The Ultimate Guide to Frostings from Udemy

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Learning objectives

Explore various types of frostings from simple glazes to cooked meringue buttercreams.
Learn how to weigh ingredients with a digital kitchen scale.
Practice hands-on techniques like kneading and folding.
Become creative with interesting flavor combinations.

Gain access to downloadable recipes and guides.
Learn a few basics of working with chocolate.
Understand how to properly handle and store frostings based on freshness and food safety.

Explore various types of frostings from simple glazes to cooked meringue buttercreams.
Learn how to weigh ingredients with a digital kitchen scale.
Practice hands-on techniques like kneading and folding.
Become creative with interesting flavor combinations.
Gain access to downloadable recipes and guides.
Learn a few basics of working with chocolate.
Understand how to properly handle and store frostings based on freshness and food safety.

Syllabus

Learn the simplicity of royal icing as well as what it's commonly used for.

Make a stable and long lasting royal icing, perfect for delicate piping.

Learn the traditional method of making royal icing.

Let's test what you've learned in this section.

Get ready to begin making frostings!

Thank you for enrolling!

Get prepared to make frostings! A basic list of tools required to complete all of the techniques in this course (.pdf download available).

A brief description on choosing ingredients suitable for use in frostings.

An introduction to the term Mise en Place and a description of its purpose.

Create simple and delicious glazes from scratch.

Glazes are simple and fast to create! Learn their fundamentals and storage.

The easiest frosting there is. Make a quick glaze in just a few minutes for a sweet topping on coffee or loaf cakes.

For a glossy finish on cookies and cakes, put together a simple shiny glaze.

Let's check your knowledge on this section.

Whip up perfect flavored and stabilized whipped creams.

Learn about different types of cream to give you the best topping. Also discover flavor possibilities and uses.

Just a quick description on identifying the stages of whipped peaks.

The techniques for a basic whipped cream perfect as a fresh topping on desserts.

Learn how to add gelatin to whipped cream, giving it a longer shelf life and the ability to be piped.

A quick quiz to test your knowledge.

Prepare royal icing correctly.

How to prepare chocolate and make various types of ganache.

Learn about the different types of chocolate and how they effect the final outcome, as well as the versatility of ganache.

Prepare a rich, dark chocolate ganache that is great as a smooth finish for cakes.

Explore creative combinations with milk chocolate. Beer is an interesting compliment and a great addition to party cakes.

Once you learn the basic ratios for preparing ganache, you can really begin to create your own recipes!

Turn any ganache into a fluffy frosting or filling!

Let's test your ganache knowledge.

Learn to create a wide variety of buttercream frostings.

A quick introduction to buttercream, including its ideal uses and general characteristics.

In this lesson you will learn what makes American Buttercream different from all of the others.

Learn how to make a sweet and smooth American Buttercream...so simple and delicious!

American Buttercream is so simple to flavor! Learn how to add cocoa and fruit flavor to really make your cakes interesting.

Crusting Buttercream is great when you need a snow white frosting or need a more stable cake topping.

Incredibly easy to make and very shelf stable, crusting buttercream is a must-have recipe.

Cream cheese frosting is a classic American favorite. Learn some important considerations for making this type of frosting.

In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare a basic cream cheese buttercream perfect for frosting and simple piped decorations.

Add delicious flavors and extra treats to this buttercream for decadent variations.

Start cooking with this Swiss Meringue Buttercream! This type has a unique silky texture that makes it a professional baker's favorite.

Learn how to pasteurize egg whites and whip up an incredibly tasty buttercream!

The meringue buttercreams are the most versatile when it comes to adding flavor. Get creative and don't be afraid to try something new!

An introduction to Italian Meringue Buttercream, the most stable of the butter-based frostings.

In this lesson you will learn how to make a sugar syrup and Italian meringue as a base for this fluffy buttercream.

This lesson demonstrates how to add melted chocolate to buttercream, using the Italian meringue buttercream as an example.

Let's test what you have learned in this large section on buttercream.

Learn how to prepare some nostalgic cooked frostings, perfect for party cakes.

Take a trip into the past with this section on fun and delicious old-timey cooked frostings!

This marshmallow fluff-like frosting is always a hit for birthday and dinner parties!

You already know how to make Swiss meringue buttercream, so this frosting will be a breeze!

Before red velvet cake was slathered with cream cheese frosting, Ermine was the star of the show.

Learn how to make a basic flour and milk custard as the foundation for this rich frosting.

An old fashioned, rich chocolate glaze made for coating sheet cakes or slab brownies.

This recipe is really simple to make and creates a beautiful, shiny chocolate coating.

Let's see what you know!

Sugar pastes are gaining popularity in the baking industry. Learn how to make them from scratch!

An introduction to this section on sugar pastes. Learn why you would need to know how to make them from scratch.

