Vegan Cake Decorating and Baking

Have you ever been curious about what goes into making vegan meringues? Or how to make the ideal gluten-free sponge that’s also delicious? Our vegan baking classes are a perfect introduction to gluten-free and vegan cake decorating and baking. If you’ve ever been unsure of how to construct the ultimate “free-from” sponge or meringues, then this is the class for you.

Cake should be enjoyed by one and all and being vegan or gluten-free shouldn’t stop you from enjoying these parcels of deliciousness. With this in mind, we’ve created the ideal vegan baking course, which is gluten-free and includes decorating. You will do everything under our expert guidance – from baking mouth-watering cakes that no one will know are ‘free from’ right down to layering and covering your goodies with buttercream and/or ganache.

In this five-day vegan cake decorating and baking course, the skills you will take away with you will include:

• Successfully baking vegan (egg and dairy-free) and gluten-free sponges that give fantastic results every time.

• Adapt your vegan and gluten-free sponges to create different flavour combinations.

• Working with both specialist and non-specialist ingredients to create different flavour combinations.

• Learning all the classic building blocks for free – from wedding and celebration cakes.

• Learning how to make vegan ganache and vegan buttercream (Swiss Meringue and American) different sponges and fillings, so that you can build a full ‘free – from’ repertoire.

• Get the best advice on top vegan ingredients to choose from.

• Learning the purpose of speciality products like aquafaba, xantham gum, flaxseeds etc and how to use them to get great results in your recipes.

• Advice on top vegan-friendly ingredients and brands (eg: food colours) and ingredients to be careful of.

• Learning how to create stylish modern vegan cake decorating ideas that look professionally finished and meet all of the ‘free-from’ criteria.

Recipes and techniques you will learn:

• Bake a decadent gluten-free chocolate sponge (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• Bake a vegan lemon and raspberry sponge (VG, NF, SF)

• Bake a vegan biscoff sponge (VG, NF, SF)

• Make vegan meringues (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• Vegan royal icing (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• American style crusting vegan and dairy-free buttercream (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• Vegan and dairy-free Swiss meringue buttercream (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• Vegan and dairy-free ganache (VG, GF, NF, SF)

• Getting sharp edges – another pre-requisite, this style is much in demand

• Making rice paper flowers

You will take home:

• 1 single-tier lemon and raspberry drip cake covered with vegan Swiss meringue buttercream, decorated with vegan meringues and buttercream piping.

• 1 two-tier cake, 100% edible, with a 7″ extended tier gluten-free chocolate sponge decorated in the ‘kintsugi’ style stonework finish and a 5″ vegan biscoff sponge decorated with a sugar sheet wrap finish. This will then be decorated with edible gold painting and finished with edible translucent rice paper flowers.

• All cakes are vegan recipes, some are gluten-free.

• You will also take home recipes for vanilla vegan, vanilla gluten-free, chocolate vegan, chocolate gluten-free and biscoff sponges.