Course Overview

Use inspired flavor combinations to make your cakes irresistible. Set yourself apart from other bakers with uniquely delicious offerings. Renowned pastry chef Jenny McCoy teaches you to create and test your own flavor pairings for cakes, fillings, and frostings tailored to any palate. Along the way, learn nine base recipes to build the most memorable cakes.

Video Lectures

01: Chocolate Cake Flavors

Meet your instructor, Jenny McCoy, and dive right in as she shows you how to make a decadent, moist chocolate cake and five flavor variations.

Duration: 25 min

02: White & Yellow Cake Flavors

Learn how to add ground espresso, flavored extracts, fresh fruit, or grapefruit zest to produce flavorful variations on Jenny’s delicious white cake and yellow sponge cake.

Duration: 48 min

03: Fruit Curds & Cooked Custards

Cook a thick, rich lemon thyme curd or steep flavor into a toasted almond pastry cream in this lesson devoted to curd and cooked custard fillings.

Duration: 32 min

04: Chocolate Mousse

Create a luscious chocolate mousse filling using the traditional French technique of pâte à bombe. Jenny discusses types of chocolate and their flavor pairings.

Duration: 26 min

05: Frostings

Jenny demonstrates how to make Italian meringue, which she uses as the base for her cocoa hazelnut orange buttercream frosting, as well as a tiramisu-inspired cream cheese frosting.

Duration: 40 min

06: Basics of Cake Building

Learn how to level, stack, frost, and decorate to create finished cakes that look as good as they taste!

Duration: 41 min