A classic paste with a distinctive almond flavor, use marzipan to make edible fruits or add a layer of flavor to your cakes.

Learn how to quickly and easily put together a batch of home-made marzipan.

Why buy modeling chocolate when it's so easy to make on your own? Learn how to use it and how to store it in this lesson.

Learn how to make white modeling chocolate in this lesson, which is great as a base for adding color.

Marshmallow fondant is yummy, easy to make, and inexpensive. This lesson goes over some key characteristics of rolled fondant.

This lesson will teach you how to knead just a few ingredients into a pliable dough.

Gum paste is wonderful to make intricate and delicate decorations for cakes, cupcakes, and other elaborate desserts.

Making gum paste from scratch is a breeze and you can store it for long periods of time. Make your own at home to keep around whenever you need it for a project.

Let's test your knowledge on the Sugar Paste section!

Conclusion

Thank you for enrolling in this course and I hope you gained a lot of knowledge from it!

This guide will give you all of the important information about frostings in one place.

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Covers a wide range of frostings, from simple glazes to more complex options like cooked meringue buttercreams, which allows learners to expand their baking repertoire

Includes recipes for download and print, alongside an Ultimate Frosting Guide, which provides learners with practical resources for immediate use

Teaches scaling, cooking sugar syrups, and melting chocolate, which are fundamental techniques applicable to a wide range of baking recipes

Explores the use of specialty ingredients available to home bakers, which encourages experimentation and creativity in the kitchen

Requires a digital kitchen scale, which may be an additional expense for some learners who are just starting out in baking

Includes quizzes to test knowledge, which helps learners assess their understanding and retention of the material

Activities

Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in The Ultimate Guide to Frostings with these activities:

Review Basic Baking Principles

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Reinforce your understanding of fundamental baking techniques and ingredient interactions to ensure a solid foundation for creating perfect frostings.

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Review common baking terms and definitions.
Practice basic mixing methods like creaming and folding.
Familiarize yourself with oven temperatures and baking times.

Read 'The Professional Pastry Chef'

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Expand your knowledge of pastry techniques and gain a deeper understanding of the science behind frostings.

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Read the chapters on buttercream, ganache, and royal icing.
Take notes on key techniques and ingredient ratios.
Try one of the recipes from the book.

Master Royal Icing Piping Techniques

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Refine your piping skills with royal icing to create intricate decorations for cakes and cookies.

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Prepare a batch of royal icing with the correct consistency.
Practice piping basic shapes like lines, dots, and swirls.
Attempt more complex designs like flowers and borders.
Watch online tutorials for inspiration and guidance.

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Create a Frosting Comparison Chart

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Synthesize your knowledge by creating a chart comparing different frosting types based on ingredients, texture, flavor, and uses.

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Choose 5-7 different frosting types from the course.
Research the ingredients, texture, flavor, and uses of each frosting.
Create a chart to compare the different frostings.
Share your chart with other students for feedback.

Document Your Frosting Experiments

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Solidify your understanding of different frosting types by documenting your experiments with recipes and flavor combinations.

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Choose a frosting recipe from the course.
Document the ingredients and steps you took.
Take photos of the process and the final product.
Write a short reflection on what you learned.

Design a Signature Cake with Custom Frosting

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Apply your knowledge of frostings to create a unique cake design with custom flavor combinations and decorations.

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Choose a cake flavor and a complementary frosting.
Develop a custom frosting recipe with unique flavorings.
Design the cake's decoration using various frosting techniques.
Bake the cake and prepare the frosting.
Assemble and decorate the cake.

Study 'Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft'

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Deepen your understanding of baking and pastry techniques to enhance your frosting skills.

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Read the sections on buttercream, ganache, and sugar pastes.
Experiment with different recipes and techniques.
Analyze the results and adjust your approach accordingly.

Career center

Learners who complete The Ultimate Guide to Frostings will develop knowledge and skills that may be useful to these careers:

Pastry Chef

A Pastry Chef creates a variety of baked goods, often focusing on desserts and pastries. This role requires a deep understanding of different frostings, fillings, and decorating techniques, which this course provides. The course covers a wide variety of frostings including glazes, whipped cream, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, cooked frostings, and sugar pastes. A pastry chef must know how to scale ingredients, work with chocolate, and understand flavor combinations, all skills covered in the course.

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Baker

Bakers create various baked goods, often focusing on breads, cakes, and other items. A strong understanding of frostings is essential to a baker's skill set, and this course offers a wide variety of recipes and techniques. The course addresses the proper way to handle and store frostings based on freshness and food safety, essential knowledge for a baker. Hands on techniques like kneading and folding make this course a good choice for a baker. This course will help the baker succeed with their frostings.

