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Pastry, chocolate & baking guides
Straight answers on chocolate, pastry careers, pay and schools, with the sources at the bottom of every page.
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Chocolate
Swiss chocolate: history, how it’s made, the names to know
Cailler, Suchard, Peter, Lindt and Tobler: how a small country became the home of milk chocolate, and how chocolate is made today.
Study
Baking school in Switzerland
Professional bread, viennoiserie, pastry and chocolate training in English: what you learn, what it costs, the paid internship.
Careers
Pastry chef salary
What pastry chefs and bakers earn in the US and in Switzerland, from official wage data, with CHF and US dollar figures.
Careers
How to become a pastry chef
The routes into a pastry kitchen (school, apprenticeship, on the job), how long each takes, and the certifications that count.
Compare
Pastry schools in the world, Europe and Switzerland
A factual overview of well-known pastry schools: where they are, what they teach, how long, in which language. No invented rankings.
Baking
Three Kings cake (Rosca de Reyes)
The Epiphany bread of Mexico and Spain: where it comes from, how it differs from a New Orleans king cake, and a professional recipe.
En español
Estudiar
Curso y carrera de repostería en Suiza
Certificado de 10 semanas, diploma de un año con prácticas pagadas o la carrera completa: qué aprendes y cuánto cuesta en pesos.
Chocolate
Chocolate suizo: historia, elaboración y nombres clave
De Cailler a Lindt: cómo Suiza se volvió el país del chocolate con leche y cómo se hace el chocolate hoy.
Repostería
Rosca de Reyes: historia, tradición y receta
De dónde viene la rosca, qué significa el muñeco y por qué hay tamales el 2 de febrero, con una receta profesional en gramos.
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Three intakes a year. One decision that pays you back.
Next intakes: November 2026 · February 2027 · August 2027 · Lucerne, Switzerland
Every programme year pairs a taught semester with a six-month paid internship — CHF 2'390/month gross minimum in Switzerland under the national hospitality labour agreement. How the internship model works