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Cake Baking and DecoratingDiploma Course

Learn everything you need to know about cake decorating from design to delivery. Packed with written, illustrated, and video instruction, the Cake Baking and Decorating Diploma Course will guide you, step-by-step, through the process of creating a delicious, fully-decorated cake and provide you with countless hints, tips and tricks along the way.

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Course overview:

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10 Modules

12 Videos

Study Group Access

Earn reward points

What Will You Learn?

The cake baking course begins with a look at the essential tools and equipment you’ll be using, the process of designing a cake, and how to prepare yourself, your workspace and your ingredients.

You’ll be guided through baking a Madeira cake, a luxurious chocolate sponge, and a light fruit cake. Additionally, you’ll learn how to adjust ingredients for varying tastes and cake tin sizes.

You’ll discover how to level, torte, and fill your sponge with delicious fillings and cover in a buttercream crumb coating - ready to be covered in fondant icing. For fruit cakes, we look at how to cover them with an apricot jam glaze and marzipan.

The course then takes you through working with pre-made fondant and achieving a crisp, professional finish. You’ll learn about various cake decorations, and follow step-by-step guides to create a teddy bear and number toppers. The cake decorating course also covers how to make 2D and 3D decorations.

Finally, you’ll be shown how to combine your decorations and finish your cake. You’ll also be guided through other essential information, such as how to take a clear photograph of your creation, how to protect and transport it to a venue, and the food safety considerations, potential allergens and inedible parts of the cake that you should discuss with the recipient.

By studying this course, you will:

Receive step-by-step guidance through written, illustrated, and video instruction
Learn how to design, bake, decorate and deliver a cake
Fully understand the tools, techniques, and ingredients used to create beautiful cakes
Gain confidence in this craft and be able to meet the requirement of a brief

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

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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