I find my cake inspiration all over the place and on both sides of the Atlantic, drawing from a wealth of blogs, books and video clips. It isn’t often that I actually want to shout about a book though but Evil Cake Overlord by Marie Porter at Celebration Generation is definitely worth a mention. I …
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Celebration Generation – Evil Cake Overlord is a Must Read
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Wedding Fair and Wedding Cake Flowers
I saw lots of brides at Brighton Raceourse Wedding Fair on Sunday and was delighted to be able to showcase some new cake designs. They range from unashamedly romantic to bright and unusual including my first ever tattoo-style cake – a black and white cake with red hearts airbrushed onto the side to give a …
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Latest Cake Designs
Here at Pink Rose Cakes we have been coming up with a few new designs ready for the coming year. They are a little more muted and whimsical than normal, using soft colours and sugar flowers but we like them just the same! More cakes to follow in the coming days…. One or two of …
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Writing Desk Cake
I am a great believer that when it comes to doing cakes that look like other objects they should look as realistic as humanly possible. This cake was for a lovely gentleman celebrating his 80th birthday with family and friends and he wanted to be able to include all their names and have some sort …
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BMW mini 21st birthday cake
This cake was made for a family celebrating their daughter’s 21st birthday and had to be a convertible mini, incorporating shopping, nursing, a cat, an iphone, a bottle of vodka, graduation, London and Brighton and Tinkerbell, phew! Quite a lot to begin with then, not to mention the difficulty of making an edible windscreen… Anyhoooooo …
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Wedding Cake Toppers
For some time I have been making figurines out of sugar or non-toxic modelling clay for people’s weddings. This latest couple was one of my favourites. She is a doctor, he is an English teacher with a an allotment and a love of gardening. It took a fair few hours to get the figurines made …
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Wonky Wedding Cake
I was privileged enough to be able to make the cake for friends Mark and Camilla Foyle when they got married this weekend. They wanted something fun, bright and different and this is what they got…. It was five tier of very different cake, made wonky by inserting specially cut polystyrene wedges in between and …
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Recipe of the Month – February
A bit later than I had planned to do this and in actual fact I am putting up two recipes this month. The first is the almond and amaretto cake I had always planned and the second is frangipane which someone has asked me for so here goes! Almond and Amaretto – for a 6″ …
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Chocolate Fountains
Just a quick post today – more recipes coming this week though – about a lovely chocolate fountain supplier based in Hampshire. www.hotchocolates.co.uk supply wonderfully decadent chocolate fountain into which you can dip strawberries, raspberries and all sorts of other fruits not to mention marshmallows, mini donuts, profiteroles, TurkishDelight and fudge to name a few. …
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Recipe of the Month – January
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the festive period. As part of Pink Rose’s Plans for cake domination in 2011 we will be publishing a favourite recipe each month from now on. Now they may be cake ones or they may not but they will all be …
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