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  • Bride and Groom Wedding Cookies Tutorial

      Simply the best wedding favours ever. These cute heart shaped Bride and Groom cookies are quite simple to make but can be quite time consuming so please leave yourself some extra time so that you don’t end up with a rushed job! The recipe below is for 24 heart shaped vanilla iced cookies each…

  • Abbey Monster High Cake Tutorial

    Below are the instructions on how to bake, decorate and hand paint this cute Abbey cake but first… …welcome to Monster High, the place where children of famous monsters rule the school! Abbey Bominable is 16 years old and the daughter of Yeti! She’s the coolest ghoul in the school and I love her trendy…

  • Pirate Ship Cake Tutorial

    I made this cake for Slade’s 1st birthday and his Mum didn’t want anything too scary so no skull and cross bones on this cake. It was fun to make the cake and like many of my cakes I didn’t have any idea how it would turn out and just made decisions as to style…

  • Draculaura Monster High Cake Tutorial

    Welcome to Monster High, the place where children of famous monsters rule the school! My favorite is Draculaura, Count Dracula’s daughter! She’s the coolest ghoul in the school and I love her trendy wardrobe and her scary cute pets, too. She is so popular that Amelia decided she would like a Draculaura cake on her…

  • Jawa Cake Tutorial

    This cake does not require any sugar paste which is excellent news for children who dislike sugar paste or the decorator who dislikes using sugar paste. The Chocolate ganache finish is a little rustic but suits our cheeky little Jawa well. There are no real instructions for sculpting this cake as I mostly used my…

  • Rainbow Cake

    This cake is similar to my Rainbow Layer Cake. Full instructions for making the Rainbow Layer Cake can be found here. I made this cake for Linda’s birthday.  Her husband secretly ordered it from me and I thought that such a romantic gesture wouldn’t be complete without some love hearts! It really is as simple…

  • How to make a Dr Who Tardis Cake

    The Tardis cake was on a black marble turntable and we hid it in the media room (no windows). Lochie was brought into the darkened room and someone swirled the cake around at speed while another person moved their hand rapidly up and down in front of a torch, creating a strobe effect while a…

  • 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…

  • 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…