The great British baking revival continues apace in 2013 with more and more people making cakes than ever before. With so much renewed interest in baking comes a renewed interest in taste as well. Lovely though it is the traditional Victoria sponge with lashings of jam and vanilla buttercream has some serious competition from more …
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Flavour Trends for 2013
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Would this cake make you get better quicker?
My other half asked me to make a get well soon cake for a friend who has been ill for a several months. He was expecting a basic round sponge with a straight forward get well soon message piped across the top. Well, at Pink Rose Cakes we don’t like to do things by halves …
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Wedding Cake at Stanmer House
Last month I had the honour of delivering and setting up a beautiful cake at Stanmer House in Brighton for Emma and Robin Reed. The cake was three tiers of different flavours, including raspberry and white chocolate, vanilla and light chocolate cake. It was then covered in a white chocolate paste and then decorated with …
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Celebration Generation – Evil Cake Overlord is a Must Read
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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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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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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