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  • 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)…


  • Retro Birthday Cake

    This stunning 8″ round cake is a Vanilla Buttermilk Cake layered with Swiss Lemon Meringue Buttercream and covered in sugar-paste. One thing I really like about this particular buttermilk cake is that it is essentially a one bowl cake, not following the regular cake pattern of creamed butter and sugar, eggs added one by one and then alternating dry…


  • 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…


  • 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…