Become A Great Baker #4: Artistic Black Forest Cake Designs

Master the Black Forest Cake and learn how to transform it into a modern culinary creation using artistic decorations!

What you'll learn
Create many kinds of Black Forest Cakes, leveraging exciting, modern and intriguing designs and presentations.
Advance your baking career by learning a huge variety of important recipes and sophisticated decoration skills.
Customize the Black Forest Cake recipes to match various tastes.
Learn professional-level tips and tricks for assembling the Black Forest Cake.
Learn how to create sophisticated and elegant decorations, such as beautiful chocolate leaves.
Master one of the most important German cakes, and create unique culinary masterpieces.
Requirements
No previous baking or cake decoration experience is necessary.
Some basic baking utensils such as cake pans and a rolling pin are required.
Description
In this fun and exciting course you're going to master one of the wonders of German baking: the Black Forest Cake. You're going to learn everything there is to know about the classic recipes and presentation, and then take it to the next level with show-stopping artistic designs!Invented in 1934, the Black Forest Cake recipe and presentation are fairly traditional. Developed by award-winning pastry chef Irit Ishai, this course is your ultimate step-by-step guide to creating 3 amazing modern designs for this classic cake: a festive and elegant Holidays Design, a colorful and cheerful Birthday Design, and a clean and elegant Classic Design.In the course you’ll learn how to make all of the recipes and decorations from scratch using inexpensive tools and fairly simple techniques. Explore the best and most effective methods of making the traditional cake recipes, such as chocolate sponge cake, cherry compote, chocolate ganache and whipped cream filling. Discover secrets and tricks that will help you to assemble the layers of the cake inside a cake ring, just like professional bakers.Master the art of making sophisticated decorations such as artistic chocolate leaves, and use them to decorate your cakes and desserts. Create multiple elegant and modern presentations for this traditional cake, using the decorations you'll make and other edible elements!Along the way you'll learn many tips and tricks that are only discovered through many years of pro-level work. You'll also get an in-depth bonus tutorial about chocolate tempering (both manual and using tempering machines). Many of the recipes and techniques you'll master in this course are extremely useful, and you'll be able to leverage them while making other baking and pastry projects.Join me in this course, and I'll do my best to take you one step further in your journey to become a great baker!Irit IshaiFounder and InstructorCakeNuvo

Overview

Section 1: The Black Forest Cake - a German Culinary Marvel

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Before You Start

Section 2: Black Forest Cake Recipes

Lecture 3 Chocolate Sponge Cake - Introduction

Lecture 4 Making Chocolate Sponge Cake

Lecture 5 Cherry Filling - Introduction

Lecture 6 Making Cherry Filling

Lecture 7 Whipped Cream Filling - Introduction

Lecture 8 Making Whipped Cream Filling

Lecture 9 Chocolate Ganache - Introduction

Lecture 10 Making Chocolate Ganache

Section 3: Assembling the Black Forest Cake

Lecture 11 Assembling the Cake - Introduction

Lecture 12 Assembling the Cake - Demonstration

Section 4: Making Chocolate Leaves

Lecture 13 Making Chocolate Leaves - Introduction

Lecture 14 Making Chocolate Leaves - Demonstration

Section 5: Creating the Birthday Design for the Black Forest Cake

Lecture 15 Black Forest Birthday Design - Introduction

Lecture 16 Unmolding, Frosting and Smoothing

Lecture 17 Covering the Sides with Sprinkles

Lecture 18 Piping Rosettes

Lecture 19 Finishing Touches

Section 6: Creating the Holiday Design for the Black Forest Cake

Lecture 20 Black Forest Holiday Design – Introduction

Lecture 21 Unmolding, Frosting and Smoothing

Lecture 22 Creating a Strip Pattern on the Side of the Cake

Lecture 23 Decorating with Chocolate Leaves

Lecture 24 Finishing Touches

Section 7: Creating the Classic Design for the Black Forest Cake

Lecture 25 Classic Black Forest Design – Introduction

Lecture 26 Unmolding and Frosting

Lecture 27 Wrapping the Cake with a Chocolate Ring

Lecture 28 Making Whipped Cream for the Top

Lecture 29 Piping Shell Borders

Lecture 30 Spreading Cherry Compote on the cake's top

Lecture 31 Adding a Ribbon with a Fancy Bow

Section 8: BONUS - The Complete Guide to Chocolate Tempering

Lecture 32 Introduction to Chocolate Tempering

Lecture 33 Manual Chocolate Tempering

Lecture 34 Using Tempering Machines

Section 9: Wrapping Up!

Lecture 35 Course Summary

Section 10: Course Materials

Lecture 36 Downloadable Recipe Books and Course Materials

Section 11: Next Steps and Bonus

Lecture 37 Bonus Materials

Anyone interested in a serious baking and cake decoration career.,Beginner bakers who want to bake amazing Black Forest Cakes.,Intermediate bakers who want to learn important recipes and sophisticated decoration skills.,Bakery and pastry shop owners who want to add fantastic cakes and personal desserts to their offering.,Professional pastry chefs who want to add sophisticated plated desserts to their menus.,Anyone who loves the Black Forest Cake and would like to be able to make it at home.