Pastry Chef – R&D; / Product Development

We are looking for a creative and experienced Pastry Chef with strong R&D; and product development skills to join our team.

This role is ideal for someone who is not only confident in pastry production, but also enjoys experimenting, developing new flavours, improving recipes, and turning ideas into products that can be consistently produced and sold.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and test new pastry, dessert, cake, and seasonal product concepts
- Create current recipes based on brand direction, customer preferences, and current market trends
- Improve existing recipes in terms of flavour, texture, presentation, consistency, and cost
- Conduct recipe testing and product trials before launching new items
- Standardize recipes, portion sizes, preparation methods, and production procedures
- Calculate ingredient costs and support product pricing and margin control
- Work closely with the management and marketing team on new product launches
- Research new ingredients, techniques, flavours, and dessert trends
- Ensure new products can be reproduced consistently by the kitchen team
- Train team members on newly developed recipes and production standards
- Maintain food quality, hygiene, food safety, and kitchen standards
- Support daily pastry production when required

What We’re Looking For

- Professional experience as a Pastry Chef, Pastry Sous Chef, R&D; Chef, or similar role
- Strong knowledge of pastry, cakes,



desserts, creams, fillings, baking techniques, and ingredient functions
- Proven ability to independently develop and test new recipes
- Good understanding of recipe costing and commercial production
- Creative mindset with a strong sense of flavour, texture, and presentation
- Able to turn creative ideas into practical, scalable recipes
- Strong attention to detail and consistency
- Able to document recipes and establish clear SOPs
- Comfortable working independently as well as collaborating with a team
- Knowledge of Asian, Korean, Japanese, or modern café-style desserts would be an asset

Preferred Experience

- Experience developing products for a bakery, café, dessert shop, or commercial kitchen
- Experience with seasonal or limited-edition product launches
- Understanding of shelf life, storage, production efficiency, and ingredient substitution
- Experience training production teams on new recipes

Role Objective The main goal of this position is to continuously develop new, commercially viable pastry and dessert products while maintaining strong quality, consistency, and production efficiency. We’re looking for someone who can take an idea from:

Concept → Recipe Testing → Costing → Standardization → Team Training → Product Launch

Pay: $18.00-$25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20.0 – 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person

📌 Pastry Chef (North York)
🏢 6 Cloud
📍 North York