Cake Mastery: Master Cake Decoration at Mejoria
Embark on an exciting journey into the world of cake decoration, where you’ll not only learn techniques but also unlock your creative potential. This course is designed to guide you step-by-step in crafting stunning and delicious cake masterpieces, blending art and science seamlessly.
The Cake Mastery course covers all the key skills you need in cake engineering and decoration. You’ll start with the essentials, including food safety, the science of baking perfect cakes, and creating egg-free masterpieces. As you progress, you’ll master whipped cream cakes, refining your skills in torting, filling, and achieving sharp edges. Dive into buttercream techniques to create rich shades, textures, and modern styles, while also exploring ganache, fondant, and gum paste to elevate your cake artistry. The course culminates with advanced wedding cake creation and royal icing techniques, giving you all the tools to bring your cake visions to life. Get ready to unleash your inner cake artist!
Certified by City & Guilds, London
Cake Mastery Course Highlights
Course Overview:- This 4-week course teaches advanced techniques for modern wedding, celebration, hand-painted, structural, airbrushed, and gravity-defying cakes.
- Course Duration: 4 weeks
- Modern Wedding Cakes
- Celebration & Theme Cakes
- Hand Painted Cakes
- Gumpaste Realistic Flowers
- Hanging & Chandelier Cakes
- Rotating Cakes
- Hanging & Chandelier Cakes
- Structure & Gravity Defying Cakes
- Realistic Airbrushing & Carved Cakes
- Royal Icing & String Work
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
Module 1: Introduction
- Food hygiene and safety
- Science behind baking a perfect cake
- Types of sponge, layering ratios
- Baking an EGG-FREE cake
Module 2: Whipped Cream Cakes
- Torting and layering a whipped cream cakes
- Various types of fillings
- How to crumb coat
- Obtaining sharp edges, introduction to basic tools, nozzles and piping techniques.
- How to whip cream perfectly, colour mixing techniques
- How to use edible print
Module 3: Buttercream Cake
- Techniques to get sharp edges in buttercream cakes
- How to colour the buttercream and get dark shades
- Creating textures in buttercream
- Bordering tecniques, various cake textures using basic tools
- Modern buttercream styling techniques
- Buttercream flower bouquet
- Painting a buttercream cake
Module 4: Celebration Cakes
- Understanding ganache ratios and fluidity
- Torte, layer and ganache a cake
- Fondant draping, decoration and finishing techniques
- Covering and decorating a cake board
- Cake toppers, animal figurines
- Designing a theme based cake
Module 5: Gum Paste Flowers
- Creating your own ALL WEATHER PROOF gumpaste
- Making sugar flowers, (peony, rose, hibiscus, poppy, leaves, buds, fillers)
- Arranging a bouquet
- Concepts of designing a cake
Module 6: Wedding Cakes
- Cake structuring
- Stacking and assembling a tier cake
- Use of false layers and dummies
- Concept of colour palette and design
- Textures, airbrushing, sugar lace, stenciling, wax paper transfer, wafer paper techniques, hand painting
- Pricing and packaging, transport and logistics
Module 7: Royal Icing
- How to make your own royal icing.
- Coloring royal icing
- Royal icing cookies.
- Royal icing transfers.
- Basic string work, Lambeth and overpiping.
Module 8: Cake Carving
- Cake carving techniques
- Ganaching and fondant covering (flower pot, ice cream cone, whiskey barrel, watering can, sneakers, handbags)
- Introduction to modeling chocolate – usage, colouring and finishing.
- Structure cakes, gravity defying cakes and chandelier cakes.
