BIG HONEY CAKES COURSE
PRACTICAL ONLINE COURSE BY MARUSYA MANKO

BIG HONEY CAKES
COURSE

Learn how to make 20 luxurious cakes from Chef Marusya Manko and use this ready-to-sell collection to drive your pastry business.

Discover new, interesting flavor combinations with unusual tastes that your customers will admire.
OCTOBER 25
Course start
10 WEEKS
Course duration
20 LESSONS
with tutor's support

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COURSE PROGRAM

Pear, Gorgonzola
and Pine Nut

This cake is inspired by the combination of pear, pine nut and gorgonzola flavors. If you like blue cheese, you will be pleasantly surprised by how wonderful it tastes in a honey cake.

In this class, chef Marusya Manko will show you how to bake thin honey sponges, prepare stewed pears with saffron, make a gorgonzola frosting, a cheese and pine nut filling and a cream cheese buttercream.

Make this cake and enjoy its incomparable combination of flavors!
honey cake

Pistachio Raspberry

This cake has been designed for true pistachio lovers. It is delicate with a bright, fresh note of raspberry and a pronounced honey accent.

Chef Marusya Manko will show you how to bake pistachio and honey sponge layers, make a raspberry sauce, a pistachio filling, a pistachio and mascarpone frosting, and pistachio buttercream.

To create this amazing natural buttercream color, the chef uses pure pistachio paste and a pinch of real saffron.

Make this bright cake and enjoy its rich pistachio, raspberry and honey flavours!
honey cake

Cherry Velvet

In this cake, chef Marusya Manko has combined her favourite flavours: cherry, honey and sour cream. Along with the delicate flavour, the cake will mesmerise you with its delicious rhythm of colourful layers.

The dessert is decorated with a cherry necklace that brings volume and color to the cake, highlighting its uniqueness. This vertical layer honey cake will delight everyone, both adults and kids.

Make this cake for special occasions and enjoy its delicate taste and festive appearance!
vertical layer honey cake

Milk Slice

This is a simple but extremely delicious cake.

It consists of two textures: a delicate chocolate honey sponge and a silky mascarpone frosting. The cake is topped with a tasty milk chocolate icing.

Creamy, light and delicate - a charming combination of flavours for everyone. Everyone who tastes it will certainly fall in love with it.

Make the Milk Slice honey cake as a festive dessert for small events, especially when you don't have much time for cooking but want to have something really special.
honey cake

Pistachio, Wild Strawberry and Camembert

This cake is a perfect combination of bright creamy pistachio flavour and expressive wild strawberry aftertaste.

In this class Chef Marusya Manko will show you how to bake honey sponge layers, make a pistachio crémeux and a wild strawberry coulis, prepare a pistachio and camembert filling, make a pistachio cream cheese buttercream, and assemble them into an amazing cake!

Make this special cake and surprise everyone around!
honey cake

Сoffee, Toffee and Pecan

Marusya Manko's Сoffee, Toffee and Pecan cake consists of delicate chocolate honey sponge layers, a melty toffee, caramelized pecan nuts, a cream cheese buttercream and a rich coffee frosting.

The surface of the cake is decorated with toffee drips and pecan nuts, revealing the cake's flavour.

Pleasing everyone just became possible. Make this Сoffee, Toffee and Pecan sponge cake and get all the compliments as its flavour combination is loved by everyone!
honey cake

Raspberry Rose

Modest on the outside and stunning on the inside, this cake will be a main attraction at any event. It is a remarkable spectacle with an impressive rhythm of 28 layers made with a chocolate honey sponge, a raspberry coulis, a raspberry soufflé and a tea rose frosting.

The combination of raspberry and rose will delight you with its summer freshness and rich taste. The cake's decoration clearly shows what flavours are awaiting you on the inside.

