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

