FREE Online Cake Decorating Videos by PAUL BRADFORD

In this post on my blog I wanted to bring to your attention these awesome free online cake decorating videos by Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School. These videos are completely free and you can access them online 24/7 forever. You can find the online school here:

http://www.designer-cakes.com/

The beauty of these videos is that they are perfect not only for beginner but for everyone. They cover basic techniques and much more.  To access the videos you have to sign up and become member which is completely FREE. Later on if you decide you would like to learn more and advance your knowledge then you can upgrade your membership either to Monthly , Annual or Pro

The free section starts with USING GANACHE. We all know how essential and important ganache is nowadays. To achieve beautiful finish and those gorgeous sharp edges the ganache is necessity. Paul walks you through making of all 3 types of ganache: dark, milk, white chocolate. He shows you how to ganache round and square cake as well as how to store, re-heat and how to solve common problems. This is the breakdown for this chapter:

1.  Overview 
2.  Introduction to ganache
3.  Making Milk Chocolate Ganache
4.  Making White Chocolate Ganache
5.  Making Dark Chocolate Ganache
6.  Differences between types of ganache
7.  Reheating Ganache
8.  Prepearing a Cake to be Transfered
9. Carving Cakes – Cutting a round and square cake in half
10.  Ganaching the centre of a cake
11.  Ganaching the side of a round cake
12.  Ganaching the top of a round cake
13.  Using a pastry brush on a round cake
14.  Ganaching the centre Square of a cake
15.  Ganaching the sides of a square cake
16.  Ganaching the top of a square cake
17.   Using a pastry brush on a square cake
18.   Sticking Bits Back On
19.   Storing Ganache
20.   Solving Common Problems

These are the other lessons and each lesson is broken down to small chapters which makes browsing through them really easy:

• Paul’s moist chocolate cake recipe 
• Tools
• Icing Boards
• Icing Cakes –
  1.  Overview
  2.  Background Info
  3.  About Sugarpaste
  4.  Prepearing Sugarpaste for Rolling Out
  5.  Rolling out  Sugarpaste
  6.  Icing a Round Cake
  7.  Icing a Square Cake with Pannels
  8.  Icing a Square Cake
  9.  Icing a Round Cake Wrapping Around
  10.  Fixing Common Problems
• Stacking Cakes – here you can see how to stack 3 tier round and square cakes ; How to clean up the ganache and how to deal with common problems
• Basic Sugarpaste Skills – Paul shows you how to make ball, cone and sausage shapes which is the fundamental to any sugarpaste models
• Common Decorations – Covers all these below:
  1. Box lid 
  2. Stripes
  3.  Polka Dots
  4.  How to make a polka dot bow
  5.  Adding a Ribbon
  6.  Glaze Spray and Dusts
  7.  Glitter Balls
  8.  How to Make a Rose
  9.  Using a Stencil
  10. Using Cutters
  11. Using Molds
• Basic  Flowers -broken down to the following videos:
  1. Overview
  2. Introduction
  3.  Making Petals
  4. Taping the Petals
  5.  Creating the Centre
  6.  Putting the Flower Together
  7.  Dusting a Flower
  8.  Adding the Flower to the Cake
• Using Buttercream

The Series of videos finishes with two complete projects which are:

• Polka Dot Wedding Cake – this chapter contains 23 videos of how to make this gorgeous cake
• Polka dot handbag cake

And if you decide to upgrade you can watch Paul making fantastic cakes from beginning to end and  amazing guest sugar artists such as Faye Cahill, Brenda Walton (Sugar high), Rudi Martines (Man  Bakes Cake),  Shawna McGreevy ( Mcgreevy Cakes) , Mayen of ‘Way Beyond Cakes and much much more.

My Final words would be: this is amazing collection of free cake decorating videos and worth signing up. As a self taught cake decorator I found them very useful to fill in the gaps in my knowledge and who better to learn them from other than Paul Bradford?! xx

ps: Almost forgot to say that Paul also teaches and you can find more information about his classes here: http://www.designer-cakes.com/cakedecoratingcourses

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