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Cake Baking Essentials: Chocolate in Cakes

Treat your sweet tooth and learn the art of working chocolate into cakes in this thorough class at NY Cake Academy. Discover a range of cocoa-based cakes and pick up essential techniques for handling chocolate ingredients. From silky custards to rich ganache frostings, take your baking abilities further and produce irresistible chocolate creations.

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  • 118 W 22nd St, New York, NY
  • 4 hours

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Class Description

Description

If you have a passion for chocolate, and realistically, who among us doesn't, you will find this comprehensive and detailed class on chocolate-based cakes to be perfectly suited to your interests and goals.

Discover how this remarkably versatile ingredient can be incorporated and utilized for countless applications, ranging from cake bases to smooth custards and luxurious ganache frostings, in this fourth installment of the five-part Cake Baking Essentials Certificate program, offered by NY Cake Academy's comprehensive Baking and Pastry Fundamentals curriculum. After an initial introduction on techniques for working with various forms of chocolate ingredients, you will learn the proper methods for preparing a stirred custard sauce known as créme anglaise and master the essential techniques required to craft a perfect ganache.

Our experienced and knowledgeable instructors will provide comprehensive guidance through all the techniques necessary for professional cake assembly, sharing valuable tips and tricks for constructing a roulade, also known as a jellyroll, and effectively working with sheet cakes. You will integrate all of the skills and techniques developed throughout this class to successfully complete two show-stopping desserts: a Chocolate Roulade filled with Chocolate Custard and a Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Ganache Frosting, from initial preparation through final presentation.

What You'll Develop Skills For:

  • Proper technique for working with various chocolate ingredients and forms in cake making
  • Preparing a smooth, stirred custard sauce, known as créme anglaise, with proper technique
  • Understanding ingredient functionality and how each component contributes to ganache structure and texture
  • Professional techniques for cake assembly, including specialized approaches for working with sheet cakes
  • Specialized techniques and insider tips for creating and assembling a roulade

What You'll Prepare and Taste:

  • Chocolate Roulade filled with Chocolate Custard
  • Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Ganache Frosting

All necessary supplies and materials are provided; classes are designed as hands-on, interactive learning experiences. Therefore, please dress appropriately for the kitchen environment. We recommend wearing casual, comfortable clothing that you are comfortable with, potentially getting a little flour or sugar residue on, and supportive, flat, comfortable shoes. Open-toed shoes and sandals are not recommended due to safety concerns when working in a kitchen setting. If you have long hair, please secure it back away from your face and work area.

School Notes: Please note, if you require a gluten free option for your baking class, you must alert the school in advance and there will be a +$15 fee applied for each gluten free substitute which will be collected directly by the school. Please contact them or CourseHorse to arrange this.

Refund Policy

Classes are not eligible for refunds, however classes are transferable.

  • Students may reschedule their class to an alternative date up to 4 business days prior to the class date for in-person classes.
  • All deposits & fees are forfeited for no shows.
  • We do not provide make-up classes.

The school reserve the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment up to 48 hours before the class date. The school reserve the right to change class schedules. If for any reason the school should cancel a class, a full refund will be offered to the student. However, we do not accept responsibility for any other expenses incurred such as hotel or airline cancellation penalties.

Cancellations or changes can be made through email at [email protected]. Please be sure to include the full name of the registered student, and class registration confirmation.

If a class is cancelled due to inclement weather, or other circumstance beyond our control (facility issues, power outages, etc.), we will contact you with as much advanced notice as possible by email or telephone, and issue you a refund to the original form of payment. We will make every effort to run the class as long as it is safe to do so. If we make the decision to run a class during inclement weather and you make the decision not to come, you will not be able to get a refund, we will offer only a credit for future use.

Credits are valid for a 12 month period of time.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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This class: 4.5 out of 5 from 2 reviews

  • Cake Baking Essentials: Chocolate in Cakes

    The instructor was good and it ignited the desire to learn to bake more. Thank you
  • Cake Baking Essentials: Chocolate in Cakes

    amazing. so fun and very helpful. can't wait to do another class
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NY Cake Academy, founded by renowned cake decorator Joan Mansour over 25 years ago, has evolved into a premier one-stop-shop in Manhattan for all baking needs. With a 5,000 square foot store, it offers a vast array of supplies, runs a cake decorating school, and is recognized for its excellence in the industry, earning accolades from ZAGAT and the New York Press.

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