Free Cake Decorating Courses

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Cookies & Cream Cake Tutorial
How can you resist this mouth watering design? This free cookies & cream cake tutorial takes you through every step to creating this design and you’ll be amazed at how surprisingly easy it is to achieve such a WOW factor design.

Paul starts by discussing all the delicious ingredients, but don’t worry if you don’t have everything on the list as this design has plenty of scope to be flexible. To start, you will need 5x 6″ round cakes at 1″ depth. There are plenty of recipes to choose from in the BAKING section. If you need to change the sizes of any of the recipes provided please use our Cake Recipe Re-Sizing Calculator.

You will then learn how to make smooth buttercream before going on to properly layer a stacked cake. Paul then creates a delicious chocolate ganache for the drip effect and finishes with a range of sweet treats.…

Mint Chocolate Drip Cake Tutorial
Learn how to make a Mint Chocolate Drip Cake with the multi-award winning Paul Bradford!

This recipe will bake 2x 8″ round cakes @ 3″ depth or as Paul bakes, 4x 8″ round cakes @ 1.5″ depth. If you are looking for a different size bake then select Mint Chocolate Drip cake from our recipe RE-CALCULATOR.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…

Make mint chocolate buttercream & ganache
Create a drip effect
Bake a mint flavoured cake
Smooth your buttercream for a perfect finish
and much, much more

Don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Facebook group.

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Learn how to make Rich Fruit cake with Paul Bradford
Learn how to make rich fruit cake the Paul Bradford way. Paul likes to soak his fruit well in advance to really bring out the flavours and give the cake that moistness often lacking in a fruit cake.

In this tutorial you will learn how to…

Soak and prepare the fruit
Mixing the ingredients to the right consistency
Add the fruit
Bake to perfection
and much, much more

There are lots of important techniques to learn so don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Facebook group.

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Baking superstar Mrs Jones is here to teach us how to make her super tasty toffee cake.
The cake has been in high demand for many members of the site and we’re certain it’s worth the wait!

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Join Paul and David as they host an action packed show with highlight videos from:

Hanging Handbag – Mayen Orido

Party Capers – Karen Keaney

Chocolate Shard – Paul Bradford

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Award winning baker Mrs Jones is here to teach us how to bake a wonderful Madeira cake. Baking the perfect Madeira cake can be quite tricky but Mrs Jones will show you how to bake it stress-free and get it right every time.…

Join Paul and David as they host an action packed show with highlight videos from:

Strawberry Delight – Paul Bradford

Stained Glass Wave – Sidney Galpern

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – Paul Bradford

Pricing Your Cakes – David Brice

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So, I’m going to need stuff to get going right? Yes, you will need some tools and knowing where to start is very important. In this free cake decorating course, Paul takes you through all of the commonly used tools in his kit and tells you a little about each one.

The fantastic Ceri Griffiths teaches his unmissable Beginners’ Royal Icing Course. This tutorial will cover everything from royal icing recipes, premixes, equipment used, the best piping nozzles/tips, colouring royal icing, which piping bags to use and how to make your own, to demonstrating run-out or flow work. This tutorial is packed full of tips, so grab a notepad before you hit play.

This is an often under appreciated aspect to cake decorating but getting nicely decorated boards really gives your cake a professional finish and edge on the competition – and it’s pretty easy when you know how!

Join Paul and David as they host an action packed show with highlight videos from:

French Lavender Wedding Cake– Paul Bradford

Starlite Wedding Cake – Alpa Boll

Army Helicopter – Paul Bradford

Parrot Tulips – Ashwini Sarabhai

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Join Paul and David as they host an action packed show with highlight videos from:

Antique French Wedding Cake – Paul Bradford

Pretty Porcelain – Penny Pany

Forget me Not – Paul Bradford

Modern Geometric Wedding Cake – Natalie Porter

To see the full tutorial or for Tools and Ingredients on all the featured tutorials, please click the links above.…

Join Paul and David as they host an action packed show with highlight videos from:

Wafer Paper Orchid – Paul Bradford

Hellebore Delight – Alyson Reynolds

Avalanche Rose – Ashwini Sarabhai

Frangipani – Arati Mirji

To see the full tutorial or for Tools and Ingredients on all the featured tutorials, please click the links above.…

Creating amazing sugar flowers is one of those things you might have thought would be too difficult…until now! Take our free course in basic sugar flowers and get the knowledge and confidence needed to start adding beautiful flowers to your cakes.

