Begin your journey to professional cake artistry
Elevate your cake skills like the pros and create stunning baked masterpieces to grow a profitable cake career from home.
Join the WaitlistIf you're a home baker, hobbyist or aspiring cake artist..
Who wants to create impressive sweet concoctions for your friends and family ~ Hello emerging baker!
Who wants to create income from your cake hobby that you love ~ Hello side hustler!
Who wants to grow your business and attract high-paying clients ~ Hello full-time cake designer!
You're in the right place...
Join the 'Cake Insider Academy'
The Cake Education + Community membership that helps bakers become standout cake designers through Modern Cake Decorating Skills and Business know-how.
Join the WaitlistWhat is the Cake Insider Academy?
This membership programme features a game-changing 5-stage framework to equip those who want to learn how to create professional-level cakes, become a recognised cake designer and grow a sustainable career as a creative baker.
- Learn insider pro techniques to baking, constructing and stacking cakes with flawless and precise finishes
- Elevate your designs with contemporary and in-demand decorative techniques
- Start, grow and optimise your cake business so its profitable and sustainable
Our Cake Insiders are Living Out Their Cake Dreams
Booked Out Calendar of Cake Orders
Lizzie went from being unemployed to building a booked-out home-based cake business in Boston. She now has 2 staff to keep up with her massive 8-15 weekly orders.
@lizzies_bakery
High-end Wedding Cake Designer
Kinda from the Netherlands turned her hobby into a designer cake business creating spectacular multi-tiered cakes for large events
@beroacakes
Social Media Influencer & Brand Ambassador
Sarah from the UK has grown a loyal Instagram following and collaborates with multiple brands on social media
@bake.works
Cake Teacher with Her Own Cake Studio
Siham from Morocco turned her hobby into a high-end business with her own cake design studio where she teaches multiple sold-out cake classes
@artcakebysihamelalaoui
Cake Education with a Difference.
Too many tutorials online give you only one piece of the puzzle, leaving you to figure everything else out on your own.
Too many communities online breed endless spam and negativity.
Too many programs online don't take into consideration each person's unique level and abilities.
We Take a Wholesome Approach
to Cake Decorating
The Practical Stuff: Think core stacking techniques, cake construction, polished finishes, client-approved recipes
The Fun Stuff: Think modern decorations, new experimental mediums, gelatine, chocolate, fondant, buttercream, painting, wafer and rice paper galore.
The Deep Stuff: Think positive mindset, discovering your unique cake style and developing your design abilities.
The Overwhelming/Tedious Stuff: Think financials, admin, emails, marketing, pricing and problem-solving.
HOW IT WORKS
The Cake Insider Academy membership is delivered to students through a private members portal. Courses and trainings are delivered in a 5-stage roadmap, providing an easy-to-navigate, self-paced learning experience.
Stage One
Whether you're new to cake art or have some experience, learning the foundations is essential. We’ll start with baking intensives, mastering cake construction, stacking and covering with professional-grade finishes. You'll build competency in buttercream. ganache and fondant mediums to enable you to progress to more advanced techniques.
Stage Two
In this intermediate stage, we begin exploring new mediums to expand your design repertoire and elevate your creative bakes. You'll gain comprehensive knowledge in the areas of painting, piping, wafer paper, textures, rice paper, colour blending, chocolate and beyond. Learn how to mix and layer mediums together to create impressive, next-level bakes.
Stage Three
Begin honing your signature style, and learn how to present work in the bets possible light by learning essential dessert photography skills. Delve into advanced-level courses to develop authority in specific areas of cake craft - all of which will form the springboard to launching into expansive new opportunities.
Stage Four
Launch into the foray of cake entrepreneurship and learn how to start and establish a profitable cake business from home. You'll learn how to price, market and sell your baked goods in addition to finding a business model that suits your market and product. Gain insight into growing a loyal following on social media and creating a business around your cake passion.
Stage Five
Build your cake empire by learning strategies to brand expansion, exploring new income streams and implementing advanced selling methods. Learn how to outsource tasks, increase cake efficiency and build a team to enable your cake business to grow sustainably. Learn from experts who will guide you towards exciting new cake ventures like teaching, working with brands and retail.
What's it really like in the Cake Insider Academy?
Hear from one of our members, Siham from 'Art Cake by Siham El Alaoui' on her experience as a Cake Insider. A midwife turned cake designer, her business has now evolved into her own cake studio, teaching cake classes, and a new niche in elegant wedding cakes.
Comprehensive and Convenient
Modern Cake Decorating Courses
Full access to all 50+ Premium Courses, Pictorials and Templates with an emphasis on contemporary techniques that are in-demand in the industry, relevant and comprehensive.
Business + Social Media Trainings
Delve deep into live social media webinars, business trainings and Q&A coaching to help you turn your passion into a thriving business. You'll learn how to leverage social media, attract more clients and increase your cake profits.
