Your members area...

This resource is packed with super useful stuff for bakery students and trainees who are completing college and university baking qualifications. The main goal of this members area is to give you some handy resources to help you out while you’re studying at uni or college, or even at work. But we’re not just thinking about students here. We’ve also got some awesome lecturer resources that you can download too, including presentations about the organisation for enrolment week and any other useful stuff we think you might find helpful...

resources for learning...

Everyday's a school day! So if you want to learn the basics on bread, this short book might be just what you have been looking for. Created for bakery students studying Level 2 and 3 Bakery course and even some Level 4 topics, this hopefully helps explain those tricky technical terms from fermentation right through to mixing methods! Download it for free now!

Bread | The basic ingredients and how they work 
Author - Christopher Foxall (2019)  | University College Birmingham

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...and viennoiserie

Need some help with your vennoiserie? Then look no further. This book focuses on production and technology including classics like croissant, pain au chocolate and Danish Pastries. 

It also provides a history into the topics as well as ingredient functionality. Download it for free below!

Viennoiserie | Production & Technology 
​Author - Graham Duckworth (2020) | University College Birmingham

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Other baking books that might be useful...

Here are our picks for useful baking books for both students and lecturers. All of these books provide technical detail about the function of ingredients and also discuss industry as well. Very useful if you are studying a bakery course from Level 3 to Level 6. These are not free, so you will have to buy them, and make sure that your college or university library doesn't already have a copy before you buy one, unless of course you want you own copy to keep. If you would like to suggest some additions to our list below, then get in touch with us and we will add them!

CBA Book of Breadmaking (2023) 
Available to buy on Amazon

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The Science of Bakery Products (2009)
Available to buy on Amazon

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Lecturer resources

We know that being a bakery lecturer means that pulling resources together can be really time consuming, so here you will find some really useful resources that will not only save time, but also ensure that your students have the most up to date information about the alliance. Here you will find presentations about the alliance that you can download and use during induction weeks, to encourage students to become members early on in the academic year, so that they get all of the opportunities available to them.

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Induction Presentation
PowerPoint presentation introducing the ABST, providing an overview of membership, conference and national competitions.