Prepare the Raspberry Rose honey cake to celebrate any event and impress your loved ones!
honey cake

Spartak

Honey sponge cake with cherries
A cake that seduces first with the beauty of its cut, and later, with the tender taste of thin chocolate layers combined with chocolate custard, pieces of juicy cherries and dark chocolate ganache.

Bright and delicious, this cake will become the main attraction at any celebration.

Caramel

Honey sponge cake with
prunes and walnuts
This festive, very delicious and easy to make Caramel cake will become one of your favorites!

You will prepare tender caramel-honey layers, caramel cream, salted butter caramel and make appetizing drips from it.
Caramel Honey sponge cake with prunes and walnuts

Orange

Honey sponge cake
This sunny cake with a very fresh taste catches the attention at first sight!

This cake is a course favorite because of its bright appearance and seducing cut. Its saturated orange – honey taste brings you in a good mood and joy!
Orange Honey sponge cake

Chiffon

Honey sponge cake
For this cake you will make thin and delicate layers, you will feel their tender texture and discover why they are called "chiffon" layers.

Learn to make fillings which you can use in other cakes as well: white chocolate coconut ganache and bilberry and blackberry confit.
Chiffon Honey sponge cake

Bilberry Tenderness

Honey sponge cake
Make delicate sponge layers with milk & honey soaking to create a moist texture of this cake.

Prepare bilberry filling, soft bilberry pate de fruit and bilberry frosting.

Learn to make cream cheese buttercream with soft bilberry pate de fruit with no food colorants.
Bilberry Tenderness Honey sponge cake

Мint - Lime

Honey sponge cake
The rich taste of mint in each texture, combined with the noble bitterness of chocolate, will delight lovers of fresh tastes.

Spectacular cake with a beautiful rhythmic cut and a pleasant color will decorate even the most elegant shelf.
Мint - Lime Honey sponge cake

Bird's milk

Soufflé cake
Bird's milk Soufflé cake
You will definitely like the tender and light taste of this cake!

Learn how to assemble the cake with soufflé and sponge layers, and how to make a neat, even coating of the cake with chocolate icing.

You will master the original technique of decorating the cake with a chocolate pattern.

Black currant

Honey sponge cake
Delicious, with a sour note of black currant, this cake will please you with its balanced taste and very tender and moist sponge texture combined with berry filling and cream.

This cake is one of the most beautiful in the course. Its bright and rhythmic cut attracts your attention and invites you to taste it.
Black currant Honey sponge cake

Classic

Honey sponge cake
Classic Honey sponge cake
With this cake, you will learn the real taste of classic Russian honey sponge cake.

Make classic honey dough and bake fragrant layers.
Prepare simple and easy to make sour cream frosting and stable cream cheese buttercream for this cake.

Learn to assemble, stabilize, smooth and coat a multi-layer cake.

Chocolate

Honey cake
Learn to make classic chocolate & honey layers, sour cream frosting and one more stable and simple cream cheese buttercream for this easy but very delicious cake.

Learn to assemble, stabilize, smooth and coat a multi-layer cake
Chocolate Honey cake

Prague





Chocolate cake
Prague Chocolate cake
Rich in fragrant chocolate tastes, you will make this Prague cake many times for your customers and loved ones.

Learn to make tender chocolate sponge with cognac soaking to make layers moist and fragrant.

Make chocolate icing and stable dark chocolate ganache to decorate this cake.

Napoleon

Сake
Napoleon Сake
This cake is one of the most loved in Ukraine and some Eastern European countries.

Learn to make crème Anglaise and tasty, moderately sweet buttercream which is traditionally used for this cake.

You will love this cake at first bite.

Kyiv

Сake
Kyiv Сake
The taste of this cake is legendary in the chef's home country.

Make it and learn why it became so popular.

