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Learn to bake. From your first batch to your finest creation.
Free online baking classes from established baking creators, organized into step-by-step video courses with VanillaGoods notes, recipes and the ingredients to practice.
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Our most popular free courses, start to finish.
Free course
Cake layers, frosting, piping
Free course
Mixing, baking, texture techniques
Free course
Laminated dough, shaping, proofing
Free course
Crème brûlée, pastry cream, mousse
Not sure where to begin? Choose courses that match your experience.
First bakes and core techniques
Doughs, crusts and confections
Laminated doughs and pastry projects
12 baking categories, from first loaves to French pastry.
Measuring, mixing and oven basics
1 courseCake layers, frosting, piping
1 courseMixing, baking, texture techniques
1 courseLaminated dough, shaping, proofing
1 courseFlaky crusts, fillings, blind baking
1 courseBrioche-style doughs, frying, glazes
1 courseKneading, fermentation, shaping
1 courseCrème brûlée, pastry cream, mousse
1 courseTempering, ganache, caramel
1 courseCustard bases, churning, sorbets
1 courseButtercreams, piping, glazes
1 courseBrewing, espresso, milk drinks
1 courseEvery lesson is a free video. No signup needed to watch.
The handful of habits that separate good home baking from great: weighing ingredients, mixing methods and knowing your oven.
Bake a moist vanilla layer cake, level and stack it, crumb coat and finish it with smooth buttercream.
Learn what makes cookies chewy, crisp or cakey, then bake chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies and bars with confidence.
Make croissants at home: the détrempe, the butter block, three folds, shaping, proofing and the bake.
An all-butter pie crust and a sweet tart shell, blind baked crisp and filled with fruit or custard.
Yeast-raised doughnuts from mixing to glazing, plus cake doughnuts and cinnamon rolls from the same skills.
Bake a sandwich loaf, then brioche and challah: kneading, fermentation, shaping and baking.
Learn how to prepare a smooth custard, temper eggs properly, bake in a water bath and caramelize a crisp sugar topping, then take it further with flavors and plating.
Temper chocolate, make ganache and truffles, and cook caramel without fear.
A vanilla bean custard base, churned or no-churn, plus sorbet and tips for a scoopable texture.
American and Swiss meringue buttercream, cream cheese frosting and the piping tips you'll use most.
Better coffee and tea at home: brewing ratios, espresso basics, steamed milk and a homemade vanilla syrup.
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The beans and extracts our lessons call for most.
Conversion charts, temperature guides and lesson checklists, plus new free courses by email.
Created by VanillaGoods. Free, unsubscribe any time. Videos stay free to watch with or without signing up.The VanillaGoods Baking Academy turns the best free baking tutorials on YouTube into structured courses. Each course moves from the basics to finished bakes in five short lessons, so you always know what to watch next.
Start with baking fundamentals such as measuring by weight and creaming butter, then move on to cakes and cupcakes, cookies and bars, pies and tarts, bread and enriched doughs, doughnuts, custards and crème brûlée, chocolate and confections, ice cream, frostings and piping, and even coffee and tea at home. Advanced bakers can take on laminated doughs in Pastry & Croissant School.
Every lesson credits its creator and pairs the video with VanillaGoods notes and the ingredients to practice with, including the pure vanilla extract and Madagascar, Tahitian and Ugandan vanilla beans we source directly.
Yes. Every lesson is a free YouTube video you can watch right on the page, with no account or email needed. The optional guides are free too; we email them to you if you'd like them.
Established baking creators on YouTube. Each lesson credits the creator and links to their channel, and the video plays in YouTube's own player. VanillaGoods chooses the lessons, puts them in order and writes the notes and product suggestions around them.
We search for clear, well-reviewed tutorials that their creators allow to be embedded, then an editor watches every one before it's added. We check regularly that each video is still available.
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Videos are embedded from YouTube with the official player and remain the work of their creators, who are credited on every lesson. VanillaGoods writes the course structure, lesson notes and product recommendations.
