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Cake Baking and Decorating Diploma Course

Learn everything you need to know about cake decorating, from design to delivery. Packed with written, illustrated, and video instructions, the Cake Baking and Decorating Diploma Course will guide you, step-by-step, through the process of creating a delicious, beautifully decorated cake. You'll receive plenty of useful tips along the way, to help you hone and improve your baking and decorating skills.

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Course overview:

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10 Modules

12 Videos

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What Will You Learn?

Whether you’re a total rookie or looking to refine and perfect your existing skills, this online cake baking and decorating course offers everything you need to create beautiful, delicious cakes with professional flair.

Artistic, technical and delicious. The work of cake bakers and decorators is an interesting one and if you’ve found yourself wanting to try your hand at making your own cakes, but don’t know where to begin, then this is the course for you.

The Cake Baking and Decorating Diploma Course takes complete beginners and provides step-by-step guidance in written, illustrative and video forms to offer a level of understanding that may otherwise take much, much longer.

You may already have some experience with home baking and wish to advance your skills and increase your level of understanding, this course can help you with that too.

  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Getting Started
  • Part 2: Cake Decorating Equipment
  • Part 3: Consumable Items
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 1 Assessment

  • Part 1: Getting Creative
  • Part 2: Design Elements
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 2 Assessment

  • Part 1: Getting Started
  • Part 2: Ingredients
  • Part 3: Getting Ready to Bake
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 3 Assessment

  • Part 1: Sponge Cake Baking Tips
  • Part 2: Madeira Sponge Cake
  • Part 3: Chocolate Sponge Cake
  • Part 4: Flavour Adaptations
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 4 Assessment

  • Part 1: Making a Fruit Cake
  • Part 2: Fruit Cake Flavour Adaptations
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 5 Assessment

  • Part 1: Flavoured Syrups
  • Part 2: Preparing Sponge Cake for Covering
  • Part 3: Torting and Filling a Sponge Cake
  • Part 4: Crumb Coating
  • Part 5: Preparing Fruit Cake for Covering
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 6 Assessment

  • Part 1: Fondant Icing
  • Part 2: Covering a Round Cake Drum
  • Part 3: Covering a Round Cake
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 7 Assessment

  • Part 1: Quick and Easy Cake Toppers
  • Part 2: Creating Your Own Toppers
  • Part 3: Creating Number Toppers
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 8 Assessment

  • Part 1: Creating Cake Decorations Using Cutters
  • Part 2: Creating Decorations Using Moulds
  • Part 3: Wire Cake Fountains
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 9 Assessment

  • Part 1: Transferring the Cake
  • Part 2: Decorating the Cake
  • Part 3: Taking Photographs of Cakes
  • Part 4: Preparing for Delivery or Collection
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Module 10 Assessment

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The Cake Baking and Decorating Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.


This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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There is no time limit for completing your course it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

All of our courses vary in length but most of our courses will take you between 50 - 250 hours to complete. The length of this course can be found in the Accreditations section above.

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