The perfect course for those wanting to make Easter a little more exciting and special, and of course yummy! This is a great course for beginners or to decorate along with the kids.

The Spider Cupcake is ideal for a quick Halloween treat. With it’s gooey red jam filling, it’s both delicious and just a little bit gory! With this tutorial, you’ll quickly learn how to create spooky additions to your Halloween party decorations.

This easy to make handbag cake is very striking and has been designed to be made quickly after a bit of practice. It’s a great design to learn and with the colours easily interchangeable it can be adapted for any taste.

It’s a great cake to start with as you will engage in a number of techniques used by cake decorators time after time like covering the cake, covering the board, stacking cakes, making easy decorations and applying the all important finishing touches.

A great cake in itself, but we use the Round Bow cake as our introduction to cake decorating. Here you´ll learn how to neatly cover a cake using ganache, adding sugarpaste decorations and introducing some of Paul´s effective finishing touches.

The Sugar Dog model tutorial is perfect for learning to make a variety of different dog breeds. The skills learnt can easily be adapted to allow for different thickness of coats, change in colour, size and features to create the perfect pup to add to a cake or cupcake.

Learn how to decorate cakes professionally – Pricing your cakes for a profit
In this free taster tutorial, David discusses with you all about pricing your cakes to make a profit.

Running your own cake decorating business can be one of the most satisfying things you can do. However, it’s important that you know your margins in order to turn your passion into a profit.
Serious about learning how to decorate cakes professionally?
We offer hundreds of tutorials dealing directly with teaching budding cake decorators how to make a success out of their business alongside over 800 hours worth of multi-award winning cake making tutorials. FIND OUT MORE!…

Learn how to make a tasty lemon and poppy seed cake…
Learn how to make a lemon poppy seed cake with Paul Bradford using his mum’s secret recipe. A beautiful tasting cake to add to your recipe book, this is a great tutorial to learn for any budding bakers!

In the following cake tutorial you will learn how to:

Bake with lemon and rind juice
Line and correctly fill baking tins
Test a bake
Make luxury lemon topping
and much, much more

Read why lemon cake is the nation’s favourite!

Don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Facebook group.

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All things bright and colourful… from colour theory, how to mix colours and how to use colour to make your cakes look amazing!…

Halloween Electric Guitar Cake Tutorial
Join the hugely talented and always entertaining Verusca Walker, making one of her trademark electric guitars. Versuca wanted to gift this tutorial to CakeFlix so everyone could enjoy her making this amazing guitar. This is a 30 minute tutorial with so much packed in and you get some added bloopers, just to show you that things don’t always go to plan. What a great chance to see one of the best in the industry!

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…

Build the guitar structure,
Carve and ganache the cake,
Make guitar features,
Add the strings to the guitar,
and much, much more!

Don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Facebook group.

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Ukraine themed Cake Tutorial
Join Paul in the Strathardle Lodge studio to make a special Ukraine themed cake in light of the current devastating events going on in the world right now.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…

Make an easy wafer paper sunflower
Cover a double barreled cake
Make neat vertical stripes
Make cute ribbon filler decorations
and much, much more!

Don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Facebook group.

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Cupcake Baking and Decorating Tutorial
In this tutorial, Paul Bradford gives you this Free Cupcake Baking and Decorating recipe and baking instructions. If you are looking to make some beautiful little cupcakes that are perfect for any occasion, then this tutorial will guide you through step by step. These cupcakes are very quick and easy to make and decorate, perfect for anyone starting out on their baking journey, but also delicious and firm to decorate for the more experienced baker and cake decorator.

Check out the full range of Baking tutorials which are among over 1,300 cake decorating and baking tutorials available on CakeFlix.…