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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)…

  • How to make a Rainbow Layer Cake using white chocolate mud recipe

    This cake is similar to my Rainbow Cake below and you can find full instructions for it here. Three things make this cake special 1. The Rainbow Layers. They can be a big surprise if the recipient and/or guests have no idea what is inside. 2. The cake is based on a White Chocolate Mud Cake.…

  • 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…

  • Wedding Cake Pops Tutorial

    Cake pops have without a doubt become one of the most popular sweet treat trends in years.   While cake pops are certainly a fun treat to share and eat, they can be a challenge to create. I will start this tutorial with the recipes and method I used to make these Bride and Groom…

  • 80s Theme Cake

    This 80s Theme Cake was made for Jessica’s 30th Birthday Bash in Brisbane. It is made from white chocolate and dark chocolate marbled mudcake, filled with dark chocolate ganache and covered with sugarpaste. The Rubik’s Cube is a really delicious truffle. The birthday girl wanted hot pink, turquoise and yellow as her colours but you…

  • 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…

  • Valentine Heart Cookies Tutorial

    This year I made my Valentine Heart Cookies from gingerbread. I did this as I will be selling them at Pottsville Beach Markets on Sunday 5th February 2012 and the biscuits will have to keep for a couple of weeks. Gingerbread easily keeps for a month in cello bags and is my best choice but…

  • 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…