Fake Bakes Recipe - Tesco Victoria Sponge Cake
I knew Fake Bakes would be fun, but I didn’t expect it to become a full-blown movement. Apparently, tarting up supermarket cakes is the skill we never knew we...
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The World of Anges
Recipes, cake craft, commissions and honest notes from Reshmi Bennett’s kitchen.
Fake Bakes Recipe - Tesco Chocolate Malteser Cake
I really wanted to name this the "Polishing a Turd Series". The premise of this blog series being that I try to create the most stunning looking cake...
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Doughnut Cookie Cake Recipe
One of our most popular birthday cakes is our Doughnut Cookie Monster cake. Since its birth back in 2015, we’ve made *thousands* of them and delivered them all...
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Worst Cake Trends of All Time
There have been many crimes committed against cake. I’ve decided to gather them here in one tidy hall of shame — a public service, really — for anyone...
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Top Cake Trends 2022
Read The Latest Cake Trends Guide for 2024 here While 2021 may have been the hodge-podge in-pandemic-limbo year of brownie boxes, biscoff-this and biscoff-that, 2022 is already showing...
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Launching Our New Christmas Cake Collection on our 10 Year Anniversary
We blinked — or at least it feels like we did — and suddenly it’s been ten whole years. A full decade. Wild. Actually, that’s a lie. We...
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Beetlejuice Extravaganza: Crafting a Creepy-Cute Halloween Cake Delight
My favourite character to dress up as on Halloween is Beetlejuice. The black and white stripes, the wild green hair, the big purple eyes. Kooky, but not crass....
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Should Birthday Candles Be Banned in a Post-Pandemic World?
Explore the debate: Should birthday candles be banned for hygiene reasons? A unique perspective on traditions in a post-pandemic world. #OpinionPiece
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A Chocoholic's 40th Birthday Cake
What’s a chocoholic’s dream come true? A four-tiered, statuesque, Amazonian chocolate extravaganza with layer upon layer of Belgian sponge, all swaddled in generous lashings of Swiss meringue buttercream....
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Crafting Jungle Book Magic: Introducing our Jungle Book Themed Cake
I wouldn’t say this cake counts as a bare necessity. Looks-wise, it’s one of the simpler designs. Effort-wise, it was anything but. Here’s the Jungle Book cake if...
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Victoria Sponge and Homer Cakes 2.0
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism – Albert Einstein One of our very first birthday cake designs, created almost nine years ago, was our inspired-by-Homer Simpson...
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Under the Sea Bespoke Cake
Technical Bespoke Cake Case Study Designing a birthday cake for a two-year-old who adores every creature in the ocean is joyful. Designing one that also feeds sixty guests,...
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