Cake Decorating

Overview

Explore the sugar art of cake decorating with Jenny McCoy as your expert guide to the essential tools, materials, and techniques for professional-quality results.

Ready to sweeten up your skills? In this comprehensive beginner’s class, you’ll learn how to bake and construct a variety of one-tiered frosted cakes with professional-quality results. Discover essential tools, materials, and techniques, including fondant, buttercream, sugar flowers, piping, hand modeling, and much more.

Course Outline

• Introduction to Cake Decorating
  • Duration: 6 min
  • Understand the fundamentals of cake decorating, basic tools, and the timeline for making your first cake.

2. How to Bake a Cake
   • Duration: 19 min
   • Learn to prepare, mix, and bake a yellow butter-based cake, with options for making a chocolate version.

• Making Swiss Meringue Buttercream
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Create Swiss meringue buttercream, a step up from traditional frosting.

• Constructing a Single-Tier Cake
  • Duration: 52 min
  • Trim, stack, fill, and frost a single-tier cake with a crumb coat and final coat for a polished finish.

• Buttercream: Textured Finishes
  • Duration: 7 min
  • Discover techniques for buttercream texturing: horizontal ridge, vertical stripe, and brushed finish.

6. Buttercream: Preparing to Pipe
   • Duration: 23 min
   • Learn to color buttercream and fill a piping bag for great results.

• Buttercream: Simple Designs & Borders
  • Duration: 46 min
  • Practice simple designs and create borders with round and star tips.

8. Buttercream: Piped Roses & Leaves
   • Duration: 19 min
   • Master piping buttercream roses with step-by-step instructions.

• Fondant: Handling & Coloring
  • Duration: 16 min
  • Learn to handle, store, and color fondant for professional-looking cakes.

• Fondant: Rolling Out & Covering a Cake
  • Duration: 34 min
  • Roll and drape fondant over cakes, fixing common problems as you go.

• Fondant: Cutouts
  • Duration: 23 min
  • Make fondant decorations and learn a no-stress method for writing messages on cakes.

• Fondant: 3-D Roses
  • Duration: 39 min
  • Create classic fondant roses through hand-modeling techniques.

13. What’s Next: Design Ideas & Inspiration
    • Duration: 4 min
    • Learn to mix and match techniques for creating themed cakes for any occasion.