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Easter Chick Cake Tutorial
Read More: Easter Chick Cake TutorialWith Easter only a few weeks away I really wanted to create another Easter inspired cake for this weeks video tutorial. So following my bunny rabbit cake, I thought I would stick with a character theme, and create this cute Easter chick cake. Below I have created a step by step video showing the whole…
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Chocolate Cupcakes & Chocolate Buttercream Recipe
Read More: Chocolate Cupcakes & Chocolate Buttercream RecipeWhen it comes the baking and decorating cakes you all probably know by now, I love to make cupcakes. I think it’s so important to have a good cupcake recipe that you can rely on every time to create the perfect soft sponges, that melt in your mouth. A few months ago I shared with…
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How to make a Bunny Rabbit Cake Tutorial
Read More: How to make a Bunny Rabbit Cake TutorialOver the past year Instagram and Facebook seemed filled with beautiful photos of the ever popular unicorn cake, and with Easter just around the corner I thought I would make my own bunny version. So instead of the unicorn horn, this has been replaced with 2 bunny ears along with the bunny nose on the…
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Russian Flower Piping Tips – Piping Techniques #3
Read More: Russian Flower Piping Tips – Piping Techniques #3One of my favourite things is finding new piping tips to use when piping my cupcakes, as I think the perfect nozzle can transform your buttercream into something beautiful. The Russian piping tips are a great way to pipe flowers and decorative designs very easily (although I have found a lot of practice and patience…
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Gumpaste Hibiscus Flower Tutorial
Read More: Gumpaste Hibiscus Flower TutorialThis week the weather has been pretty cold and miserable where I live in the UK, so I really wanted to create a tutorial to remind me of warmer climates. So for this weeks video tutorial I have created a step by step guide for how to make a hibiscus flower. I think these flowers…
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How to Prepare and Cover a Cake with Icing / Fondant
Read More: How to Prepare and Cover a Cake with Icing / FondantFor me one of the most important things when it comes to making cakes is making sure you have a well covered cake as a base to add your design. Now I usually refer to it as icing, but icing is exactly the same as fondant or sugarpaste, and I just love seeing icing covered…
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Mini Rose Flower Bouquet Cupcakes – Piping Techniques Tutorial
Read More: Mini Rose Flower Bouquet Cupcakes – Piping Techniques TutorialNow I realise that lately everything has been about Christmas baking and Christmas tutorials, so I really wanted to create a, pretty, all year round tutorial for this weeks video. So this week its all about cupcakes, and I have to admit I am in love with these mini rose flower cupcakes. They are based…
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Gumpaste Present / Gift Bow Tutorial
Read More: Gumpaste Present / Gift Bow TutorialI have been so excited to share this cake with you. When it comes to Christmas and birthdays I love wrapping presents and always stick on the foil gift bows. This cake is made to look just like that. I have also created a video tutorial which shows exactly how to make the bow ontop,…
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Handmade Christmas Cookie Gifts
Read More: Handmade Christmas Cookie GiftsWith 3 weeks to go until Christmas, its the perfect time to create some homemade gifts, to give to your friends and family? Every year I make a batch of these chocolate chip cookies and decorate them to look like Christmas puddings. Using royal icing, I then pipe the name of the person I’m given…
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Christmas Penguin Cake Topper Tutorial
Read More: Christmas Penguin Cake Topper TutorialThis time of year I’m often wondering how to decorate my Christmas cakes, so I thought I would create a video tutorial showing you how to make some cute, fun Christmas penguins to add to the top of your own cakes. In the video I show you how to make 2 different penguins, one with…
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Christmas Gift Ideas!
Read More: Christmas Gift Ideas!Now I love Christmas, but I have to admit I always struggle with what to get my family. A week before Christmas you will usually find me adding items to my Amazon basket and hoping Prime will get these to me on time. So with a month to go I thought I would put together…
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Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cupcakes
Read More: Christmas Pudding Chocolate CupcakesAre you already thinking about your Christmas baking and looking for some festive ideas? Well how about these simple Christmas pudding cupcakes. I love how these cupcakes look and if I’m really honest I much prefer a chocolate cupcake to real Christmas pudding! To make these I baked chocolate cupcakes in these brown muffin cakes.…
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