Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion.
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that manages all your course completions.
This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.
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1.0 CEUs
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...
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).