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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Thong cake (Flip-flop cake)

    This lovely cake can be baked for many different special occasions. I even made one for a Christening!! Materials 900g Pale blue sugar paste, coloured with Wilton Royal blue and Americolor Royal Purple (for cake, straps, plaque and flower centres) 200g Dark blue sugar paste, coloured with Wilton Royal blue and Americolor Royal Purple (for flowers)…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Pink Tatty Teddy Christening Cake Tutorial

    7” White Chocolate Caramel Mud Cake Round Ingredients 180g butter 180g white choc 162ml water 90 SR 180g plain 120g caster 120g soft brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 250g nestle Top’n’Fill Caramel Ganache 780g white chocolate 270ml pure cream Fondant 780g sugar-paste Method for the 7″ round white chocolate Caramel mud cake  (adapted…

  • 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…