Learn to make crunchy meringue layers, with lots of toasted hazelnuts. Make very tasty and easy to make buttercream with condensed milk.
the program, schedule and trial lessons may be changed by the tutor's decision
  • Honey sponge layers
  • Cheese cream
  • Stewed pears
  • Cheese and pine nut filling
  • Gorgonzola frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Bake thin honey sponges
  • Prepare stewed pears with saffron
  • Make a delicious gorgonzola frosting
  • Prepare a stable and bright cheese and pine nut filling
  • Make a smooth cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake
  • Decorate the cake with pine nuts and pears
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Pistachio and honey sponge layers
  • Raspberry sauce
  • Pistachio filling
  • Pistachio and mascarpone frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream with pistachio paste
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Make pistachio and honey sponge layers
  • Prepare a bright raspberry sauce
  • Make a deliсious and stable pistachio filling
  • Prepare a pistachio and mascarpone frosting
  • Make a pistachio buttercream
  • Perfectly assemble and stabilize the cake in a ring
  • Assemble and coat the cake with pistachio buttercream
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Honey sponge layers
  • Cherry marmalade
  • Whipped sour cream frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Bake honey sponge layers, ideal for vertical assembling
  • Make a delicious cherry marmalade
  • Make a silky whipped sour cream frosting and a stable cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble, stabilize, smooth and coat a vertical layer cake
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Chocolate honey sponge
  • Mascarpone frosting
  • Milk chocolate icing
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Make a delicate chocolate honey sponge
  • Prepare a silky mascarpone frosting
  • Make a delicious milk chocolate icing
  • Assemble and coat the cake with milk chocolate icing
  • Decorate the prepared cake
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Pistachio honey sponge layers
  • Pistachio crémeux
  • Wild strawberry coulis
  • Pistachio and camembert filling
  • Pistachio cream cheese buttercream
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Bake fragrant pistachio honey sponge layers
  • Make a rich pistachio crémeux
  • Prepare an expressive wild strawberry coulis
  • Make a creamy pistachio and camembert filling
  • Make a stable pistachio frosting cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake
  • Decorate the cake with a fresh and festive strawberry and pistachio wreath
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Chocolate honey sponge layers
  • Toffee caramel
  • Caramelized pecan nuts
  • Coffee frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Make chocolate honey sponge layers
  • Prepare a creamy toffee
  • Make caramelized pecan nuts
  • Make a coffee frosting
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake in a ring
  • Coat the cake with cream cheese buttercream
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Chocolate honey sponge layers
  • Raspberry coulis
  • Raspberry soufflé
  • Tea rose frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream
CAKE TEXTURES:
  • Make delicate chocolate honey sponge layers
  • Make a bright raspberry coulis
  • Make an airy and delicious raspberry soufflé
  • Assemble and stabilize a tall cake
  • Make a smooth cake coating
LEARN HOW TO:
  • Chocolate and honey sponge layers
  • Chocolate custard
  • Stable cherry filling
  • Stable and tasty chocolate ganache to coat the cake
MAKE :
  • Bake chocolate and honey sponge layers ideal for vertical assembling
  • Make tasty chocolate custard
  • Make stable chocolate ganache and coat the cake
  • Assemble and stabilize a vertical layer cake
LEARN TO:
  • Caramel honey sponge layers
  • Salted butter caramel
  • Caramel cream with dulce de leche
  • Cream cheese buttercream for coating the cake
MAKE:
  • Bake caramel honey sponge layers
  • Make delicious salted butter caramel
  • Make simple and delicious caramel cream
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake
  • Make smooth cream cheese buttercream coating
