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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…

  • 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)…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Transformers Cake Tutorial

    This was a small 5.5″ diameter cake to feed 10 children. Dark Chocolate Mud Cake (from Planet Cake Cookbook) Ingredients for 5.5″ cake 80g  butter 80g  dark choc 10g  coffee 60ml  water 50g  SR 50g  plain 20g  cocoa 1/4 tsp  bicarb 180g  caster 1.5  eggs 3  tsp oil 40ml  buttermilk Dark Chocolate Ganache  450g dark chocolate,…

  • 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…