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Anyone Can Ice a Birthday Cake
If you think decorating a birthday cake is beyond your skill, think again. Anyone can create a cake that will please family and friends and it will only take you a...
Anyone Can Ice a Celebration Cake
Anyone can create a celebration cake. It’s true: you don’t need any particular skill. With the wide range of instant icing, decorative accessories and ready-made...
Anyone Can Ice a Wedding Cake
The cake is the centrepiece of the wedding reception so to undertake to make and decorate a cake for a wedding is a challenge that many would decline. Yet a cake...
Cake Decorating With Edible Gold Leaf
Edible gold leaf has a long and decadent history – it’s not known which was the earliest culture to indulge in eating gold, but as soon as any...
Chocolate Icing and Filling
You can fill and ice almost any cake with chocolate – and why not? From a glossy glaze to a spreadable buttercream, every type of icing can be adapted to include...
Decorating Your Cupcakes
When it comes to decorating cupcakes throw away the rulebook and try some of our exciting new ideas… crumble-topped cupcakes, zesty lemon cupcakes, or caram...
Flavoured Icings and Fillings
From rhubarb to lavender from mocha to Baileys, there are a hundred and one icings to spread proudly on your cakes. Look around and you’ll find books dedicated to...
Icing Alternatives
If icing still terrifies you (and we’re doing our best to prevent that) there are plenty of ways to make your cake look gorgeous – without mixing, moulding or piping....
Imaginative Cake Decorating
A delicious cake deserves beautiful decoration. If you’ve got a special occasion or a party coming up why not turn your favourite cake into a jaw-dropping...
Making Fondant Roses
Constructing moulded fondant roses requires a certain amount of practise, but once you’ve perfected the technique, it’s a fantastic addition to your cake-baking...
Sourcing Your Cake Decorations
It’s a fairy land of gold leaf Labrador-shaped cutters and hologram glitter out there, if you know where to look. Want to find out where Nigella buys her tiny...
Special Effects: Pastillage Cake Toppers
Pastillage is often confused with gumpaste, the sugar and gum traganath blend used to mould flowers and leaves for wedding cakes. While the two...
Special Effects: Wood or Marble Effect Fondant Icing
These two special effect icings look best on a square single tier cake, where their subtle detailing can be seen without distractions. They also look...
Spun Sugar Techniques for Cakes
Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest effect and spun sugar is just such a technique. The recipe is simple but the appearance of well-constructed spun...
Sugar Free Toppings for Cakes and Cupcakes
Making sugar free cakes is definitely an art, and it can take a few attempts to get the right balance of ingredients to deliver a tasty,...
Using Confectioner's Varnish On Cake
Sometimes we see a cake so fragile and luminescent as to seem almost impossible to eat. Airy sugar creations leap away from the cake layers, shining as if dew has...
Working With Your Icing
Sugarpaste piping, plaques, fondant and trellis: when did icing become so complicated? No wonder most of us avoid it, commissioning bespoke wedding or birthday cakes...
