Learn How to Bake Showstopper Cakes with BBC Good Food
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Course author
- Cassie Best
Description
Ready to create beautiful celebration cakes that will rival any Great British Bake Off showstopper?
This course takes you on a delicious journey through the cake making process of several baked items, as well as the fundamentals of cake making and the baking science behind it.
You’ll build a collection of tried and tested celebration cake recipes straight from the BBC Good Food kitchen, and try your hand at core baking techniques like crumb coating, glazing, and more.
Learn top cake baking techniques and tipsWhether you’re baking a one-off wedding cake, making birthday cakes for friends or family, or baking at bake sales or for your small business, this course will develop your understanding of the skills and baking science needed to bake a series of celebration cakes.
You’ll learn exactly how baking works so that you can amend recipes to your tastes, and respond to any baking mishaps you may encounter along the way.
Experiment with gravity defying baking designs and methodsShowstopper cakes have to look (and taste) extra special and this course includes an exploration of the structural design of cakes as well as investigation of cake textures and flavours.
You’ll also interrogate eatability versus appearance, and explore techniques such as crumb coating, frosting, mirror glazes, drips, and hidden patterns.
Study cake making with experienced bakers at BBC Good FoodBBC Good Food has over 30 years of culinary teaching experience and with thousands of tried and tested cake recipes under their belt, this course offers new and useful skills to cake bakers of all levels.
Plus, as well as recipes and advice, you’ll get essential tips on bakeware and kitchen equipment worthing buying, as well as transporting finished cakes.
