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  • Cute VW Kombi Cake Tutorial

      This cute Kombi is just 6.5″ long by 3.5″ wide and is a smaller and cuter version of my usual VW Kombi. It is made from dark chocolate mud cake filled and covered with dark chocolate ganache with a layer of sugar-paste on top. This little cake will serve 16 dessert portions. Materials 9″…

  • Lightning McQueen Cake tutorial

      What fun I had making this little beauty! He is only 10″ long but ever inch is packed with dynamite! The cake inside is based on a 7″ square Chocolate cake (not a mud cake) with dark chocolate ganache covered in sugar paste. MATERIALS A sheet of card with a shiny or wax side for…

  • Pirate Ship Cake Tutorial

    I made this cake for Slade’s 1st birthday and his Mum didn’t want anything too scary so no skull and cross bones on this cake. It was fun to make the cake and like many of my cakes I didn’t have any idea how it would turn out and just made decisions as to style…

  • Jawa Cake Tutorial

    This cake does not require any sugar paste which is excellent news for children who dislike sugar paste or the decorator who dislikes using sugar paste. The Chocolate ganache finish is a little rustic but suits our cheeky little Jawa well. There are no real instructions for sculpting this cake as I mostly used my…

  • How to make a Dr Who Tardis Cake

    The Tardis cake was on a black marble turntable and we hid it in the media room (no windows). Lochie was brought into the darkened room and someone swirled the cake around at speed while another person moved their hand rapidly up and down in front of a torch, creating a strobe effect while a…

  • Angry Birds Cake

    Make the 8″ square Dark Chocolate Mud Cake 500g unsalted butter 400g dark chocolate 10g (2 tablespoon) instant coffee 2-2/3 cups warm water 380g (2 cup) caster sugar 520g (3 cups) self raising flour 60g (1/2 cup) cocoa 4 eggs 2 teaspoon vanilla 1. Grease and line base and sides of cake pan with one…

  • How to make a Rainbow Layer Cake using white chocolate mud recipe

    This cake is similar to my Rainbow Cake below and you can find full instructions for it here. Three things make this cake special 1. The Rainbow Layers. They can be a big surprise if the recipient and/or guests have no idea what is inside. 2. The cake is based on a White Chocolate Mud Cake.…

  • Lego Millennium Falcon Cake

    Nothing evokes nostalgia quite like Lego and Star Wars! Embrace that feeling by following the steps in this tutorial to create a dark chocolate Lego-style Millennium Falcon! This cake is built around an 8″ round dark chocolate mud cake but you will also need a 6″ round dark chocolate mud cake to make the Cockpit and Forward…

  • Star Wars Death Star Cake

    This Death Star Cake was such fun to make that you just won’t know when to stop! It is made of Dark Chocolate Mud Cake and filled and covered in Dark Chocolate Ganache then grey Sugar-paste. Use two 8.5″ or 9″ metal kitchen bowls to bake the cakes.   Dark Chocolate Mud Cake   Ingredients…

  • Bumblebee Transformer Cake

    Dark Chocolate Mud Cake (from Planet Cake Cookbook) Ingredients for 7″ cake 135 g  butter 135 g  dark choc 15 g  coffee 100 ml  water 75 g  SR 75 g  plain 30 g  cocoa 1/4 tsp  bicarb 300 g  caster 3  eggs 5  tsp oil 60 ml  buttermilk Dark Chocolate Ganache  735 g dark chocolate, finely…