Expert Guest Instructors
Learn from the best in the industry with special guest interviews, demos & tutorials to enable you to glean from a wide pool of contemporary talent and knowledge all from one place.
24/7 Community Support
Get positive cake & business support within our exclusive community of FB members so you never have to struggle or troubleshoot alone. Form connections with other likeminded cake makers, from all over the world!
Self-paced Video Trainings
Close up, step-by-step videos that are segmented into bite-sized, manageable lessons that build on top of each other. Rewatch and rewind video segments as many times as you need. You also have the option to speed up or slow down viewing times on each individual video.
Downloadable PDFs
Download and print resources, recipes and cheatsheets to have on hand anytime you need. Utilise worksheets to learn through actionable assignments.
Client-approved Recipes
Gain consistent, quality bakes by utilising recipes from our wide collection of student-rated, client-approved recipes. Downloadable and printable for you to keep baking with.
Live Q&A Sessions
Live coaching calls with Amanda or a guest expert discussing student questions. Outcome-driven conversations that allow for hotseat sessions and real-time problem-solving.
Student Transformations
Meet Amanda ...
LE CORDON BLUE GRADUATE TURNED 6-FIGURE HOME-BASED CAKE ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF SUGAR SUGAR CAKE SCHOOL
From building a multi-award winning wedding cake business, to being invited to teach cake workshops in Dubai, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia and throughout Australia, being published in global cake magazines.. It is my mission to help cake makers unlock their potential, master their craft and create successful home businesses doing what they love.
Over the past three years, we've helped over 43,000 ambitious bakers (just like you) build a life of creative artistry through our contemporary cake courses, uplifting community and compelling business coaching programmes.
Now, it's your turn to experience the same thing.
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Access All These Courses and More
Members get unlimited access to these Premium Courses plus all new content
Buttercream Cake
Foundations
Retail Price:$99.00
Included With Membership
Edible Lace
Textures
Retail Price:$129.00
Included With Membership
Cake Pricing
Fundamentals
Retail Price:$100.00
Included With Membership
Cake Textures
Series
Retail Price:$129.00
Included With Membership
How to Grow a Wedding Cake Business
Retail Price:$49.00
Included With Membership
Wafer Paper
Art
Retail Price:$97.00
Included With Membership
Fresh Flower
Masterclass
Retail Price:$49.00
Included With Membership
Wafer Paper Flowers Online
Course
Retail Price:$127.00
Included With Membership
Cake Business Start Up
Guide
Retail Price:$39.00
Included With Membership
Abstract Buttercream Painting Course
Retail Price:$79.95
Included With Membership
Ganache & Fondant Foundations Masterclass
Retail Price:$69.95
Included With Membership
Gelatine Sails & Decorations
Course
Retail Price:$69.95
Included With Membership
Realistic Floral Painting
Course
Retail Price:$79.95
Included With Membership
Metallic Chocolate Sail
Pictorial (PDF)
Retail Price:$6.95
Included With Membership
The Complete Painted Cookie
Course
Retail Price:$69.95
Included With Membership
Hanging Canvas Cake
Tutorial
Retail Price:$59.95
Included With Membership
Painted Buttercream Rose Cake Tutorial
Retail Price:$39.95
Included With Membership
Secure Cake Stacking
Pictorial (PDF)
Retail Price:$7.95
Included With Membership
Ice Cream Cake
Tutorial
Retail Price:$39.95
Included With Membership
Wafer Paper Sails Tutorial (PDF & Video)
Retail Price:$19.95
Included With Membership
Floating Spheres
Pictorial (PDF)
Retail Price:$7.95
Included With Membership
Grow with Instagram Reels
Retail Price:$99.00
Included With Membership
Fondant Ruffle
Tutorial
Retail Price:$39.95
Included With Membership
Graffiti Fondant Cake
Tutorial (PDF)
Retail Price:$7.95
Included With Membership
Cake Tasting & Consultation
Retail Price:$15.00
Included With Membership
Isomalt Crystal
Pictorial (PDF)
Retail Price:$6.95
Included With Membership
Cake Photography
Basics
Retail Price:$97.00
Included With Membership
Cake Business Contracts & Forms
Templates
Retail Price:$10.00
Included With Membership
Essential Email
Responses
Retail Price:$15.00
Included With Membership
Light Up Dessert Tower
Tutorial
Retail Price:$39.95
Included With Membership
Modern Buttercream
Piping
Retail Price:$99.00
Included With Membership
Spiral Buttercream Cake
Tutorial
Retail Price:$49.00
Included With Membership
Geo Sculpted Cake
Retail Price:$49.00
Included With Membership
Where Could You Be One Year From Now?
Imagine the possibilities if you had access to the right tools and cake methods. It's possible for you...
Huda Kooheji
"I have taken a lot of cake courses over the years, paid and free classes; this is one of the best classes ever!
Amanda explains everything in so much details; you cannot get a single thing wrong!
I am so glad I got this great membership it is WORTH EVERY PENNY!"
