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Building a Beautiful Cake Tier: Beginning With Buttercream

Learn all you need to know in order to build a perfect cake tier as your canvas for creating fantastic cakes, and learn fun techniques to add simple, edible decor to bring your cake from boring to exciting!
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Learn all you need to know in order to build a perfect cake tier as your canvas for creating fantastic cakes, and learn fun techniques to add simple, edible decor to bring your cake from boring to exciting! 

From tips and tricks needed to bake moist and delicious cake layers, making delicious and perfect buttercream and ganache from scratch, building a gorgeous tier free from bulging and sagging, as well as learning some basic piping techniques, adding ganache drip and some other fun simple techniques to add easy and fun decoration to make your cake awe inspiring and drool worthy!

  • Heating Core (only 1 heating core is needed for this course, though 2 of them are recommended)
  • 6” round x 3” deep cake pan (only one 6” round pan that is 3” deep is needed for this course, though 2 of them are recommended)
  • Electric Mixer (any electric mixer with standard beaters will do, though a stand mixer is recommended for ease of use)
  • Kitchen Scale (Any kitchen scale that includes weight in ounces and grams will do)
  • Wilton Cake Leveler
  • Wilton Angled Spatula (any size/brand will do)
  • Johnson Level & Tool (any level that can sit on top of a cake will do - also not required but recommended)
  • 2, 6.5” round cake acrylic discs
  • Tall Bench Scraper
  • 1, 6” round cake cardboard
  • 1, 10” round cake cardboard
  • Cake Turntable (not required but recommended)
  • Petal Icing Tip
  • Disposable piping bags
  • Sprinkles (optional)
  • Cherries (optional)
  • Macarons (optional)
  • Ice Cream Cone (optional)
  • All ingredients needed in Easy Meringue Buttercream Recipe
  • All ingredients needed in White Almond Sour Cream Recipe

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About Your Teacher

Shawna McGreevy

Shawna has been featured in several different magazines such as Cake Masters and American Cake Decorating Magazine and has been a featured artist at the Cake, Bake and Sweets Show, Australia and the Cake Fair in Florida. She’s also taught cake classes around the world, was nominated for the Cake Masters Cake Hero award and has been chosen as one of the top ten cake artists in the United States, 2017 by Cake Masters Magazine.

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