On-demand cake decorating courses and coaching that helps you
Create Cakes You'll Be Proud To Share
Learn proven, time-saving frameworks you can use to share your creativity with the world.
BUTTERCREAM CAKE SCHOOL
You want to learn how to express your
creativity through cakes but, you..
- Fear that you'll risk looking like a ‘foolish beginner’.
- Feel intimidated about being judged, eg: passing vs failing.
- Suffer from commitment phobia, as you're 'too busy'.
- Doubt your ability to learn on your own, especially online.
We understand how that feels..
Everyone deserves to learn
on their own terms
Control How You Learn
Start whenever, learn in your own time & at your own pace.
Lifetime Access
Get access to course materials for
LIFE! Yes, no time restrictions here.
Lifetime Support
Receive ongoing support from instructor & our student community. You’ll never be alone!
Your path to cake making success
is as easy as..
01
Build the right
cake making
foundation
Master the arts of modern buttercream cakes without wasting years making avoidable mistakes.
02
Streamline
your baking
system
Build a baking system that allows you to achieve consistently amazing results with half the effort.
03
Develop your own signature style
Take your cake game from competent cake maker to trendsetter.
Our Promise
to you..
We promise you will never be alone in your learning journey.
We’ll be there to hold your hands, to guide you through setbacks and to
celebrate your every win.
FREE MASTERCLASS
The 4 Step Framework To
Become A Successful
Buttercream Cake Artist
Students'
Words
My biggest take away from Thao was from being with her in person. I learnt that she broke all the rules of the time in making the style her own. I like that DTC still brings that message through in the online workshops and forums. It’s not about creating offerings that copy and paste DTC. Instead, the workshops create the space for us to learn the basics so we waste less time making mistakes. What we do with it after is completely up to us.
For me, it’s given me the confidence to experiment. Take what I know in principle and overlay my creative eye.
The tips and detailed information provide you with a strong foundation in which you can adapt and tweak to your liking. My work looks so much more refined and elevated. It gives me the confidence to try new things and experiment because I have a strong foundation.
I am so glad I found these courses early on; it would be such a shame to do this for years and realize there could have been a better way. I am so grateful!
I love that the online course is one I can continually look back on, re-watch the videos and check in on myself that what I’m doing is resulting in the best and cleanest outcome. Further to that, some of the shorter online courses have been invaluable in learning safe and correct techniques without wastage to make isomalt sails, to temper chocolate or to expand the flavours I offer my clients. Not to mention the confidence to experiment with different flavours and combinations.
I don’t think I can articulate the amount of help Thao’s courses have given me, her advice is so detailed and precise. It allowed me to refine my skills so much faster than if I’d just learned from trial and error, YouTube etc. I’m also a perfectionist so it was less frustrating when things went wrong because Thao’s course had so many helpful tips and things to try. I knew I could keep adapting and improving my skills. I love all the recipes and use many of them every week in my business.
All DTC courses have provided fantastic methods and recipes which I have been able to harness and adapt to best suit the needs of my business. The entire DTC system and its philosophy; to focus on "maintaining quality while maximising efficiency", really is what people in the modern cake-making world desperately need.
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Hey there,
I'm Thao!
I’m 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.
ACDN Best Teacher Award (Australian Cake Decorating Network)
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Physical cake decorating workshops conducted
Judge on The Cake Professionals Awards UK
Judge on Melbourne’s Great Architectural Baking Competition
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Students served, worldwide
Creator of the Concrete Cake
Student
Spotlights
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stories
Jen Lee
Hi, I’m Jen and I love to bake cakes that delight my friends and family and engage all five senses. My dream is to someday publish a cookbook in which I detail a representative cake recipe for each of the 50 United States – hence my Instagram handle, @missunitedcakes.
Kat Medrzejewski
Hi, I’m Kat. I started Halo & Horns as a side hustle in 2019 alongside full-time teaching. My business is something I am continually working towards growing, so I currently balance the business with a part-time primary teaching role.
Morgan Collins
Hi, I’m Morgan. Cake design has my heart, it is my happy place, my comfort, my soothing activity. While for me it is a side hustle/hobby at the moment, one day soon I plan on really taking my little cake business to the next level.
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