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Boy’s birthday cake

  • Wine Bottle in a Crate Cake

    The label is wet in this photo. it dried out later on.   Step 1 – Make the wine bottle out of gumpaste or fondant at least 3 days ahead: Use a real wine bottle as a mould and dust with cornflour to keep the fondant from sticking to it…a lot of cornflour. Knead some black…

  • Spiderman Cake

    The idea for this cake came from the Spiderman 4 wallpaper below I copied the spider and the number 4 to cut out in black and red sugar paste. If you would like a larger sized spider  to print out just visit my ‘Free Stuff’ page. The cake itself is a 7″ round Dark Chocolate Mud Cake filled and…

  • Transformers Cake Tutorial

    This was a small 5.5″ diameter cake to feed 10 children. Dark Chocolate Mud Cake (from Planet Cake Cookbook) Ingredients for 5.5″ cake 80g  butter 80g  dark choc 10g  coffee 60ml  water 50g  SR 50g  plain 20g  cocoa 1/4 tsp  bicarb 180g  caster 1.5  eggs 3  tsp oil 40ml  buttermilk Dark Chocolate Ganache  450g dark chocolate,…

  • Ben 10 Cake Tutorial

    Ben 10 Birthday Cake When I am designing a new cake I like to gather all my ideas and resources together before I start. I put all my images on one page and then take a screenshot. I have an iMac and I simply Preview/File/Take Screen Shot. Screen Shot Cake tin and cake boards 11.5″…