Learn Online: Introduction to Cake Decorating Syllabus: Introduction to Cake Decorating Course Description
Introduction to Cake Decorating: Why do you want to learn to make great cakes?
- An upcoming wedding (you've seen what a purchased wedding cake can cost)
- Did you agree to be a "classroom mother" and want to make special cakes for the holidays or specific units?
- Is there a baker in the family you're dying to out-do?
- Are you looking for the appeal offered by more traditional domestic skills?
- Are you hoping to enter a local or regional baking competition?
- Are you thinking of baking to earn some extra dough?
- Is your organization looking for new fundraising opportunities like an upper scale cake walk, perhaps?
These are only a few of the reasons that may have attracted you to this course. However, whatever your motives may be, here are the skills you can look forward to gaining in the following lessons: - Equipment, utensils, tools and preparations
- The basics of cake-baking: decorating techniques, lining your tines, working with marzipan and more
- Decorating your cake with butter cream icing
- Decorating your cake with royal icing
- Decorating your cake with sugar flowers
- Creating decorative children's cakes
- Holiday and celebration cakes, as well as
- Cake and frosting recipes
When we're finished, you'll be armed with everything you need in order to create delicious decorative cake designs with the power to make mouths start watering (and other bakers go green with envy). If those are the results you're looking for, let's get started... Course Requirements
You should be familiar with basic cooking concepts/procedures, know how to work around hot stove tops, and know how to use an oven. In addition, you'll need kitchen supplies--most you probably already own--such as a mixer, mixing bowls, double boilers, pastry brushes, round cake pans, candy thermometer, spatulas, and other miscellaneous supplies that we'll go into more detail in Lesson 1. Course Goals
This course is designed to help students understand the fundamental concepts of cake decorating -- from the designing/planning to actual implementation. This is a foundation course--while you will learn how to decorate a cake, to become really good at cake decorating will take work--you may have to decorate 5-10 cakes before you are happy with your masterpiece--but it is fun!
Grading Policy
While this course is for information purposes, I will grade your work based on any digital pictures you can send me of your progress, or if a camera is unavailble for your use, you may alternatively type a description of procedures performed and your state your success and familiarity with lesson topics covered.
Disclaimer
It is always dangerous working with hot ovens, stoves, knives, and kitchen equipment. You must know how to cook safely before attempting to do the lessons in this course.
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