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Practical heatwave baking advice from Reshmi Bennett: bake early, pre-bake where possible, keep chocolate protected, use ice for buttercream and ganache, and know when not to turn the oven on at all.
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Bespoke Cakes London How To Commission A Bespoke Cake In London There is a particular kind of panic-buying that tends to happen around cakes. Someone remembers a birthday...
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A custom first birthday cake case study with pastel buttercream flowers, a hand-sculpted bunny, sugar-paste bees and vanilla Hero Sponge.
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I was ECSTATIC to hear from one of my favourite restaurants - Din Tai Fung. It was for creating a 1 year anniversary cake for their restaurant in...
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By the time you’re queuing for petrol station roses on the 13th of February, the battle is already lost. Valentine’s Day gifting has quietly undergone a revolution, and...
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Forget the Flowers! Why Britons Are Ditching Roses for Instagrammable Sponge Cakes This Valentine’s Day We spent a staggering £962 million on Valentine’s Day last year — and...
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A careful guide to alcohol remaining after baking, what Guinness cake contains and when an alcohol-free alternative is the sensible choice.
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By someone who has spent far too long watching people apologise with sponge There is a particular kind of silence that arrives at 8:47pm, the night before a...
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There are few modern shocks more unsettling than discovering that the humble chocolate bar — once a dependable, end-of-day comfort — has crept into luxury territory. The price...
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A practical comparison of Guinness Draught, Extra Stout and Guinness 0.0 for chocolate cake, without pretending that one can guarantee a particular crumb.
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What Guinness cake tastes like, why stout works with chocolate, the texture to expect and how the cake became associated with Irish celebrations.
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Cake Trends · 2026 Forecast The Top Cake Trends For 2026 Compiled with industry insight, hard-earned bakery experience and the latest signals we are seeing from customer behaviour,...
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