Basics of Baking a Cake

Name: Basics of Baking a Cake
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Learn how to bake a cake in this free online course that goes through many cake recipes to teach you baking principles.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

List the basic ingredients used to bake a cake
Outline different mixing methods and their role in cake-baking
Discuss the types of equipment and tools used to bake cakes
Recognise the classification of bakery products
Identify different types of cake and outline their recipes
Recognise the five baking principles
Recall different baking ideas that can help you to create yours
List different methods of working with different pastes
Describe types of cake decoration and note their distinctive features
Define ‘piping’ and ‘writing’ in terms of cake-baking and explain various piping techniques
Discuss the relationship between health and food hygiene

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