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Cake Decorator

A Cake Decorator specializes in the art of making cakes visually appealing. This role requires a thorough understanding of different types of frostings and their applications, which this course provides. The course covers a range of frostings, including royal icing for delicate piping, various buttercreams for smooth finishes, and sugar pastes for creating edible decorations. A cake decorator needs to be creative with flavor combinations, knowledge that this course will help them to acquire. Learning about peak stages and melting chocolate can help make them successful in this role.

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Food Stylist

A Food Stylist arranges food in an appealing way for photography or video. A strong grasp of how frostings look and behave is very important to a food stylist, and this course can help them develop these skills. The course provides techniques for creating visually appealing frostings including smooth ganache, piped royal icing, and various buttercreams. Skills such as scaling, working with chocolate and an understanding of flavor combinations that this course covers, make it suitable for a Food Stylist.

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Recipe Developer

A recipe developer creates new and innovative recipes. This role benefits from a strong understanding of different frostings and their flavor combinations. This course provides a substantial knowledge of frostings, including glazes, whipped cream, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, cooked frostings, and sugar pastes. It emphasizes creativity, flavor pairings, and the technical aspects of frosting preparation. These lessons may assist a recipe developer with this work.

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Catering Chef

A Catering Chef prepares food for events. This requires a broad understanding of many dessert components including frostings, which is why this course is appropriate. The course covers a wide variety of frostings that can be used in many dessert applications, including whipped cream, ganache, and different types of buttercream. The ability to scale ingredients, understand food safety, and properly handle and store frostings, as taught in this course, provides a solid foundation for a catering chef.

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Culinary Instructor

A Culinary Instructor teaches cooking techniques and recipes to students. This role requires a thorough understanding of a wide variety of techniques including the creation of frostings, and this course provides that. The course covers multiple types of frostings such as glazes, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, and sugar pastes. A culinary instructor must be able to explain cooking processes clearly, and learning about technical skills such as working with chocolate, peak stages, and kneading gives them a solid foundation to teach from.

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Food Blogger

A Food Blogger creates content about food, often including recipes and cooking tips. This position significantly benefits from a thorough understanding of how to make and work with frostings. This course covers a variety of frostings, from simple glazes to elaborate sugar pastes, and explores flavor combinations, an important component of food blogging. Learning about technique and the science of frostings as presented in this course may be useful to a food blogger.

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Personal Chef

A Personal Chef prepares meals for individual clients, often including desserts and custom treats. A personal Chef can benefit from the skills that this course offers as it teaches how to make a wide variety of frostings. The course includes recipes for glazes, whipped cream, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, cooked frostings, and sugar pastes. A personal chef must also have an understanding of flavor pairings and scaling, as well as proper handling and storage of frostings, which is covered in the course.

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Restaurant Chef

A Restaurant Chef manages a restaurant kitchen, overseeing all aspects of food production, potentially including desserts, that will benefit from the knowledge of frostings that this course offers. This course covers a variety of frostings, including royal icing, ganache, buttercream, and cooked frostings as well as techniques such as scaling, melting chocolate, peak stages and kneading. A Restaurant Chef who has a stronger foundation in this area of pastry is likely to be more successful.

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Food Product Developer

A food Product Developer creates new food products for manufacturers. A strong foundation in various kinds of frostings can be useful in this line of work, and is covered in this course. The course provides an exploration into glazes, whipped cream, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, cooked frostings, and sugar pastes. The ability to scale ingredients and understand flavor combinations, which this course provides, are very helpful in new product design.

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Event Planner

An Event Planner organizes and manages events. A familiarity with frostings can be useful for this role, especially for events with dessert components. This course provides a broad understanding of different frosting types, from simple glazes to intricate sugar pastes. The ability to understand what types of frostings work well for different purposes, along with the knowledge of how to store them, that this course provides can be very useful for an event planner.

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Dietitian

A Dietitian gives nutritional advice and creates meal plans. A basic understanding of frostings, their ingredients, and how they are made, which this course may provide, can help them offer more informed and well rounded advice. The course covers various frostings, including glazes, whipped cream, royal icing, ganache, buttercream, cooked frostings, and sugar pastes. A dietitian may find the technical information, such as ingredient scaling and proper handling, helpful.

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Home Economist

A Home Economist works with consumers to teach skills related to the home. This can encompass working with many different kinds of food, including desserts and frostings. This course explores a variety of frostings, as well as techniques like scaling, cooking a sugar syrup, peak stages, and melting chocolate. This gives a Home Economist more information and experience, and may assist them in their work.

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Quality Assurance Specialist

A Quality Assurance Specialist makes sure food products meet safety and quality standards. A broad familiarity with frostings may benefit someone in this role and this course may be useful to them. The course covers different types of frostings and proper handling and storage techniques. These lessons could assist a Quality Assurance Specialist in the workplace.

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