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  • Lace Wedding Cake Tutorial

    This fabulous cake took a good many hours to complete but I think it was worth every minute of my time. Here are the dimensions of the cakes I made………… 4″ round x 3.5″ high: 5″ round x 4.5″ high: 6″ Dummy tier x 3″ high: 8″ round x 4.5″ high. You could alter these…

  • Black and White Tiffany Wedding Cake

    I made this cake for a wedding on the Gold Coast yesterday! The top tier is a 10″ Hummingbird Cake filled with Cream Cheese Frosting and some Decorator’s Buttercream to go directly under the sugarpaste. The bottom tier is a 12″ Dark Chocolate Jaffa Mud Cake filled and coated with Dark Chocolate Ganache and covered…

  • Beach Cake Tutorial

    This fabulous Beach Wedding Cake is covered in ivory sugarpaste and decorated with matching handmade and painted sugar-paste shells. The bottom tier is a 10″ dark chocolate mud cake filled with dark chocolate ganache and the top tier is an 8″ white chocolate mud cake filled with white chocolate ganache. Ingredients for 10” Dark Chocolate…

  • Hand painted Wedding Cake Tutorial

    Materials needed 7″ and 9″ round card for the base of each tier. Doweling for support Bottle Green satin ribbon – 6mm wide by 2m Bottle Green satin ribbon – 2 inches wide by 2m Black satin ribbon 1 inch wide by 2m Diamontes buckle 13″ diameter cake board 4mm or 6mm thick 7” Dark…

  • Pink Tiffany Wedding Cake Tutorial

    This cake was made up of two square tiers. The bottom tier was an 11″ dark chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache and the top tier was a 9″ white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache. Ingredients for the 9″ square white chocolate mud cake 400g butter 400g white chocolate 350ml water 400…

  • How to make Ganache and cover your cake with it

    I love using ganache to cover cakes and wedding cakes as it tastes incredibly delicious and it’s so much easier to get nice, straight sides and edges compared to buttercream. Ganache is also wonderful to use under sugar-paste for the same reasons. Living as I do on the Gold Coast, Australia, ganache is the obvious…