The Cake Making – Level 2 Course is designed for students wanting to understand the basic skills, theories and approaches that are using in creating beautiful, imaginative and original cakes that are pleasing to the eye. The course will help you to develop your own skills in designing, baking and decorating your own cakes and will look at the different equipment used. It will show how you can create a cake from new and will examine the different varieties of cakes and fillings and will help you to understand the different types of icing techniques and delve into “Sugar Craft” and how this can be used to decorate cakes.
Whether you have a celebration or party coming up, want to start a new hobby or you just want to know more about this popular subject, cake making is all the rage at the moment so it’s a perfect time to explore this topic in more detail.
On successful completion of this course, students will receive an accredited Level 2 Certificate award.
Please Note: This course is also available as an Online Course with a 12-month license. If you would prefer the online version of the course then you can specify this in our online order form within the “Order Comments” box.
This Cake Making Course Includes The Following Units:
Unit 1: Chemistry & Baking
The following Topics are covered:
- The basic chemistry of baking
- Functions of the main ingredients
- Cake chemistry and Gluten in baking.
Unit 2: Equipment
The following Topics are covered:
- Equipment used for baking
- Sieves
- Electric mixers
- Thermometers
- Scales and measures
- Different types of tins
- Liners
- Cooling racks
- Icing guns and smoothers
- Spacers and levellers
- Dowling, tiers and spacers and Piping and embellishing.
Unit 3: Cake Types & Fillings
The following Topics are covered:
- Textures of cakes
- Types of cakes
- Multi-tiered cakes
- Sculpting cakes
- Cupcakes
- Layer cakes and Cake fillings.
Unit 4: Cake Design
The following Topics are covered:
- Design a cake from scratch
- Sketching
- Selecting cake types
- Equipment Trial and error
- Plan a cake and Potential obstacles.
Unit 5: Icing
The following Topics are covered:
- Fondant icing
- Royal Icing
- Buttercream
- Marzipan
- Sugar paste and Ganache.
Unit 6: Sugar Craft
The following Topics are covered:
- Introduction to sugarcraft
- Piping
- Creating flowers and petals
- Sugar paste
- Modelling Paste
- Texture and Colour visual effects.
To find out more about this Cake Making – Level 2 Course visit course provider website.
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