Yesterday I took the main cake jewellery cakes from my cake jewellery gems DVD  to be professionally photographed. It was such a lovely day that we decided to create a lifestyle shot of one of the cakes and enjoy the sunshine at the same time….lovely!  Getting set up always takes ages. Here is Vicki in action, ascertaining the best angle to shoot from.

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Well at long last I’ve found a few spare hours to add my exciting new sugarcraft cutters to our online shop. The cutters were all designed to help me decorate the new cakes that will appear in my DVD’s shortly. I’ve loved using them so I hope you find them inspirational too.

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My wonky style cake classes have always been very popular; they are also ones of my favourite classes to teach. Students arrive not really knowing what to expect and go home having learnt not only how to carve and cover my signature style cakes but also armed with lots of tips and ideas to  help them decorate their own cakes. Friday’s class was no exception; as usual we had a… Continue reading

I love using patchwork cutters to help me decorate my cakes;  they are so easy and effective. I have used the clematis cutter on one of the demonstration cakes in my ‘Cake Jewellery Gems’ DVD. I think it works really well and is so simple.

As followers of colour trends will know, mango and raspberry are one of this seasons colour combinations, so I was delighted today to find that our wholesaler has a new bullion wire colour called raspberry – what fun!

Raspberry Bullion Wire with fuchsia behind

I know many of you enjoy using my stainless steel sugarcraft cutters, however if you are a little unsure on the best way to achieve perfect results each time then here are a few tips that you may find useful:

The pastes to use

• Only use modelling paste, pastillage or flower paste to cut out the flowers – you need a firm paste

Sugarpaste, also referred to as rolled fondant or ready roll icing,  is available from supermarkets and cake decorating suppliers in many countries of the world. However not everyone likes what is available to them and many countries new to the craft of cake decorating do no have a ready source of sugarpaste, so I’m often asked how is it made.

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How exciting – I’ve just seen the rough cut of my cake jewellery DVD! The film company say it’s   “…..a bit like offering a taste of a cake before its even half cooked” but who doesn’t like raw cake mixture?  I certainly have enjoyed seeing the ‘half baked’ DVD – just me in action, no graphics, music or cake close ups! It’s been very reassuring to… Continue reading

I’m very pleased to announce that both my wonky cake and cake jewellery DVD’s are now available to pre-order.  As regular readers of this blog will know, filming was very successful, see previous posts for details. I’m now told by the production company that the 19 hours of tape that the 3 camera shot has been digitised, so it’s now onto the creative and exciting process of editing……I

From all the fabulous comments and feedback that I received I know that many of you really enjoy my ‘bake me I’m yours….cookie’ book. It was a book I thoroughly enjoyed creating and I’ve still got the decorated cookie bug!  I’ve found decorated cookies make excellent small gifts….. what I do, is make a batch of different shapes