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Home Baking for Beginners: Cakes, Biscuits, Scones and Traybakes

Home Baking for Beginners: Cakes, Biscuits, Scones and Traybakes

Bake sponges, cupcakes, scones, biscuits and traybakes from scratch with 37 original recipes, fix what goes wrong and plan a bake sale. 50 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.

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Expiry period	Lifetime
Made in	English
Last updated at	Mon Nov 2026
Level	Beginner
Total lectures	60
Total quizzes	10
Total duration	10:52:00 Hours
Total enrolment	0
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Short description	Bake sponges, cupcakes, scones, biscuits and traybakes from scratch with 37 original recipes, fix what goes wrong and plan a bake sale. 50 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.
Outcomes	Get to know your oven, line tins and weigh ingredients accurately on digital scales Understand what flour, raising agents, fats, sugars and eggs do in a bake Use the creaming, all-in-one, rubbing-in, melting and whisking methods with confidence Bake a classic sandwich sponge, flavoured sponges and loaf cakes, and tell when a cake is baked Make even cupcakes, tall muffins and scones that rise straight, and serve a cream tea Bake rolled biscuits, shortbread, chewy cookies, oat biscuits and ginger biscuits Make traybakes, fudgy brownies, flapjacks, no-bake bars and caramel shortbread, and cut neat portions Finish bakes with buttercream, glacé icing, cream cheese frosting, ganache and simple decorations Adapt bakes for gluten-free, egg-free and dairy-free diets, scale recipes and store and freeze your bakes Troubleshoot common problems, label allergens and plan, cost and bake for a bake sale or afternoon tea
Requirements	No baking experience needed; the course starts with your oven, your tins and weighing ingredients An oven, digital kitchen scales, measuring spoons, a mixing bowl, a few tins and an electric hand whisk or a wooden spoon An oven thermometer is useful but not essential, and Section 1 explains the kit you need and what can wait A way to print the PDF recipe cards and worksheets is useful but not essential