Classic vanilla cupcakes with beautiful light swiss meringue buttercream. Yum!
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We’ve tested out a few sugar cookie recipes to find the ones we think hold their shape and taste the best, these ones win by far!
These cookies are a great activity for the kids! Another way to fill a day during the summer holidays.
Why Temper Chocolate?
Tempering Chocolate ensures that it has a shine and a crisp ‘snap’, chocolate which has not been tempered tends to be dull, soft and easily melts in your fingers.
Chocolate Transfer Sheets are a dynamic, easy to use medium and are great for giving your chocolates a professional, stylish finish. They are also versatile and can be used to create beautiful decorations for cakes and cookies.
Making these Coffee Shop Style Muffins cannot be simpler using our fabulous Muffin Wrappers.
Delicious chocolatey treats!
These stunning fluted baskets can be easily made using the Medium Fluted Basket Chocolate Mould.
Some fun facts about chocolate!
These stunning cookies are very simple to make and you can easily achieve professional looking results in no time.
Chocolate can be temperamental and needs to be handled correctly in order to get the best results.
If you’re decorating a cake and covering it with sugarpaste or rolled fondant and you’re wondering “how much sugarpaste do I need to cover a cake?” then the table below will show you how much sugarpaste you’ll need. Use this handy guide to help you cover your cake successfully.
For more information on working with Sugarpaste please see How to use Sugarpaste.
Cake decorating can be great fun, read our tips for making novelty cakes to help you gain an insight.
There are many different icings that can be used when cake decorating, sugarpaste is popular for its versatility. It can be shaped, moulded, modelled, smoothed, textured, imprinted, coloured… Here’s my tips for working with sugarpaste to get great results every time.
This traditional easter simnel cake recipe is rich in fruit, spices and marzipan. Its consumption signifies the end of Lent. It is a symbolic cake, with marzipan balls representing the disciples, and, in some instances, an extra marzipan ball in the centre of the cake represents Christ too.
Let’s start with the topping (no, it’s not an upside down cake, it’s just nice to get this part done first!):
Let’s start with the topping (no, it’s not an upside down cake, it’s just nice to get this part done first!):
This sweet, rich cream cheese icing recipe is perfect for decorating Carrot Cakes and can also be a delicious topping for cupcakes too!
Need your fix? Ever considered getting it in cake form?
Hah! Got you! Well…some of you, anyway. Don’t worry – it’s the cola variety I’m talking about.This Chocolate Coke Cake recipe was popular in the eighties, and so, as it is with fashion, cakes can make a come-back too.
It may sound a bit weird, but it’s an easy cake with a retro feel. Give it a bash!
Hah! Got you! Well…some of you, anyway. Don’t worry – it’s the cola variety I’m talking about.This Chocolate Coke Cake recipe was popular in the eighties, and so, as it is with fashion, cakes can make a come-back too.
It may sound a bit weird, but it’s an easy cake with a retro feel. Give it a bash!
When it comes to something as traditional as Christmas cake, short cuts aren’t recommended. The trick to preparing this ultra-moist Christmas cake is patience (a virtue, I hear). It must be made over two days (yes, you read right).
The first day will allow the fruit to become totally tipsy (and what would a Christmas cake be if not tipsy)! The second day will see to the actual baking. It’s worth the wait, so seeing as Christmas isn’t exactly sprung upon us every year without fair warning, plan ahead and try this two-day baking adventure…you won’t regret it!
The first day will allow the fruit to become totally tipsy (and what would a Christmas cake be if not tipsy)! The second day will see to the actual baking. It’s worth the wait, so seeing as Christmas isn’t exactly sprung upon us every year without fair warning, plan ahead and try this two-day baking adventure…you won’t regret it!
Don’t be scared to attempt a layered chocolate fudge cake with this recipe – it’s not as difficult as it looks. Plus, as a huge bonus, your guests will think you’ve become a master baker! This is the kind of chocolate fudge cake recipe that screams: “I’m a proper cake, layered and iced and everything…and with chocolate in every layer, how can you resist me?”
No, not Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. Chocolate and Coffee. Two of the best indulgences ever. World renowned and, indeed, worshipped.
Now, whilst many people claim to have the ‘best’ Chocolate and Coffee Cake Recipe, those that exclude coffee are already pipped at the post. The chocolate-coffee combination is truly wonderfully rich and joyful – a match made in heaven.
With that, I give you the recipe for an old friendship…
Now, whilst many people claim to have the ‘best’ Chocolate and Coffee Cake Recipe, those that exclude coffee are already pipped at the post. The chocolate-coffee combination is truly wonderfully rich and joyful – a match made in heaven.
With that, I give you the recipe for an old friendship…