Cake Decorating Course

Our London school houses dedicated bakery and pâtisserie kitchens featuring professional equipment such as induction hobs, market leading mixers and caesarstone work surfaces.

In this specialist pastry programme, you will learn decoration, design and production by focusing on:

• celebration cakes
• wedding cake assembly
• stacked and shaped cakes
• cupcakes
• flavour profiles
• filling, coating and masking
• icing textures and techniques
• gum paste flower decorations
• chocolate work as decoration

You will also receive our dedicated Cake Decorating course manual containing:

• course overview and introduction
• cake, filling, and decoration recipes
• step-by-step guide to tempering chocolate
• overview of decoration techniques with visual descriptions
• piping border and writing templates

As a participant of Le Cordon Bleu London’s Cake Decorating course, you are supplied with all the ingredients and equipment needed during each session, and everything you create is yours to take home at the end of the day.

We welcome students from a variety of different educational and occupational backgrounds. No prior culinary experience is required.

This programme is suitable if:

• You are a professional chef or entrepreneur and wish to master one of the most fundamental pâtisserie techniques to set up your own cake decorating business
• You are a passionate pastry amateur and you want to learn the right techniques
• You wish to enhance your pâtisserie skills