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Introducing our membership program, Level-UP. One brand new, modern cake decorating course per month to help you take your game from competent cake maker to trendsetter.
The key isn’t knowing how to do 10 different things. It’s knowing how to achieve 10 different things from doing ONE thing.
This isn’t about YOU being versatile. It’s not about requiring YOU to be able to adapt to many different functions or activities.
It’s the other way around.
This is about the versatility of your cake recipes and processes. It’s about having ONE recipe that can be adapted for many situations and requirements.
Build a baking system that does the heavy lifting so you don’t have to, today!
The vanilla cake recipe uses butter, but the chocolate cake uses oil and the red velvet cake requires buttermilk. Don’t even get started on the cupcake recipes. There are way too many processes and methods to learn and master, you just cannot keep up! Everything just takes way too long..
You have to stock every ingredient under the sun just to make a few different flavours. Butter, oil, buttermilk, cocoa, white sugar, brown sugar, milk etc, they all add up. Oh, it’s not just the money. It’s the storage space too! Your pantry is bursting at the seams and it’s driving you mad..
When someone asks ‘what do your cakes taste like?’, you freeze because the answer involves relaying a full essay. ‘Well, the chocolate cake tastes like a mud cake and the vanilla is lighter, like a sponge…’
Having too many different recipes mean you can’t properly plan, bake, maintain quality and & set consistent expectations for your clients..
A comprehensive online course that helps you streamline your baking system in order to produce consistent results, every single time.
Baking is a science, and you cannot master it unless you possess the fundamental knowledge of how that science works.
You’ll learn everything you need to know about the different styles of cakes, the role of each ingredient, the baking process, the role of heat as well as kitchen management and more.
There’s a reason for everything we do at DTC and the reason is always efficiency.
You’ll come out of this with an in-depth understanding of our extremely efficient baking system, sizing and serving system and more. These systems will help you cut your time in the kitchen in half and double your result at every stage in the baking process.
You’ll get access to our famous DTC Vanilla Cake recipe as well as 15+ other flavour variation recipes and flavour pairing recommendations.
You’ll also equip yourself with easy to follow guidelines that will help you develop your own flavours.
Hear what our students say
Highly recommend this course for anyone in the cake industry. I’ve been baking for a number of years vegan cakes and when I wanted to extend my business. To traditional cakes this was my first choice to learn f rom. Easy recipes, minimal ingredients and maximum flavour! So much positive feedback from customers.
I debated on buying this course for months. Previously, I had different recipes for every cake flavour – sometimes they had four layers, sometimes more, sometimes they were thick and other times they were thinner. This has everything you need – I certainly do not miss spending hours and hours online trying to find answers to my questions. I have everything I need in one place…as well as peace of mind that I can do what I need to. Oh and these recipes are second to none when it comes to taste – will never look back! The caramel is life changing!!!
Please with every penny I’ve invested in this course…along with the buttercream cake mastery, I finally took the reigns of my business and started structuring (processes and cakes of course), making progress and money, all while delighting customers with these delicious (and efficient) cake recipes.
If like me you were hesitant about spending money on what I thought were just cake recipes, listen to me now; this course is so much more than cake recipes and so so so worth it!
I have loved learning about the science behind how to make the perfect recipe, whilst also experimenting with the master flavour chart. I am so happy I took the leap and brought this course! I now have three paying orders for event cakes and I have only been open for 2 weeks.
Also something great to note is the density of the cakes make them perfect for buttercream decoration (see the photo- the smooth finish was achieved within 10 minutes). Honestly just amazing! And every flavour has the same density, I love this consistency , the mark of a true professional. This course gave me the confidence to trust myself and dive in! Tha
The course was incredibly easy to follow, and the results were nothing short of amazing.
Thao had a knack for explaining complex concepts in a simple and concise manner, making the course accessible to bakers of all skill levels, especially for me as a beginner.
It has definitely built up my confidence and makes me constantly want to bake cakes!
This course is incredibly amazing! It helped me optimize my time and my energy !
By following simple steps and using simple ingredients this course boosted my confidence !
It is perfectly tailored to help every new baker !
Can not recommend The Versatile Baker course enough !!
15+ flavour variations included and a guideline to help you create more.
Cakes, cupcakes, baked donuts, donut ganache glazes, simple syrups & fillings recipes.
Gluten-free, egg-free, lactose-free and dairy-free substitutions.
I’m Thao, the founder of Don’t Tell Charles and your course instructor. My passion is to help aspiring cake makers achieve success by working smarter, not harder.
