If you are a pug-lover then these cakes are for you!
Do you love pugs? Are these flat faced wrinkly wonders your favourite dog ever? Do you dream of owning one someday or are you lucky enough to be owned by one right now? Do you play second place to someone elses pug, ever the under dog to the pug in their life? Pugs...
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[How To] Paint A Poppy Using Cocoabutter – A Tutorial
Cocoa butter is an amazing, versatile edible product with seemingly magic properties. As soon as you warm it, it melts into the most fabulous clear oil, yet remove the heat source and it almost instantly sets back into a solid state. Mix with edible dusts and you have...
What do you get when you mix hyper-realistic cakes with a computer (CGI) whizz!?
Talk about a collaboration made in heaven! So – what happens when you mix a hyper-realistic cakes made by me with YouTube sensation all-star influencer Brandon Baum? You get ‘The weirdest video you’ll see today!!’ That’s what. And...
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[Business Mindset] If you are exhausted, so is your business…
A few years ago I delivered a cake to a friend’s little boy’s birthday party. I created an epic pirate ship being wrestled into the depth by a giant purple kraken! I created the cake as a favour because our boys had been friends since we met on the maternity suite. I...
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[Business Development] Scaling Up…
Do you often look at small businesses and genuinely wonder, “how do they do it all?” – well, the likelihood is, they don’t. Calling in help and support to your business to get you to the next level isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity....
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[How To] Create textures!
Free texture hacks just for you.… One of the biggest challenges we face as cake artists is replicating real world textures in cake form. It really does make the difference between something looking like a nice cake version of whatever it is you are trying to...
Easter Cakes don’t come any cuter than this…
With Easter on the horizon all thoughts are turning to what cake to do for our Easter treats table!
Springing into Spring
There’s definitely a change in the air; a few warmer afternoons, a few bright sunshine mornings to lift our spirits – as we edge away from the start of the year and the days stretch longer I think we’re all finding joy and smiling at the those...
The gravity-defying Sculpted Bronze Horse Cake
Teaching LIVE online classes has totally changed my way of working in the last 12 months. I had no idea of the impact it would have on students all around the world being able to learn skills like this when they can’t get to face to face classes because of...
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[Getting To Know You] Meet Cassie Brown
When I first walked the all-hallowed pink carpets of Cake International back in 2012, Cassie Brown was one of the big household names; she had her own products, her own airbrush and her own big shiny branded stand. Almost everyone I met had a ‘Cassie Brown’ airbrush...