Pastry Cook

Sqirl Llc; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the culinary landscape, Sqirl Llc is looking for a dedicated Pastry Cook to join their vibrant pastry team. This role involves producing a wide array of pastry items, collaborating on new dessert ideas, and ensuring all products meet high quality standards. Ideal candidates will have strong bread and lamination experience and a passion for creative kitchen experimentation.

Benefits

Healthcare options

401k benefits

Qualifications

• Must have experience with bread and lamination techniques.
• Enjoys experimenting and conceiving new pastry ideas.
• Ability to decorate cakes and work with whole grains.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for producing and developing pastry products.
• Communicate product needs with kitchen staff and assist with menu development.
• Prepare a variety of pastries and maintain quality standards.

Skills

Bread experience

Lamination experience

Creativity

Collaboration

Job description

Sqirl is looking for a 4-5 day a week pastry prep cook. Friday to Monday or Tuesday being the optimal schedule. This is a rare position to join our exceptional pastry team and help develop our dinner service pastry program.

Pastry Cook

Job Description and Responsibilities

The Pastry Cook is responsible for producing pastry products, fabricating pastry stock, assisting with, and individually creating new pastries as assigned by the Pastry Chef, and working with the team through production.

This will include, but not be limited to:

• Communicate all product needs with the Lead Pastry Cook, Pastry Chef, Chef de Cuisine, and Sous Chef.
• Assist in the development of seasonal desserts for the restaurant, bakery, catering, and holiday menus as assigned by the Pastry Chef.
• Be adept at producing basic mixtures, recipes, and products through complex methods of desserts and pastry production.
• Prepare consistently items such as creams, icings, mousses, sauces, fillings, doughs (including bread), batters, ice cream, and sorbet with minimal supervision.
• Fabricate or assemble cakes for special orders and production, with some higher finishing work capabilities.
• Produce a wide variety of pastries, cookies, and cakes.
• Decorate with chocolate.
• Ensure all products are of high quality and visually appealing.
• Properly store, package, and handle all bakery products to maintain quality.
• Mark, date, and rotate bakery products according to standards.
• Maintain production and cleaning schedules.
• Collaborate with FOH staff to organize, condense, and package bakery products for sale.

MUST HAVE Bread experience and Lamination experience.

We value experimentation and creativity. The right candidate should enjoy conceiving new ideas, decorating cakes, working with whole grains, understanding seasonality, and developing new crave-able items, especially for dinner service.

Please email your resume and tell us what excites you about pastry and why.

Benefits include healthcare options and 401k benefits.