Given I don’t seem to have a particular fondness for cupcakes I seem to be making and blogging a lot about them at the moment. I’ve been busy teaching recently and cupcakes are the perfect medium to teach basic cake decorating techniques. They are small, quick and easy to make. There’s something I love about …
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There’s no denying we’re a bunch of science geeks here. Hubs does the physics & engineering and me the biology. We’ll gloss over who does the chemistry because unless it is about baking I’m rubbish at it. I have no shame in saying Alice Roberts in my idol. You can never take the geek out …
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We all have ingredients we can’t do without. The ingredient that appears in nearly all the dishes we make and our cupboards are full of its variants. For me,and probably a great deal of the population, it is salt. Fish & chips are not the same without the salty tang and bread made without salt is …
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I first found out about Cake International a few years ago and have wanted to visit ever since. The Birmingham show is the longest running and features entrants from all over the world in the cake decorating categories. This is a show all about hard-core cake decorating and sugarcraft. Not for the faint hearted who don’t like …
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This is a case of two classes one cake. It may have been half term in these neck of the woods last week, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t busy. If anything the scale of the commitments meant I was busier. A business meeting at a stunning private estate about something exciting coming to East Midlands in …
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Going to Clandestine Cake Club does strange things to me. It makes me have weird ideas for cakes. In October 2012 Derby CCC celebrated its 1st birthday and the theme was travel. As I had spent some time living in Berlin I decided to go a German cake. First cake to come to mind was …
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This isn’t a fancy birthday birthday cake, just a simple colour flecked sponge with a good dose of chocolate. Given it was my sister’s last birthday before the big three-zero I decided she needed a colourful cake, reminiscent of the birthday cakes we used to have as children that were magically conjured from under a large Tupperware box . …
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