Learn from Renowned Culinary Experts

One of the main distinguishing features of The Bailiwick Academy from other online learning platforms is the expertise of chef instructors in their community. With real culinary skills shaped by years of professional practice, the quality of outputs and learning experience you can expect is beyond outstanding.

Online baking courses from The Bailiwick Academy are led by renowned chefs from across the globe. Here are two instructors at The Bailiwick Academy with certified achievements:

Chef Miko Aspiras
Award-Winning Pastry Chef Recognized by 2018 Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30

Filipino pastry chef Miko Aspiras was only 11 years old when he first started baking. He used to crush graham crackers to help his aunt in her catering business. And today, he is a world-class pastry chef, winning award after award.

According to Forbes Asia, “He has had his eye on the culinary path ever since. Aspiras started as a commis chef at the Shangri-La in Manila, and has worked in a number of top hotels since such as Resorts World Manila and Raffles. The 29-year-old has also started his own food group called Tasteless; he co-owns seven restaurant concepts under that umbrella in the Philippines.”

Other than Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30 List, Chef Miko has also won Tatler Philippines’ Best Pastry Chef 2018, and became a featured speaker and lecturer of the Madrid Fusion Manila 2016 and Esquire Philippines’ Chef of the Year 2015.

His experience in the industry ranges from working in casual diners to high-end restaurants, and now, he has become the Executive Pastry Chef of a major hotel and a fine dining restaurant in Sydney, Australia.

Chef Joey Prats
Internationally Trained Pastry Chef with Decades of Experience

Just a year later than Chef Miko, Chef Joey started baking when he was 12. By the age of 20, he earned the title of being the country's youngest Executive Pastry Chef, working in the kitchens of the Hyatt Terraces Baguio.

He then travelled to New York City after graduating from college in 1989 to get an Associate Degree in Baking & Pastry Arts from The Institute of Culinary Education (formerly known as Peter Kump's New York Cooking School).

Quite frankly, the list of high-level food service establishments and academic institutions Chef Joey has worked in is too long to list. But to give you an idea, some of them include the Center for Culinary Arts Manila, the Culinary Institute of Aristocrat, and the Embassy of Chocolate (Indonesia).

Wide Range of Course Offerings

Even though baking takes much of the center stage for The Bailiwick Academy community, its curriculum offers over 200 different culinary courses on the website, ranging from savory viands, kakanin (Filipino rice cake), to arts and crafts and marketing classes! And that was in 2024, how many more do you think they have now?

In an interview with the Daily Tribune, Grace shared, “So, ‘yong mga instructors namin (our instructors) they have their own research and development, one example lang dito is ‘yong about Philippine regional longganisa. We have eight classes na longganisa doon, we have Imus, Calumpit, vegan longganisa, Lucban, chorizo de Cebu and more. Aside do’n sa longganisa mayro’n din kaming mga pasalubong na mga na class. So nando’n naman ‘yong mga piyaya, otap from Bacolod and biskotso, mga ganyan (Aside our longganisa classes, we also offer course for delicacies. It includes classes for making piyaya, otap from Bacolod and biskoto, those types),”

With such a commitment to offering recipes and classes that suit everyone’s preferences, The Bailiwick has practically become a modern online training ground for those who would like to strengthen their hobbies and possibly start a business. Having thousands and thousands of enrollees from all over the world, The Bailiwick Academy can attest that they are the best among all virtual learning platforms.

A Platform to Build Aspiring Food Entrepreneurs

That’s not all of what sets The Bailiwick Academy apart from other online learning platforms. More than sharing courses taught by experts, they encourage their students to build a business and share tips on starting and maintaining it.

Hobbies That Earn Money

Surely, you see those free recipe tutorials on YouTube from passionate home cooks who film in their kitchen, probably with a bit of unwashed bowl peeking through the corner or poor lighting with unstable camerawork. Then you try to endure through the distractions until the end of the video while making your pie, only to be disappointed with the results.

Because cooking is seen as some sort of leisure for most of the first-time enrollees of The Bailiwick Academy, Grace uses this as an opportunity to create an urge to make this hobby or passion earn money.

In another part of the interview with the Daily Tribune, Grace shared, “If you’re going to check our website din you will notice that our classes are all geared towards entrepreneurship. So, we help our students turn their passion into a profitable business. In that way they can have a stable source of income. ‘Yung susunod naming mga programs are more on the business na talaga — food entrepreneurship (Our succeeding programs are more on the business side of cooking, like food-entrepreneurship),”

Successful Filipino Entrepreneurs from The Bailiwick Academy

Grace’s efforts in incorporating an entrepreneurial aspect into its online courses are surely bearing fruit. Among the overwhelming number of enrollees who have joined and continuously join their community, there are success stories from The Bailiwick Academy students that have been written through hard work and courage.

“We have this student from Canada, which is Filipino. So, mayro’n na siyang sarili ngayon na bakeshop. Dati from employee lang siya. And then ‘yong isang student from Cavite na dati sa pharmaceutical field naman siya, tapos ngayon mayroon na siyang restaurant niya.” Grace proudly shared.

Many of these stories include enrollees who left their jobs to be a full-time baker or built a home-based baking business while working full-time for extra income, and they all credit The Bailiwick Academy for its comprehensive courses that led to their success, that unexpectedly, signing up for that one course turned into the future they’ve always dreamed of.

Affordable, Accessible, and Flexible Learning Courses

One of the best things about The Bailiwick Academy’s courses is that you do not have to run on the way home to catch a webinar or free time you do not have just to attend. Imagine having to pay for a class you might risk missing; can’t be me when The Bailiwick Academy exists.

When you purchase a class from TBA, the workbooks are available for download, and the videos are playable anytime, which means that you can view them anytime, anywhere. The course is completely yours, PERMANENTLY!

The prices are quite affordable as well, especially if you look at the fact that you can build a thriving business from what, Php 1000? Even lower, actually.

Grace explained, “Napaka-affordable po ng mga classes namin. Sobrang sulit ng mga classes namin. Actually they can start learning as low as P999. Tapos, if they sign up doon sa website namin, they get a P500 voucher pa (Our classes are all affordable. It’s worthy of your pennies. Actually they can start learning for as low as P999. Also, if they sign up on our website, they get a P500 voucher).”

Many students have shown appreciation for this kind of system, that they can learn anytime they prefer. Some say that they watch and listen to the classes while driving to work, some while cooking breakfast, and some before they sleep. This system is particularly friendly, mindful, and acknowledging of the variety of lives every learner has.

Get your Php 500 voucher now! Sign up for The Bailiwick Academy.