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Baking and Desserts for Beginners

Online
5-6 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn useful methods and simple techniques to make desserts and baked goods in this free online cooking course. Desserts and baked goods - like cakes, biscuits and breads - are a vast category of dishes. This course will help beginners understand the fundamental techniques and methods for baking, and preparing desserts. Learn how pastry should be prepared and how vital fermentation is for baking with yeast. Study how ingredients like dairy, chocolate and sugar can be combined successfully and learn to break down simple baking and dessert recipes.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID188919
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration5-6 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• Describe the difference between classic and rough puff pastry
• Explain the correct method of turning and folding puff pastry
• Classify hot and cold desserts
• Identify the three main ways by which gelatin strength is measured
• Understand and recreate recipes for different desserts
• Relate how and when fermentation occurs
• List the uses of yeast in a kitchen
Course Code2907

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