to line your cake tin? We know that we need to choose and prepare the cake tin well in advance before making the mixture. My cake decorating instructor agreed BUT (always a but..) she said that you should only prepare the baking paper first – that means only cutting to size. Very interesting. According to …
Doing and learning it the hard way. The first time I used butter cream on a birthday cake, I made a real boo boo. There were crumbs all over… if only I had known about crumb coat. So what is crumb coat? It is a very thin layer of frosting that is applied to a …
Remember the 4 days affair cake with Belinda Jeffery? It kind of just made it for Valentine’s Day. I was very worried when the chocolate ganache turned out to be more runny that I expected. As far as I know when making a ganache, it would be one part chocolate to two parts cream. Anyway, …
Well, actually it is for a birthday, it just happens that it falls on Valentine’s Day. I chose to make the “Apricot and Pecan White Christmas Cake” a recipe (recipe by Beverley Sutherland Smith in Maureen McKeon’s “Crave a passion for chocolate” cook book) because birthday boy loves fruit cake and chocolates. So this cake …