Chocolatiers make confectionery products with chocolate. They perform activities such as examination, feeling, and tasting of ground chocolate paste. Such analysis leads them to ascertain if colour, texture, and taste of the chocolate paste meets specifications.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Making bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries, pies and other flour products;
(b) Making handmade confectionery from mixtures of sugar, chocolate and other ingredients using hand tools and some machines;
(c) Combining measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending or cooking machinery;
(d) Checking the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met;
(e) Applying glazes, icings or other toppings to baked goods, using spatulas or brushes;
(f) Checking the cleanliness of equipment and operation of premises before production runs to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations;
(g) Monitoring oven temperatures and product appearance to determine baking times;
(h) Coordinating the forming, loading, baking, unloading, de-panning and cooling of batches of bread, rolls, pastry and confectionary products.