Cake Baking & Design
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Course overview
Harrods' famous wedding cake baker and decorator, Rosalind Miller, teaches you how to bake and decorate cakes.
Rosalind will take you behind the scenes of Rosalind Miller Cakes where you will learn how to create elegant, contemporary, design-led cakes. With head-baker Becky on hand to demonstrate, Rosalind will take you through the basics of baking - flavours, colours, troubleshooting and more.
She will let you in on one of her big trade secrets – her signature sponge recipe, as used in her kitchen for all her clients.
You will learn how you can adapt this recipe to incorporate your own artistic flair, and by the end of the course you will have created a six-inch, layered, lemon sponge with a watercolour marbling effect.
Throughout the course, Rosalind will give you detailed feedback on your work, design ideas and tips for the times it doesn't quite go to plan...
Together with a group of creative and like-minded bakers, you will finish the course armed with all the tools you need to create stunning cakes, for any celebration!
You'll learn:
- the basics of baking cakes
- how to decorate cakes professionally
- designing a showstopper cake for every occasion (weddings, baby showers, birthdays and more)
- combining cake flavours and colours in design
- how to save cake baking or cake decoration disasters
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Rosalind Miller
- lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical cake baking and decorating project (with feedback available from Rosalind)
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas
Time to complete the cake baking and decorating course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 13 hours 40 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 1 hour 40 minutes in total
- Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
- Your cake bake and decoration project: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
You'll need:
You'll need ingredients and standard kitchen equipment as well as: a hand mixer or a stand mixer, scales, aluminium tins X2, a turntable (for decorating), cake slicer, oven thermometer, confection thermometer. Full equipment and ingredients list are available in the course notes and recipes.
The course is suitable for all levels - from people just learning to bake cakes or wanting to bake a cake for a special occasion to people already baking professional cakes (or chefs) or running a cake decorating business who want to learn cake baking and decoration from a leading expert.
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Rosalind on your cake baking and decoration.
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Watch course trailer
Lesson summary
Introduction and getting started!
Flavour variations
Swiss Meringue Buttercream filling and layering
Finishing touches
Get the most from peer knowledge
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- Lessons with videos & notes
- Course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
Why choose Learning with Experts?
Frequently asked questions
What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT levels?
At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:
- Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
- Downloadable lesson notes
- Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
- Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom
If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:
- Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
- Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
- Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?
Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.
You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.
This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?
You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.
Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
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