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  • 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…

  • Star Wars Death Star Cake

    This Death Star Cake was such fun to make that you just won’t know when to stop! It is made of Dark Chocolate Mud Cake and filled and covered in Dark Chocolate Ganache then grey Sugar-paste. Use two 8.5″ or 9″ metal kitchen bowls to bake the cakes.   Dark Chocolate Mud Cake   Ingredients…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…