Course Syllabus

Why do you want to learn to make great cakes?

1. An upcoming wedding (you've seen what a purchased wedding cake can cost)  
2. Did you agree to be a "classroom mother" and want to make special cakes for the holidays or specific units?
3. Is there a baker in the family you're dying to out-do?  
4. Are you looking for the appeal offered by more traditional domestic skills?
5. Are you hoping to enter a local or regional baking competition?
6. Are you thinking of baking to earn some extra dough?
7. 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, planning and designing your cake, lining your tines, and more
• Working with Marzipan, Icing, Glaze and Filling Choices
• Decorating your cake with butter cream icing
• Decorating your cake with royal icing
• How to make and use a piping bag
• Decorating with Sugar Flowers (and Other Gum Paste Creations)
• Making and Decorating Wedding Cakes
• Creating decorative children's cakes
• Holiday and celebration cakes
• Theme Cakes
• Beloved Cupcakes
• And More Cake and frosting recipes to express your creativity

With practice and patience, cake decorating can be learned. This exclusive course starts you out with the basics from designing your work space, cake baking, decorating tools, prepping a cake for decorating and many tips of the trade to help you create delectable cakes, icings and fillings. You'll learn the importance of texture and the temperament of icings, how to avoid cake catastrophes, ways to fix them and still keep your cake looking perfect.

Whether you're looking to start a cake decorating business or just make cakes for family and friends, Cake Decorating 101 will teach you all you need to know to turn out professionally decorated cakes. You'll develop techniques practiced by professional cake decorators such as applying buttercream icing, how to make a rose, level a cake, pour ganache and master a piping bag.

From breath taking designs to whimsy, all the latest cake decorating trends are disclosed, with instructions and ideas about how to bake and decorate the darlings of the cake world, finger licking cupcakes.