On a recent trip to my parents home in Taupo, New Zealand, my mother took me to the most wonderful market. The Taupo Riverside Market is a weekly market held every Saturday morning. With a focus on bread, arts and crafts, free-range eggs, baking, second hand goods, Murray’s second hand books, clothing, carvings, Hugh’s hand made furniture, honey, flowers, coffee beans, photographs, natural beauty products… and so much more! A… Continue reading
Opalescent colour palette for mini cakes
June 4, 2011 By 7 Comments
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment” is a quote from Claude Monet, the founder of French impressionist painting, and yesterday I had to agree with him! I am sure many of you know that I love to use colour on my cakes, I like to try new combinations to see what I can create. So yesterday I set myself the challenge of using a colour palette that is… Continue reading
Wonky Cake Class – Dec 2010
December 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Wonky cake classes are one of our most popular workshops and Friday’s class was no exception, in fact we’ve never had such a long waiting list! Students travelled from far and wide, including one international student from Italy, many were familiar faces but we also welcomed some new students as well.
Wonky cakes, for many, are the ultimate cake challenge, not only does the cake shape have to be… Continue reading
Christmas 2010 mini cake class
December 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Lots of beautiful, delicate, white, sparkling snowflakes plus a scattering of stars were created at todays very festive Christmas mini cake workshop, aren’t they lovely. The snowflakes were created from pastillage – look carefully each one is different, just like the real ones!! The snowflake outlines are created using snowflake cutters and the patterns cut out with smaller cutters and piping tubes.
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Cake decorating in Italy – what I learnt!
October 20, 2010 By 9 Comments
My much look forward to teaching trip to Rome is now over, but all good things must come to an end! The students were all very keen to learn, cake decorating is relatively new in Italy, but as always it is not just the students who learn. Here are some of my observations and findings:
- Sugarcraft equipment is hard to find in Italy. Most students seemed to buy via the
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