Art & Science of Cake Baking - Stage 1

Have you ever marveled at your friend’s baking skills and wished you could bake a cake that is just as soft, as fragrant and delicious?  Here is a chance to learn the fundamentals and skills of baking! In Stage 1 of our series of modules, we will take you through the exciting journey of discovering the joys of baking.  The lessons include THEORY & PRACTICAL, a chance for you to learn and practice in class.

Highlights:

• Learn the fundamental principles in baking good cakes.    
• Understand the different types of flour  and types of ingredients used in baking cakes and how that affects the texture and tessaste
• Explore different mixing methods.
• Know how to control the heat of the oven.
• Recognize what went wrong in your baking
• How to enhance the look of cakes
• How to calculate baker’s percent and specific gravity of the cakes and how that helps it understanding the formulation of different types of cakes

Lesson1 (The Art of Butter Cake)
In this lesson we concentrate on the techniques of making moist and flavourful buttercakes like our golden butter cake and we also explore the many exciting possibilities of transforming and decorating them into attractive cheerful Sunflower cupcakes, delicious prune cake, coffee marbled walnut and cheese buttercakes. We will also share with you how you can add other ingredients such as nuts to turn them into more delicious treats.

Lesson 2         (The Art of Chiffon)
In this lesson, we will delve deeper into the fine art of making tender light and fluffy chiffons and how to formulate workable recipes. We will share with you 3 foolproof recipes on  how to do a pandan, golden citrus (where the refreshing flavours of orange and lemon are combined) chiffon  and  banana chiffon.

Lesson 3         (The Art of Swiss Roll)
Learn the art of making and rolling your swiss rolls without cracking. We will be doing an attractive Rainbow coloured swiss roll.  A feather roll that has an interesting feather design and a tiger roll which is a combination of 2 different coloured and flavoured cakes rolled together with an intriguing outer “skin”.

Lesson 4         (The Art of Sponges)
We will be doing  the good old favourite Pandan Kaya cake but with a modern twist-- when you slice the cake inside, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the interesting  chequered design in it! We will also be doing a most delicious sweet corn fudge cake and  another good old favourite-Blackforest cake

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