I’ve just calculated that its only 7 weeks until I start my trip down under to the 15th National Seminar of AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CAKE DECORATORS’ ASSOCIATION INC. at the Citigate Central Hotel, Thomas St, Sydney.  How exciting!

I’ve also just learnt that day passes are now available, so if you’d like to come and see me in action but a week away is simply… Continue reading

• In the process of designing Christmas cake for the cover of a new Dutch sugarcraft magaine, how bizarre when its so hot and humid right now! #
• Nearly there with the Autumn workshop programme, you’ll be able to book later today. Visit the classes page of my website in an hour or two! #
• It’s decorated cookie demo notes, on the agenda today

We’ve just launched our autumn workshop programme; details are on the classes page on our website. We hope you like our selection. I’m always being asked about covering ball cakes so I’ve added a new course to help you learn this useful skill. So how do you fancy joining me to create this Christmas bauble cake? I’m looking forward to it already!

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As part of the extras on my recently launched cake decorating DVDs , there is a small section where I have a chat with a wonderful wedding planner called Tammy Wilson. Tammy is an amazing person – I thought I was organised but now I know that to a few, like Tammy, it is an art at which they simply excel!

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Ummm who can resist a really good, moist chocolate cake? I’ve been experimenting with the Australian wedding favourite – mud cake. As many of you may know I am demonstrating at the National Cake Seminar in Sydney in August, so I thought a little background research would be good….. a great excuse to eat lots of chocolate!

I’ve tried three recipes – I’m aware that UK ingredients… Continue reading

• Visited the studio of a lady who creates beautiful lamp beads http://thebeadorchard.com/index.htm One day I’m going to have a go myself! #
• Strong silver plated jewellery wire for making cake crowns is back in stock http://bit.ly/VkTi0
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• Spent the morning at Athena cappuccino connections, made some great contacts – ladies business networking is so interesting and

 Friday’s introduction to celebration cakes workshop was a great success -”I’ve had the best time ever”, “I’ve absolutely loved it”, “I’ve learnt so much” were just some of the comments from the students as they departed. For most students, covering and decorating a cake was a completely new experience, so they had a lot to learn.

As you can see below, they all did really well. The morning was… Continue reading

What better way to celebrate the arrival of summer than by being creative with my new halter neck swimming costume cookie cutter. I’ve had a lot of fun experimenting with this new design, so here are a couple of decorated examples to inspire you!

• Had a great class of students today – they all seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves and they tell be they’ll be back for more…fantastic! #
• Off to teach a full class of students today. It’s a beginners cake decorating workshop, so it should be fun – no doubt they’ll learn loads! #
• New stock just arrived of our Wonky wedding cake cookie cutters

Friday’s cake jewellery class was all about learning new jewellery cake techniques. It was the first time I’d taught this particular class, based on new jewellery techniques demonstrated in my cake jewellery gems dvd. So both the students and I were learning but as you can see from the photos below, they all did really well.

During the day we concentrated on creating abstract flowers and cake jewellery… Continue reading