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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…