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  • Ballerina Shoes Cake

    This 9″ Ballerina Shoes birthday cake is made from dark chocolate mud-cake and filled with dark chocolate ganache. Materials 0.5 metres of 1 metre wide net Glue gun 14″ cake board 2 x 9″ set up boards Super Pearl Dust (Sweet Inspirations) Hot Pink Twinkle dust (Global Sugar Art) Clay gun 1.2 kg white sugar-paste…

  • Easter Cookie Tutorial

    These cookies are iced using the ‘Outlining and Flooding’ technique which is simple to learn. The outline works as a dam or wall to hold the runny icing which you use to fill in the main parts of the cookie. I made these cookies in 3 delightful flavours: chocolate, vanilla and gingerbread.   Chocolate Cookie…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Hannah Montana Cake

    I used the Planet Cake recipe for dark chocolate Mud Cake then torted and covered it in dark chocolate ganache also from Planet Cake. Click here for Planet Cake Recipe for dark chocolate mud cake. I covered the cake in white sugar paste from Bakels and covered the board with it in one go i.e. I cut…