I started my cake making journey as a home baker back in 2012. In my 10 years as a modern cake designer, I’ve been through it all. I’ve done the hard slog, wasted years making mistakes (and learnt heaps from them), so I know what you’re going through and how it feels. I’m here to shorten the journey for you, to give you tried and true, expert advice you can trust.
It’s the reason why I created this course, and continue to improve and update its content. The recipes and system herein have been tested for over ten years, and have been proven by hundreds of our students to dramatically cut down the time spent testing, planning and baking. This also means an increase in enjoyment before, during and after the baking process.
I know taking the first step is always the hardest, but I also know that you can do it. I’m rooting for you!
To your cake making success.
Whether you own a cake business or are a hobby baker who makes cakes for friends and family, this course will completely change your baking life for the better. Higher efficiency in a business means better productivity and increased profits. And higher efficiency in general? It means less time mucking about, stressing, second guessing and more time for fulfilling things like growing your skillset.
The course contains video, presentation and written materials that have been thoroughly prepared for you to be able to consume in your own time. There is no live aspect to the course except the support. As in, when you ask a question in the course or in the FB group, you’ll get an answer from Thao and other fellow students in real time.
You can enroll now to take advantage of the limited time offer and start the course whenever you’re ready. It is a self-paced course, which means you can go through it at a pace that suits YOU. The plus side is, it doesn’t matter when you do the course, your access to support is there when you need it.
DTC cakes are similar in texture to butter or pound cakes, somewhere in the middle between a sponge and a mud cake. They are not too heavily dense nor too light, a perfect structure to team with buttercream.
At DTC, nothing is just a recipe. Vanilla cake recipes are aplenty on the Internet. What makes ours special is the fact that it forms the basis for a whole entire baking system. If the vanilla cake on its own is a 10, the whole DTC baking system is a 100. Everything we teach form a cohesive system that are designed to give you ‘long term’ success. For this reason, the DTC Vanilla Cake isn’t available as a standalone recipe.
However, if you would like to try one of our cake recipes, check out The Perfect Chocolate Cake.
DTC cakes have amazing structure, and are not only perfect with buttercream. They are also great with ganache, for carving or with fondant covers.
The cupcake and baked donut recipes use the same core ingredients and method, just different oven settings and baking temperature. We did say maximum efficiency guaranteed!
The vanilla cake recipe is the same in both courses. However, The Versatile Baker goes into much more depth about the recipe itself in terms of purpose, adaptability and flavour making system. Think of Buttercream Cake Mastery as your one stop shop to learn about how to make a modern buttercream cake from start to finish and The Versatile Baker as a more specialised study about baking and flavour making.
Buttercream Cake Mastery helps you build the right modern buttercream cake making foundation. It is an A-Z course that covers baking as one of its modules (DTC vanilla cake recipe included). However, The Versatile Baker goes into a lot more depth regarding the science behind the baking process and the DTC baking system. The only overlapping information between the two courses are the DTC Vanilla Cake recipe and some basic baking knowledge.
For a comprehensive comparison of the two courses, click here.
The Versatile Baker is essentially the Vanilla Bundle and the Chocolate Red Velvet Bundle together. Check your Vanilla Cake Bundle course material in Teachable for a special discount.
Our team has worked extremely hard to ensure that the content included in this course is as detailed and beneficial to as many people as possible. However, we do understand that everyone’s learning style is different. This is why we offer a 7 Day Money Back Guarantee. You can take a look around the course, check out our PDFs and videos to familiarise yourself with our teaching method. If you decide that this course isn’t for you, just send us an email within 7 days of purchasing the course. We will ask you to complete a short questionnaire and then process your refund. Simple as that!
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For the first 4 months of 2020, we donated $17,000 AUD to organisations that helped, and continue to help, those affected by the devastating bushfires that ravaged Australia:
Foodbank NSW – $4316
Wildlife Victoria – $4317
Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal – $4316
National Bushfire Disaster Appeal – $2025
Vets for Compassion – $450
Foodbank Victoria – $1575
Between May 2020 and August 2021, we donated all proceeds to Foodbank Victoria who are doing incredible work to help with the COVID-19 Food Crisis. To date (end of August 2021) we have donated a total of $7251.00 to Foodbank Victoria.
You can read more about the amazing work they’re doing here: Foodbank Victoria.
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From October 2021, all donations will be made to Impact For Women, who are making a difference for women and children escaping extreme violence at home.
Impact For Women – $1587.55
Vinnies Flood Appeal – $777
Foodbank QLD – $663
Foodbank Victoria – $975