What you'll learn

  • 🎂 Master the art of cake-making with step-by-step guidance from mixing to serving your delicious creations!
  • 🔧 Discover all the essential tools and materials for baking, assembling, and frosting your cake like a pro!
  • 🥣 Learn the secrets of mixing perfect cake batter with mouth-watering vanilla and chocolate recipes!
  • 🍰 Unlock the tips and tricks to baking the most deliciously moist cakes ever!
  • 🍥 Become an expert in preparing cake layers and assembling a stunning layer cake!
  • 🧁 Craft delicious fillings and frostings with recipes for flavorful and vibrant creations!
  • 💫 Master the techniques to frost round, square, and rectangular cakes with precision!
  • ✨ Add those professional finishing touches to elevate and decorate your cakes beautifully!
  • 🚚 Learn how to store, transport, and serve cakes to ensure they are perfect for any occasion!

Course Content

Introduction + Tools You'll Need

2 lectures
Introduction
Tools and Materials You'll Need

Mixing a Cake

1 lecture
Mixing a Cake

Baking a Cake

5 lectures
Preparing Cake Pans
Converting Recipes
Baking Cakes
Turning Cakes Out
Troubleshooting

Preparing Cake Layers

4 lectures
Levelling Cake Layers
Simple Syrup
Trimming and Dividing Cake Layers
Storing Cake Layers

Fillings and Frostings

5 lectures
Making Buttercream
Flavouring Buttercream
Colouring Buttercream
How Much Buttercream?
Storing Buttercream

Assembling a Cake

4 lectures
Assembling a Cake
Buttercream Dams
Rectangular and Square Cakes
Key Points

The Crumb Coat

2 lectures
The Crumb Coat
Square and Rectangular Cakes

The Final Coat

4 lectures
The Final Coat
Sharp Edges: Method #1
Sharp Edges: Method #2
Square and Rectangular Cakes

Finishing Touches

4 lectures
Finishing Touches
Borders
Toppers
Bases

Storing, Transporting and Serving Cakes

4 lectures
Storing
Transporting Cakes
Serving Cakes
Final Words

BONUS Module: Cake Decorating

1 lecture
Cake Decorating

Description

🎉 UPDATED with brand new videos and recipes in 2024! 🌟 This comprehensive pastry course is perfect for anyone looking to enhance the taste and presentation of their cakes. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced baker aiming to polish your skills, this course offers valuable insights and techniques.

📚 Over ten modules, you will learn everything from start to finish: mixing, baking, assembling, filling, frosting, decorating, storing, transporting, and serving a cake. The course also covers the essential tools and materials you need, with detailed guidance on how to use them effectively.

🍰 Enjoy a variety of recipes encompassing cakes, fillings, and frostings, alongside tips on perfecting even the tiniest details. Our course caters both the basics and more advanced techniques for those committed to a baking and cake decoration journey.

🎥 You’ll have access to close-up videos and step-by-step instructions that make each technique easy to follow. You're in control, with the ability to watch modules at your convenience and download or print the recipes along with quick reference guides, featuring photos and clear explanations for every step.

With this course, you will complete your learning journey confident in your ability to create the perfect cake! 🎂

Who this course is for:

  • 👩‍🍳 Beginner to Intermediate bakers and cake decorators looking to advance their skills
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Course Reviews

  • 😀 Dominik Jagucak
    5
  • 😀 Gina Lewis
    5
  • 😀 Curtean Cadmiela
    4.5
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    3.5
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    5
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    4
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    5

    The information was clear and filled with great tips for success!

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    5
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    4
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    4

    Really amazing course for beginner

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    5
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    5
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    5
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    5

    this is the best course ever she explained all the details to get the perfect cake i love it

  • 😀 Babishiya Ponnuthurai
    5

    this is a good course for beginers

  • 😐 Aniqa Ali
    3

    volume of the speaker is very low

  • 😀 Jennifer Walker
    5
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    5
  • 😀 jason michael Richard Hurley
    5

    The course was fun, interesting and very informative. Easy to follow and understand as well and all the quick reference guides and tipps are sure to help anyone from begginer to more advanced that might not have thought or learned some of these tipps and tricks.

  • 😀 Mary Riggs
    5
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    3.5
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    5
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    5
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    5
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    5
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    5

    great content, I have learned so many techniques. the instructor made everything easy to understand.

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    5
  • 😐 S Montgomery
    2

    So far on Chapter 3, and the video continually stops and starts. It's unwatchable. This is exclusive to this video, as I watch other Udemy courses on my computer with no issue

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    4.5
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    5
  • 😀 Sana Fathima
    4.5

    The course was incredibly comprehensive, staring from the basics of mixing a cake to decorating and serving a cake. Each module had a step-by-step tutorial and downloadable recipes which helped a lot along the course. The instructor , Chef Emily, was phenomenal. Her engaging teaching style and passion for baking made the learning process enjoyable. My experience with this course was incredibly positive and i highly recommend this course if you want to start baking or improve your skills in baking

  • 😀 Nusa Hashim
    5

    This course is informative, easy going and takes your cake baking, decorating, and serving to the next level. I really enjoyed it and recommend it.

  • 😀 Ola Ebi
    4

    It was a good match for me. It reminded me of my baking experiences, and I learnt a lot about the basics of cake.

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    5
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    5
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    3
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    5

    yes, it really is a good match for me

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    5

    I just purchased this course and I am so excited to start it 🤗

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    4
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    5
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    5
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    5

    Great

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    5
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    5

    happy with the video

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    5
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    5
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    5

    Merci

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    5

    Such an informative course and very well made.

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    5
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    5

    Great job explain.

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    5

    iIts clearly explained and good to learn for basic learners. Thank you so much

  • 😀 Anne Bernadette E. Chua
    5
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    4
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    5
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    5
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    5

    Great course to start with cake baking!

  • 😀 Angel Santee
    5

    Very informative. I love the videos in great detail. Now I know to not add everything at one time add separately and also not rush take my time.

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    5
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    5

    love this really helps with my cooking

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    5
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    5
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    5
  • 😀 Krzysztof Orlikowski
    5

    Very well explained, made 2 of the most delicious cakes i've ever tasted and my family absolutly loved them, thank you for this course.

  • 😀 Amen Mohammad Farooq
    5
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    4
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    5
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    3.5
  • 😀 Diane Liu
    5

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    5
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    5

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    5
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    5
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    5
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    4.5

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    5
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    4.5
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    4
  • 😀 Tammy Acosta
    5

    so far so great. I now understand why my cakes never rise. I'm really loving how she explains why we should or shouldn't do certain things.

  • 😀 Vasundhara
    5
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    5

    I like it

  • 😀 Katie Anderson
    5