Things have been a little quiet on the cake front lately, it always is at this time of year with brides still tending to favour the warmer months. Sooooo, I have been experimenting with lots of new recipes and hopefully will be adding new flavours to the site shortly. In the meantime, whilst not strictly …
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Fabulous Chocolate Brownie Cake Recipe
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Car Cakes and Back to the Future!
It seems everyone wants car cakes at the moment. First a Honda Civic for a 30th birthday and then a Delorean a la Back to the Future complete with Marty McFly and the Doc. They both turned out really cool and the recipients really loved them. I wonder what Michael J fox would make of …
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Another Fabulous Wedding Photographer
I recently did a beautiful summer wedding cake which was all white with just a little bit of pearl lustre dust on it and it looked lovely. The photographer at the wedding, Christine Lee-Hawkins took some beautiful pix of it and here are the results below Not only are her pictures beautiful but she was …
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New Pictures and Stanmer House Wedding Fair
Hurrah! I have finally managed to put some new pictures on Facebook (search under Pink Rose Cakes) at least and soon they will be appearing on Pink Rose Cakes website proper. There are whole range of cakes from the summer season and then a whole set of professional pictures taken by the lovely Becky Tosney. …
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The Search for the Perfect Macaron
I am currently spending my days, apart from getting used to the relentlessness of the school run, attempting to make macarons like the French do. I have deliberately spelt it as you would find in France in hommage to these perfectly formed, but devilishly hard to make shiny domes of almond meringue. I may have …
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Great sweet treat recipe for allergy sufferers
Because I recently discovered that not only is my daughter severely allergic to certain nuts but is also allergic to dairy I have been trying my hand at all sorts of different free-from recipes. Some have been highly successful such as soya scotch pancakes which, I think, are nicer than normal ones, whilst some have …
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New cake pix!
It seems like an age since I last posted on here but finally I have a few new pictures to put up. They were taken by the very talented Becky Tosney and showcase some of my more avant gard cakes. If I had my way I would be making these sort of things all the time …
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Austin 7 Cake
And the winner of most challenging cake of the week goes to….. This isn’t the greatest picture in the world, taken with my new iphone which, being technically incompetent, is taking me a while to get used to. However, this cake, which turned out lovely in the end took me hours to make. The wheels …
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Fab Cake Photos from Paul Fletcher
I recently made a wedding cake for the lovely Laura Gooch and her husband Richard. Laura and I worked together a while back when I wrote the Brighton Argus’ Property and Interiors Guide – she subbed it, basically turning my words and pictures into lovely magazine articles. Thankfully she and Richard loved my cake too, …
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Cake-burning marathons and Food Allergies
Greetings from Pink Rose HQ! Okay, so I know it has been a while since I posted on here but in my defence an awful lot has happened lately which has kept me occupied. One of these things being running the first ever Brighton marathon which I managed in 4hrs 22mins. The atmosphere was amazing …
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