zebra cake

Zebra Cake

My sister is visiting this week and it is her birthday on Sunday. As a gift, I took her to get her first tattoo. I had to make a cake too. C’mon… I have been looking for an excuse to make this cake for ages. With the zebra cake, the humble marble cake gets a…

tips and tricks for cake decorating

New To Cake Decorating

This post is by no means an exhaustive list of tips, but if you are new to this, then hopefully it will start you on the right path. Contents 1 Basic Recipes 2 Basic Kit 3 Tips & Tricks Covering with Fondant Covering with Buttercream Covering with Ganach Covering with Royal Icing Do you love…

riddler cake

Riddler Cake

Just a quick post to share with you all the cake I made for a good friend whose birthday it is today. Happy Birthday Bob! For those interested, the cake was based on a picture sent to me by Bob’s better half. There are three layers of vanilla sponge sandwiched with buttercream, and carved into…

Loki Birthday Cake

A friend of mine and her daughter are big fans of Loki since watching The Avengers – but for entirely different reasons I expect. Personally, I am more of a Thor girl. Last month, my friend asked me if I would make her a Loki cake for her daughter’s 9th birthday. To construct this cake,…

Halloween Sandwich Cake

Halloween sandwich cake

The Pièce de résistance of this year’s Halloween buffet was a 3 layer sandwich cake, covered in smooth orange fondant, and decorated with a hand piped Halloween freeze in black royal icing. I used a standard victoria sponge recipe x 1.5. I split the batter into 3, then using a gel colourant dyed one layer black,…

Chocolate Explosion birthday cake

Some time ago, I saw an image of a birthday cake (I can’t remember where now sadly) and I have been longing for an excuse to re-create it in my own style. The cake basically was decorated with chocolate bars, but in a way that it looked like they were exploding from the cake. A…