Expert Advice to Bake & Decorate a Perfect Cake

Welcome to all cake bakers and cake lovers! We want to inspire you to bake and help you bake better. Our site is full of tips and recipes, so if you're wondering why your cake sank, which types of tin to buy, or how to create an authentic cream tea, then we are here to help. If you run a cake making business or want to start one up, we have lots of expert cake business advice right here - and our gadgets, the CakeUlator and CakeOmeter will be sure to bowl you over.

Spun Sugar Techniques for Cakes

Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest effect and spun sugar is just such a technique. The recipe is simple but the appearance of well-constructed spun sugar forms is magical and gravity-defying. Spun Sugar Tips and Hints There’s nothing easier than making the syrup for spun sugar work, but …

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Cake Decorating With Edible Gold Leaf

Edible gold leaf has a long and decadent history – it’s not known which was the earliest culture to indulge in eating gold, but as soon as any society learned to beat gold thinly enough to make gold leaf, you can probably bet that they ate food coated with a …

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Special Effects: Wood or Marble Effect Fondant Icing

These two special effect icings look best on a square single tier cake, where their subtle detailing can be seen without distractions. They also look good if you cut them into circles and lay them over cupcakes that have had their tops levelled. For wood effect icing you need: Ingredients …

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Bright Coloured Buttercream (facebook Question)

Buttercream icing is one of the most common ways to ice and decorate your cake and it gives a great effect as well as tasting yummy. Buttercream icing is not only used as a topping but also as a filling and to crumb coat cakes before fondant icing is applied. …

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Cupcake FAQ

Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes…people can’t get enough of their cakey goodness at the moment, us included! So how do you create the perfect cupcake? I hear you say… Well bakers, no more will your cases peel from the cake, no longer will you shed a tear at your unproportionately sized cupcake, …

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CakeOmeter – App Demonstrator

So, you don’t own the correct sized tin for your recipe? Maybe you’ve seen a recipe but wanted to make it on a smaller or larger scale? Problem solved!! CakeBaker, the expert in Baking Apps has come up with a brand new, nifty little App…introducing THE CAKEOMETER+ now available from …

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Portion Size and Fondant Covering Chart

Portions and Fondant Covering at a Glance Have you ever wondered how many portions you can get from a 8″ round, or what size of cake you need for 20 kids at a birthday party? Well now you can see at a glance! This handy guide will show you pretty …

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The CakeUlator Cake Costing App

Simplify pricing and quoting The CakeUlator is a must for anyone who has a cake making business or who simply wants cake costing/budgeting help. If you don’t include cooking time, preparation time, decorating time and even shopping time in your costs you’re probably not selling your cakes at the right …

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CakeOmeter: Convert Baking Tin Sizes

  #t#     The CakeOmeter Making baking tin conversion a breeze! Existing Recipe Ingredient 1: Quantity: eachmllitrefl/ozpintquartcupteaspoontablespoongramkgozlbX Add Ingredient Existing Baking Tin Type: Round Square Diameter: Height: Width: Length: Height: cminches New Baking Tin (scaled times) Type: Round Square Diameter: Height: Width: Length: Height: cminches New Recipe Your new …

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Cake Baker Fan Badge

Many of you cake bakers are starting to meet up at cake shows and events and have mentioned that you’d like to be able to identify yourselves as Cake Baker fans (and recognise each other too!). To help you pick each other out from the crowd we have designed some …

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