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How to Make Butter Cakes

An online course you can follow at your own pace, from your own kitchen.

Golden butter cake dusted with sugar in a metal baking tin

About this course

Discover the secrets of light, tender butter cakes. We compare the creaming and reverse creaming methods, so you know exactly which one to use for layer cakes, loaf cakes and cupcakes.

What you'll learn

  • Choosing butter, flour and sugar

  • The classic creaming method

  • The reverse creaming method

  • Baking evenly and testing doneness

Lessons in this course

  1. What makes a butter cake

    The science of a tender crumb.

  2. The creaming method

    Beating butter and sugar for a light cake.

  3. The reverse creaming method

    A fine, velvety crumb every time.

From one of my students

I use the butter cake recipe in my café every week. Customers keep asking for it.
Wael Nassar Café owner, Zarqa

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