Cake... everyone loves cake!  If you like making people happy, then this Cake Baking & Decorating Diploma Course is for you!

Of course you'll need a bit of a sweet tooth too!

The 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 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

COURSE SYLLABUS

Module 1: Cake Decorating Tools and Equipment

Part 1: Getting Started

Part 2: Cake Decorating Equipment

Part 3: Consumable Items

Module 1 Assessment

Module 2: Designing a Cake

Part 1: Getting Creative

Part 2: Design Elements

Module 2 Assessment

Module 3: Planning and Preparation

Part 1: Getting Started

Part 2: Ingredients

Part 3: Getting Ready to Bake

Module 3 Assessment

Module 4: Baking Sponge Cakes

Part 1: Sponge Cake Baking Tips

Part 2: Sponge Cakes

Part 3: Chocolate Sponge Cake

Part 4: Flavour Adaptations

Module 4 Assessment

Module 5: Fruit Cake

Part 1: Making a Fruit Cake

Part 2: Fruit Cake Flavour Adaptations

Module 5 Assessment

Module 6: Preparing Your Cake

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

Module 6 Assessment

Module 7: Working with Fondant

Part 1: Fondant Icing

Part 2: Covering a Round Cake Drum

Part 3: Covering a Round Cake

Module 7 Assessment

Module 8: Creating Cake Toppers

Part 1: Quick and Easy Cake Toppers

Part 2: Creating Your Own Toppers

Part 3: Creating Number Toppers

Module 8 Assessment

Module 9: Creating Cake Decorations

Part 1: Creating Cake Decorations Using Cutters

Part 2: Creating Decorations Using Moulds

Part 3: Wire Cake Fountains

Module 9 Assessment

Module 10: Completing Your Cake

Part 1: Transferring the Cake

Part 2: Decorating the Cake

Part 3: Taking Photographs of Cakes

Part 4: Preparing for Delivery or Collection

Conclusion

Module 10 Assessment

Accreditations

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.

Upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from ABC Awards 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 £15).

ABC Awards is a leading national Awarding Organisation, regulated by Ofqual, and the Welsh Government. It has a long-established reputation for developing and awarding high-quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries.

This course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme.

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