What you'll be able to do
- Bake a chocolate ganache cake from scratch, start to finish
- Prepare and fill a tin so the cake rises evenly
- Make a ganache with the right consistency to coat and smooth
- Know when a cake is done, without guessing
- Bake a fruit cake as a second recipe
Baking it to sell
Cost per cake, worked through
Ingredients priced so you know what a cake costs you before you quote.
Birthdays, festivals and orders
The occasions that make a home baker's calendar.
Start with people who already know you
Society groups and WhatsApp are the first orders, every time.
Everything inside this course
Module 0 · Ingredients & Setup 3 Lessons · 4 min
Ingredients for the Chocolate Ganache Cake
01:51
Preparing the Cake Tin
01:03
How to Fill the Cake Tin for Baking
01:01
Module 1 · The Batter 3 Lessons · 7 min
Sifting the Flour & Sugar
02:33
Building the Batter
01:47
Mixing & the Final Batter
02:30
Module 2 · The Bake 1 Lesson · 1 min
Baking & the Toothpick Test
00:40
Module 3 · The Ganache & the Finish 3 Lessons · 4 min
Making the Chocolate Ganache
01:15
Finishing the Ganache
01:08
Coating & Smoothing the Cake
01:20
Module 4 · Bonus Recipe · Fruit Cake 1 Lesson · 6 min
How to Make a Fruit Cake
05:55
Bonus · The Professional Cake Making Guide (PDF) 1 Lesson · 1 min
Professional Cake Making Course Guide — English + Hindi
00:00
What you will be able to bake
Who this is for
Home bakers
Go from following a recipe to understanding why each step is there.
Students and side-hustlers
Birthday cakes are the easiest first order to win.
Tiffin and catering services
Add a dessert line to what you already deliver.
Complete beginners
Nothing here assumes you have baked before.
Finishing and presentation
Coating and smoothing
The finish that separates a home cake from one somebody pays for.
Getting the ganache right
Consistency is what decides whether it coats smoothly or slides off.
Presenting a cake to sell
How to box and carry one so it arrives the way it left.
Everything you need to start
From your own kitchen
A tin, a sieve, a mixing bowl and an oven.
Ingredients from the local market
Flour, sugar, chocolate and cream — nothing specialist.
Filmed one step at a time
Every stage is its own lesson, so you can bake along as you watch.
Meet your instructor
Simpi Rathi
Your instructor
Simpi bakes the chocolate ganache cakes Cake Shala teaches — in a home kitchen, with home equipment, at prices a home baker can actually charge. She teaches the batter-to-finish routine that survives a real order, not a photoshoot.