  • Decorate the cake with drips of salted butter caramel
LEARN TO:
  • Honey-orange sponge layers
  • Orange confit with rum
  • Orange curd
  • Orange-sour cream frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream with orange paste
MAKE:
LEARN TO:
  • Bake tender honey-orange sponge layers
  • Make fillings with orange: confit, curd, orange-sour cream frosting
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream with orange paste
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake in a ring
  • Coat the cake with cream cheese buttercream and smooth it
  • Chiffon honey sponge layers
  • Bilberry and blackberry confit
  • Coconut ganache
  • Vanilla-sour cream frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream for coating the cake
MAKE:
  • Make thin and tender sponge layers
  • Make deliсious and stable fillings and sour cream frosting that can be applied to other sponges
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream
  • Perfectly assemble and stabilize the cake in the ring
  • Coat the cake with cream cheese buttercream and smooth it
LEARN TO:
  • Tender honey sponge layers
  • Milk-honey soaking for the cake
  • Bilberry filling
  • Soft bilberry pate de fruit
  • Bilberry frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream with soft currant pate de fruit
MAKE:
  • Make delicate sponges and cut them into even layers
  • Create interesting textures with bilberries: berry filling, soft pate de fruit and frosting
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream with soft bilberry pate de fruit
  • Assemble and stabilize the cake in the ring
  • Make smooth cream cheese buttercream coating
LEARN TO:
  • Mint-honey sponge layers
  • Mint-lime curd
  • Creamy mint frosting
  • Mint cream cheese buttercream
  • Chocolate drips to decorate the cake
MAKE:
  • Make mint paste and mint powder to add mint flavors to various textures
  • Make mint curd and mint frosting
  • Make stable mint cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble and stabilize a tall cake
  • Make beautiful chocolate drips on the surface of the cake
LEARN TO:
  • Almond and vanilla sponge layers
  • Soufflé Bird's Milk
  • Chocolate fudge
  • Beautiful pattern on the cake top
MAKE:
LEARN TO:
  • Make almond and vanilla sponge layers
  • Make airy soufflé Bird's Milk
  • Make stable chocolate icing to coat the cake
  • Create a beautiful pattern on the top of the cake
  • Tender sponge layers
  • Black currant confit
  • Black currant soft pate de fruit
  • Black currant frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream with soft currant pate de fruit
MAKE:
  • Make tender sponge layers
  • Create delicious textures with black currants: confit, pate de fruit and frosting
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream with soft currant pate de fruit
  • Assemble and stabilize a tall cake
  • Make even coating
LEARN TO:
  • Classic honey dough
  • Sour cream frosting
  • Stable cream cheese buttercream
MAKE :
  • Bake fragrant honey sponge layers
  • Make delicious and simple sour cream frosting and stable cream cheese buttercream for the cake
  • Assemble, stabilize, smooth and coat a multi-layer cake
LEARN TO:
  • Chocolate sponge layers
  • Sour cream frosting
  • Cream cheese buttercream for coating
MAKE:
  • Make tender chocolate sponge layers
  • Make stable sour cream frosting
  • Make stable cream cheese buttercream
  • Assemble and stabilize a tall cake
  • Make a smooth finish coating
LEARN TO:
  • Tender chocolate sponge
  • Fragrant cognac soaking
  • Chocolate buttercream with dulce de leche
  • Dark chocolate ganache
MAKE:
LEARN TO:
  • Make a tender chocolate sponge with cognac soaking
  • Make chocolate buttercream with dulce de leche
  • Make chocolate icing and stable chocolate ganache to cover and decorate the cake
  • Crunchy laminated dough layers
  • Crème Anglaise
  • Moderately sweet buttercream
MAKE:
LEARN TO:
  • Make delicate and crunchy laminated dough layers
  • Make Crème Anglaise
  • Make a tasty, moderately sweet buttercream
  • Crunchy meringue layers
  • Buttercream with condensed milk
  • Stable coating
MAKE:
LEARN TO:
  • Make very tasty and easy to make buttercream with condensed milk
  • Make crunchy meringue layers, with lots of toasted hazelnuts

