The curriculum framework baking and pastry education has been waiting for.

Grades 6–12. Three course levels. Aligned to ServSafe, ACF, and RBA. Built for the teacher who has the expertise — and needs the infrastructure.

Built on experience. Aligned to industry. Ready for your classroom.

3 Course Levels

8 Curriculum Units

Industry-Aligned

ServSafe · ACF · RBA

15+ Years of Culinary Education Experience

Built for CTE, Homeschool & Professional Educators

You've been ready. The framework just hadn't caught up yet.

Your credentials are real. Your technique is proven. Your industry experience is exactly what students need.

What you deserved from day one was a curriculum infrastructure built to match it.

That's what this is.

Four pillars. One complete framework.

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Curriculum

A fully mapped, three-level baking and pastry curriculum—Unit 1 through Unit 8—sequenced for skill progression and aligned to national industry standards. No more building from scratch.

Credentials

Every lesson connects to the credentials that matter in the industry: ServSafe, ACF, and RBA. Students don't just learn to bake—they learn to qualify.

Community

A growing network of baking educators — classroom teachers, CTE instructors, homeschool educators, and professional bakers entering teaching — learning together and building better programs

Classroom

Lesson plans, assessments, instructor guides, and ready-to-use resources that make implementation simple. Built for real classrooms, real students, and real teaching conditions.

The only platform built at the intersection of culinary authority and education strategy.

BakingandPastryCurriculum.com was built by a Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef with dual master's degrees in Adult Education & Instructional Design and Transformational Leadership & Coaching—because no one else had built it yet.

This isn't a recipe collection with a lesson plan attached. It's a structured curriculum engine designed to close the gap between culinary expertise and classroom infrastructure — for every educator who has ever walked into a baking lab and wondered where to start.

  • Fully sequenced curriculum across three course levels

  • Designed for CTE programs, homeschool families, and professional bakers entering education

  • Aligned to ServSafe, ACF, and Retail Bakers of America standards

  • Built on adult education theory and real culinary industry experience

What grade levels does this curriculum cover?

The curriculum is designed for Grades 6–12 and structured across three course levels—Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced—so educators can meet students where they are and build intentional skill progression year over year.

Do I need a formal teaching background to use this curriculum?

No. The framework was specifically designed for culinary professionals entering education. If you have industry expertise and are now in a classroom, this curriculum gives you the structure you need without requiring a traditional education background.

How is this curriculum aligned to industry standards?

Every unit and lesson is mapped to ServSafe food safety requirements, ACF competencies, and Retail Bakers of America standards — so students are building credentials, not just skills.

What do I get with the free Unit 1 download?

Unit 1 covers Safety and Sanitation — the essential foundation of every baking and pastry program. You receive the full unit: lesson plans, instructor notes, and student-facing materials. It's fully ready to implement.

Built by an educator who is also a practitioner.

Kimberly I. Houston is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef, culinary education strategist, and the founder of TeachMeHowToBake. For over a decade, Chef Kimberly has developed homeschool curriculum for children ages 8-12.

She holds dual master's degrees in Adult Education and Transformational Leadership and Coaching. She has spent over fourteen years at the intersection of baking and pastry arts, curriculum design, and professional development.

She built this platform because she saw what was missing — not just a resource, but a standard. A curriculum framework rigorous enough for industry alignment and practical enough for the real classroom.

Start with what every baking program needs on day one.

Download Unit 1 — Safety and Sanitation — free. See exactly how the curriculum is structured, what your students will learn, and why this framework is the standard baking education has been missing

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