use again and again. By week four, they’ll have gone from getting to grips with the ingredients through to shaping and baking an enriched dough from scratch.
The Junior Baking Summer Academy Bundle includes all four weekly workshops, plus a bonus workshop.
Enjoy exclusive access to the Junior Baking Summer Academy Graduation Ceremony.
The ceremony event features a special demonstration of how we make our doughnuts.
Junior bakers earn a certificate and take part in a special certificate presentation at the event.
