Christmas cakes knocked off the top spot for must-have coporate Christmas gifts A GROWING number of companies are shunning the traditional fruit cake and instead choosing hand made gingerbread houses to give as thank you corporate christmas gifts to their clients this Christmas. Business owners are increasingly looking for something different and tasty that they can personalise …
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Rise in Companies Choosing Gingerbread Houses as Corporate Christmas Gifts
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The Naked Cakes Trend
This year has been our busiest so far for cakes without icing or so-called naked cakes. The trend shows no signs of abating with more and more couples opting for a natural looking cake laden with fresh summer fruits. And there are certainly many advantages to having them. Fresher as they are made literally the night before …
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Making the Perfect Christmas Cake Part 3 – Decoration
Okay so once you have got your cake covered in marzipan then the next step is covering it in fondant. Any supermarket fondant will do but you may prefer a particular brand. Knead it really well so it is nice and warm. Fondant contains glucose which warms with your hands as you knead it – …
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How to Make the Perfect Christmas Cake – Part One
IT IS less than two months to go until Christmas and if you haven’t done so already then now is the time to bake your Christmas cake. Get it in the oven now and then you will have at least six weeks to soak in plenty of brandy or whiskey, depending on which tipple …
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The Making of the Millennium Falcon Cake
We have done several Millennium Falcon cakes over the years – some for birthdays, the odd one for weddings – and it is quite clear the enthusiasm for Star Wars remains as strong as ever. As time has gone on we have perfected our techniques for producing Millennium Falcon cakes and after some trial and …
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Brighton and Hove Food Festival
We had an awesome weekend at the Brighton and Hove Food Festival over the Easter weekend with our wonderful Miss Millar’s Marvellous Mallows. To say they went down a storm would be an understatement. Everybody loved them!! In fact, they went down so well we sold out of all 2000 we had made and …
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What’s the Best Way to Eat a Marshmallow?
So how do you eat a marshmallow? This question has been plaguing me for a while now because each time I think I have cracked it I change my mind. Sometimes, especially when they are fresh, I enjoy pulling them right out of the packet or even before when the dusting of cornflour and icing …
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Graffiti Cakes
Graffiti art is as brilliant as it is subversive and has gained momentum in prominent years with works by the likes of Banksy popping up all over the place. Many of the buildings in the colourful North Laine of Brighton, where we are based, have their walls scrawled with beautiful and intricate artwork. Of course, …
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Wiston House Wedding Fair
Just a few days to go until we get the opportunity to showcase some awesome new wedding cake designs at Wiston House, near Steyning. Wiston House is a beautiful country home set in acres of the rolling South Downs. A sweeping driveway meanders through fields dotted with sheep and cattle, eventually leading you to the …
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