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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who decorates cakes and pastries with designs, using icing bag or handmade paper cone. Respnsibilities include: * Trims uneven surfaces of cake or cuts and shapes cake to required size, using knife. * Spreads icing between layers and on surfaces of cake, using spatula. * Tints white icing with food coloring. * Inserts die of specific design into tip of bag or paper cone and fills bag or cone with colored icing. * Squeezes bag to eject icing while moving bag with free-arm writing motions to form design on cake. * Forms decorations on flower nail and transfers decorations to cake, using spatula. * May mix icing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who decorates cakes and pastries with designs, using icing bag or handmade paper cone. Respnsibilities include: * Trims uneven surfaces of cake or cuts and shapes cake to required size, using knife. * Spreads icing between layers and on surfaces of cake, using spatula. * Tints white icing with food coloring. * Inserts die of specific design into tip of bag or paper cone and fills bag or cone with colored icing. * Squeezes bag to eject icing while moving bag with free-arm writing motions to form design on cake. * Forms decorations on flower nail and transfers decorations to cake, using spatula. * May mix icing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that melts and sprays chocolate on cookies or crackers to enrobe (cover) them. Respnsibilities include: * Fills machine hopper with chocolate, using buckets or conveyor. * Turns valve to regulate temperature of tank to melt and facilitate flow of chocolate, according to thermometer reading. * Starts machine to spray chocolate on cookies or crackers. * Observes cookies emerging from machine to ensure adequate coating. * May melt and temper chocolate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends trolley conveyors that convey icing-dipped cookies to cool and solidify them preparatory to packaging. Respnsibilities include: * Transports cookies and bowls of icing to other workers in trolley room, using handtruck. * Weighs icing on scales, records weights, and dumps contents of bowl into reservoirs. * Starts trolley conveyors and turns knob on rheostat to regulate its speed. * Turns valve in steam line or starts ventilating fans to adjust temperature of trolley room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that applies coating of sugar to candy, such as gumdrops and orange slices. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps sanding sugar into hopper of rotating cylinder. * Turns steam valve and starts conveyor that carries candy through steam bath for heating and moistening, and into cylinder for application of sugar coating. * Examines sugared candy as it emerges on conveyor and adjusts flow of steam and sugar to correct imperfections in coating. * Notifies other workers to remove malformed or improperly coated candies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to deposit filling, such as icing, marshmallow, or peanut butter on cookies or crackers. Respnsibilities include: * Installs specified nozzles in machine, using wrench. * Starts pump to load machine hopper with filling. * Starts conveyor to position cookies under nozzles. * Turns valve to deposit specified amount of filling on cookies. * Pulls lever to feed product under refrigerated roller to spread filling over cookies. * Wipes filling from roller, using wet cloth. * Verifies weight of cookies on scale. * May place pans or sheets of cookies under nozzles. * May mix ingredients for filling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dips candy centers, fruit, or nuts into coatings to coat, decorate, and identify product. Respnsibilities include: * Scoops liquid coating material onto slab of heated dipping table and kneads material, such as chocolate, fondant, or icing to attain specified consistency. * Drops candy into mass and swirls candy about until thoroughly coated, using fingers or fork. * Removes candy and marks identifying design or symbol on top, using fingers or fork, to identify type of center or brand. * May decorate top of candy with nuts, coconut, or other garnishment. * May mix coating ingredients and dip candy into vat containing coating material, regulating vat temperature to maintain specified consistency. * May pour liquid chocolate into molds to form figures. * May be designated according to type of center dipped as Bonbon Dipper; Cherry Dipper; Cream Dipper; Pecan-Mallow Dipper; or according to type of coating as Chocolate Coater; Icing Coater.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who marks top surface of coated candies with identifying or decorative stroke to simulate hand-dipped appearance. Respnsibilities include: * Dips fingers in semiliquid chocolate or other coating and marks candies with diagonal line, bead, or other design as candies emerge from enrobing (coating) machine on conveyor. * May mark tops of candies with symbol to identify type of center or flavor of candy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who covers baked goods with icing, frosting, or glaze by hand. Respnsibilities include: * Spreads icing evenly over surface of solid baked goods, using spatula. * Builds up layer cakes by spreading icing or filling between layers and then icing outer surface. * Applies glaze or thin icings to sweet rolls, fruit cake, speciality breads, and other items, using brush. * May sprinkle chocolate chips, shredded coconut, chopped nuts, or other decorative materials over baked goods. * May mix icings. * May pack iced products in cartons. * May be designated according to product iced as Bread Icer (bakery products); Cake Icer (bakery products); Doughnut Icer (bakery products); Pie Icer (bakery products); Roll Icer (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that covers food products with breading material. Respnsibilities include: * Opens bag and dumps breading material into breading machine hopper. * Turns valve to regulate flow of breading material onto food products on conveyor passing beneath hopper. * Observes machine to detect malfunction. * Cleans machine and conveyor with water.
Industry:Professional careers