Learn How to Bake Afternoon Tea with BBC Good Food

Offered By: BBC Good Food via FutureLearn

Course Description

Overview

Discover how to bake the perfect afternoon tea with tasty and simple recipes

Over the last five years, afternoon tea, the quintessentially British meal, has become increasingly popular to enjoy out or serve at home.

This course offers five delicious recipes for you to try each week to help you create your own ideal afternoon tea.

You’ll discover how to bake scones, sugar biscuits, madeleines, eclairs, and macarons – classic tea treats sure to leave friends and family wanting more!

Boost your baking techniques and improve your recipes

The course will help you explore recipe ideas for the bakes you love – and help you to explain why each one works.

You’ll learn what to look for in ingredients, and how to start exploring bold new flavours to really bring your afternoon tea bakes to life.

Once you’re comfortable with the essentials, you’ll see how you can vary your ideas and make your bakes even better.

Learn through interactive cooking sessions

You’ll pinpoint how you could become a better cook, by learning to annotate and improve recipes – as well as reflect on the inevitable odd failed bake!

Learn how to decorate your afternoon tea bakes, and get the inside track on exactly what bakeware and kitchen kit you need to bring your biscuits, buns, and bites to life.

An important part of baking is the culture around it. With interactive and animated online lessons, you’ll also examine the role that baking plays in everyday life.

Get baking tips and tricks from the experts at BBC Good Food

BBC Good Food have been the number one destination for budding cooks and bakers for 30 years.

Now you can learn how to hone your afternoon tea ideas with their expert baking teachers – creating innovative recipes, and becoming a better baker in the process.

This course is designed for beginner to intermediate bakers.

Whether you want to learn how baking works so you can be more experimental with your bakes, you’re looking to avoid unhealthy bakes and want to bake from scratch with family, you’re interested in becoming a baking hobbyist, or you’re an experienced baker and want to add new abilities – this course has something for you.

Syllabus

Introduction and scones

Introduction to afternoon tea
Kitchen kit, terminology and ingredients
Scones: Recipe know-how
What's next?

Beautiful biscuits

All about biscuits
Kitchen kit and ingredients
Recipe know-how
Decorating and flavouring
What's next?

Choux pastry and éclairs

Choux pastry and éclairs
Kitchen kit and ingredients
Recipe know-how
What's next?

Madeleines

All about madeleines
Kitchen kit
Know your ingredients
Recipe know-how
What's next?

Macarons

Macaron week
Kitchen kit and ingredients
Recipe know-how
Making macarons step-by-step
Fillings, flavours and decorations

Taught by

Liberty Mendez