AFTER THIS COURSE YOU WILL

01
Learn how to properly assemble, stabilize, smooth and coat multi-layered cakes
Master the techniques of working with impressive multi-layered honey sponge cakes
Discover new, interesting flavor combinations with unusual tastes that your customers will admire
02
03
04
Make 20 luxurious cakes and use this ready-to-sell collection to drive your pastry business

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR

Pastry amateurs
who want to take
their mastery to a new level

You want foolproof recipes and techniques, as well as guidance and support from a professional chef. You would like to prove your skills with a certificate

Pastry shop,
coffee shop
or home bakeries owners

You need luxurious pastries to enrich your pastry assortment with new flavors, increasing sales and attracting new customers

You are a confident cake maker but want to get to know new recipes and skills

You want to learn how a chef creates sponge cakes for special occasions, try original recipes and learn how to make new pastry masterpieces in your kitchen

ADVANTAGES OF THE COURSE

Chef Marusya Manko will share with you her expert knowledge of how to prepare luxurious cakes for special occasions.

You will get 20 video classes and detailed foolproof PDF recipes and will learn how to make honey cakes with impressive cuts and bright flavors.

Gain a collection of luxurious cakes to delight your customers and grow your sales.
Chef Marusya Manko with honey cake
We offer you professional recipes that combine an optimal use of ingredients with the best cooking techniques.

There is no risk of wasting expensive products, money or time - you won't be disappointed!

Enrich your pastry assortment with beautifully shaped cakes that definitely deliver and delight your clients with their look and taste.
A ready-for-business collection
of impressive honey cakes

Saving time and money when buying professional recipes

honey cake photo
Cherry Velvet vertical layer cake cut photo
Using simple ingredients, you will create 20 exclusive cakes by Marusya Manko.

Each pastry impresses with its look and taste.

Take your business to a new level with a ready-to-make collection by Marusya Manko.
Original and modern flavors that will excite your clients
GET A 7-DAY FREE TRIAL
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After registration you will receive an email within 15 minutes.
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Register and learn how to make a vertical layer Spartak cake from chef Marusya Manko!
the program, the schedule and the trial lessons may be changed by the tutor's decision
GET A 7-DAY FREE TRIAL
Register and learn how to make a vertical layer Spartak cake from chef Marusya Manko!
GET 7-DAY FREE TRIAL
the program, schedule and trial lessons may be changed by the tutor's decision
After registration you will receive an e-mail within 15 minutes.
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COURSE AUTHOR — MARUSYA MANKO

Pastry chef and tutor at the International Culinary Academy KICA
Hello, I am Marusya Manko and welcome to my Big Honey Cakes course!

I have created this course to provide you with my expertise on how to make impressive cakes.

Step by step, we are going to prepare 20 luxurious cakes that will brighten up any celebration.

I invite you to prepare my amazing collection of georgeous honey cakes:

Cherry Velvet honey cake
Coffee, Toffee and Pecan honey cake
Pear, Gorgonzola and Pine Nut honey cake
Pistachio Raspberry honey cake
Raspberry Rose honey cake
Pistachio, Wild Strawberry and Camembert honey cake
Milk Slice honey cake
Spartak honey cake
Caramel honey cake with prunes and walnuts
Orange honey sponge cake
Chiffon honey sponge cake
Bilberry Tenderness honey cake
Мint - Lime honey cake
Bird's milk soufflé cake
Black currant honey sponge cake
Classic honey cake and Chocolate honey cake
Prague cake, Napoleon cake and Kyiv cake

Enhance your skills, drive your business and delight your clients with cakes that will turn any event into a special occasion!
Marusya Manko
honey cake decorating
Marusya Manko level the honey cake
Cherry velvet honey cake decorating

COURSE MATERIALS

COURSE MATERIALS
20 detailed PDF - recipes that will stay with you forever
Personal account on KICA learning platform
Tutor's support and feedback
Video-classes
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    " Chef Marusya's step-by-step instructions are very easy to follow. Her recipes are super delicious. „
    " As a business owner I always look for new flavours, new cakes that I can grab to my menu. „
    " I have always wished to learn the honey cakes. And it was like "dreams come true" for me. I have enjoyed all tasks, I love the Chocolate Spartak cake the most!„

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