Our Story
A Story of Growth
From our first hello in June 2026 to the October intake, the first months of Pastry Art Academy, told month by month.
Welcome to Pastry Art Academy
We introduce ourselves to Johor Bahru as a professional baking and pastry school, with diploma programmes and short courses in a kitchen about 10 minutes from Mount Austin.
Diploma enrolment opens
The Level 2 Diploma opens for enrolment, taught in small classes with no baking experience needed, and the first weekend classes and student pieces follow.
- Level 2 Diploma in Baking and Patisserie opens for enrolment
- Weekend class: Korean strawberry rose wafer-paper cake
- Students' gingerbread houses, designed on paper first
- Students' chocolate tarts
Mooncakes, and a fully booked taster class
A packed month: weekend and parent-and-child classes, mooncakes for Mid-Autumn, and a Diploma taster class that was fully booked.
- Weekend hobby classes open, every Saturday and Sunday
- Traditional mooncakes
- Strawberry bear and bunny mooncakes
- A student's cake at a baby's first birthday party
- Korean rice-paper flower bouquet cake
- Parent-and-child baking class
- Wagyu burgers, with the buns made from scratch
- Diploma taster class, tiramisu, fully booked
New programmes, and the October intake
New programmes launch, guest teacher Teacher Orange visits, Diploma students bake with Chef Hang from Monday to Friday, and the October 2026 intake opens.
- Bread science: poolish, then tangzhong the next day
- Hokkaido milk pudding pineapple buns with Chef Hang
- Weekend Professional Baking Programme launches for working adults
- Korean bean paste floral choux with Diploma students
- Creative seafood breads: tuna, crab and octopus
- Classic castella class, three flavours
- October 2026 intake opens
- Guest classes with Teacher Orange: longevity agar-agar cake and vintage jelly flower cake