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Indulge your Inner Baker: Take a Cake Baking Class
It's the sweetest job you can imagine: a cake baking job. Whether you're working from home, in a bakery, or for a caterer, you could be creating beautiful, edible works of art. As a professional baker, you get to have all the fun of baking without having to eat the results.
Bake a Cake - But Then What?
Some of us simply love to bake. We take baking classes. We read cookbooks from cover to cover. We try different flours, salts, and sugars. We buy cookbooks on specific topics: baking for feasts, celebration cookbooks, and chocolate cakes. We stare at the pictures and realize two things: first, it's never going to look at beautiful as it does in the picture. Secondly, who's going to eat this?
What Can You Learn in Cake Baking Class?
If you really want to learn to create beautiful cakes, you're going to have to experiment. And if you and your family eat the results from every experiment, you're going to be sorry. If you take all the results (successes and failures, both) to work, your co-workers will love and hate you at the same time.
Of course, you could take a cake baking class. In a cake baking class you'll learn:
- how to combine ingredients
- how to keep cakes from falling flat
- varieties of cakes, including butter, sponge cake, pound, and angel food cakes
- decorating like a professional
If your cake baking class sparks your interest, you may well find yourself able to take all your results to work. Because cake baking might become your work. You could get a baking job, whether you set up a home business and create specialty cakes for children's birthday parties and corporate gatherings, or work for a bakery. You might work in a four-star restaurant, or on a cruise ship, or for the supermarket down the street that does custom cake orders. Wherever you end up, if the cake baking class you take leads you to a career in baking, it's a sweet deal.
Sources
The Institute of Culinary Education - pastry and baking classes
King Arthur Flour Baking Classes
About the Author
Emily Kerr is a freelance writer who loves to bake. When she's not writing about food, she's generally eating it.
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