Iva Humar
CIA gives you: so many different techniques, details and knowledge in one place. And the CIA cake community is there all the time to support you. It's a great concept and I love it. The best thing about CIA academy is that you can learn about the business side and get some great templates and guidance. If I have to describe it in 1 sentence, the CIA gave me confidence and a great amount of knowledge to express myself in the cake world."
Sarah @bake.works
Not only does it give access to Amanda’s amazing courses and guides, it also opens the opportunity to be part of an incredible community of bakers. Amanda is sharing her valuable knowledge and techniques across so many areas which really transformed my skills and my business.
I can only highly recommend the CIA, no matter if you love decorating cakes in your free time or turned it into a career.
It's time to make those cake dreams a reality.
Join the WaitlistWho is this for?
The Cake Insider Academy is for passionate cake makers who want to advance their cake decorating skills and become confident, skilled and in-demand cake artists.
- Beginners: If you make cakes as a hobby and want to refine and expand your skills to confidently make beautiful and heart-stirring creations.
- Intermediate: If you decorate frequently but desire to accelerate your skills to become a sought-after baker, capable of launching a profitable business one day
- Advanced: If you have a side hustle or full-time cake business and want to uplevel your craft and business know-how, to experience greater growth and profitability
Learn from the Cake Industry's Finest Bakers
Guest Instructors featured in the Cake Insider Academy
Finespun Cakes
Awarded Best wedding cake designer in America
Have Some Cake UK
Internationally renowned cake sculptor and instructor
Sophia Mya Cupcakes
Cupcake trendsetter and Instagram superstar
Fleur De Lys Atelier
Innovator & original creator of 'wafer paper lace' technique.
From the Wild
Business coach and wholesale baking guru
Cake with Amber
Instructor and 'Australian Cake Decorator of the Year' winner
Cas Watene
Global cake sensation and instructor of Cas Cakery.
Lyons Den Cakes
Awarded Best Wedding Cake Artist in Australia
Wildchild Cakes
Tik Tok sensation and bakery owner
Sugarbase
Royal Icing cookie specialist and instructor
K Cake
Cake innovator, acclaimed designer & retail business
From frustrated and exhausted, to fulfilled and thriving
"I used to spend close to 2 hours trying to smooth my cakes over and over again. I remember looking at the cake and feeling really disappointed and defeated.
I signed up to the Cake Insider Academy, and after watching the Buttercream course, not only did I achieve smooth sides that was almost perfect; I managed to get sharp edges too!! I was SO SO HAPPY, so relieved, so proud of myself - I finally did it!! That night, no one could wipe the smile off my face.
Fast forward 2 months, I did my first ever wedding cake!!!
I have made such huge progress in a few short months since signing up to CIA. I’ve been getting multiple cake bookings each weekend and I’m able to charge my worth. My business is thriving and my customers love my work. Happy days :D
Thank you so much Amanda and team for all that you do. I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t sign up to CIA. So, thank you thank you thank you!
- Lakshmi Dudek, Sweetpassion Cakes & Cupcakes, Queensland AUS
The Cake Insider experience is like no other..
Hear from one of our members, Kinda Sayegh who created Beroa Cakes from scratch after moving to a new country and has grown her cake hobby into a bespoke high-end cake business that supports her family.
BONUS MODULES
Join this intake to get access to these exclusive bonuses
Bonus #1
Time Management & Cake Schedule
Stressed out and juggling a busy schedule? This cake scheduling guide will help you streamline your baking processes and know exactly how to allocate time for all the must-do asks involved in running a cake making operation from home. Get organised and experience greater time efficiency in the kitchen.
Bonus #2
50 Marketing Ideas to Supercharge Cake Sales
If you're struggling to sell cakes and get more orders, then this comprehensive guide full of proven marketing strategies will help you land cake clients (even if you've got no prior sales experience). Take charge of your cake business and get access to tried-and-true marketing strategies, specifically tailored for bakers and cake makers.
Bonus #3
Live Orientation Call
A real-time group Live session where you'll get to meet other members, become familiar with the programme and get the support you need to become a part of our uplifting cake community.
See what our students are saying..
From isolated & stuck... to being supported & growing a sweet startup
Being a perfectionist, I went down the rabbit hole of trying to master techniques on my own to nearly losing my mind and thank my lucky stars, I found CIA by chance.
I signed up and what a stark difference it has been for me. I finally cracked the code of stacking cakes neatly, crumb coating them, filling correctly and more than anything else in the world, I FINALLY had smooth sides and sharp edges!!! I was blown away by how much I have achieved within a very short period of time and the professional finish of my cakes. =
The community support has been an immense relief - to know that someone, somewhere at whatever time of day will have some solution me!
I’m now on path to confidently experimenting and saying yes to different designs as I can now rely on the CIA content even if I’m doing something for the first time. ~ Manu, Ambrosia Cakes and Bakes @ambrosia_cakesandbakes