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Royal icing is not a sugar medium I work with every day, but it is a form of icing that I have always loved using on my cakes. Royal icing is incredibly versatile and an excellent medium for adding decorative elements to cakes and decorated cookies, whether these be piped pearls, decorative scrolls or piped […]
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I have been cake decorating for over 25 years and I’m still as passionate about my craft as I have always been, if not more so. I consider myself an artist whose medium happens to be sugar. I love what I do, it’s taken over my life, it’s what I live and breath. However, I […]
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I must admit that of all the summer fruit that grow in my garden, blackcurrants are probably my least favourite. I guess this is because I find them rather too sour to eat straight off my blackcurrant bushes, so unlike raspberries and redcurrants, there is no instant reward for picking them! Blackcurrants are abundant and plentiful right now and I […]
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I simply love using cake stencils on my cakes, so when asked to be a guest on the Cake Academy, a Create & Craft TV cake decorating programme, I could only say YES. Stencilling with coloured dust There are many different ways of using stencils to add patterns and decorations to cakes. Probably my favourite technique […]
Read MoreCake Masters recently published a multiple choice quiz in their monthly magazine, where they identified five different types of cake decorator. Always up for some light-hearted entrainment, I eagerly answered their questions to find out the results described me perfectly. I think that it is always important to try and understand people, so I have […]
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A dog-friendly birthday cake recipe, what exactly is one? I grew up watching Blue Peter (a BBC TV children’s Programme) where the presenters gave their dogs baked and decorated birthday cakes. It never occurred to me to find out how to do the same for my own dogs – until NOW!! Promotional project I have […]
Read MoreA beautiful hand-crafted bespoke wedding cake can be yours with good planning and careful budgeting. As with all aspects of your wedding, it’s a question of your priorities. I am a big fan of lists and suggest that it is a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the suppliers that are […]
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