How to Customise a Cake: Designs, Toppers & Personalised Messages
A practical guide to cake designs, toppers, flavours and personalised messages. For a fully commissioned design, see our bespoke cakes.
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The World of Anges
The World of Anges
Recipes, cake craft, commissions and honest notes from Reshmi Bennett’s kitchen.
The Truth about Children's Birthday Parties: My confessions
Last September, as our garden was filled with squealing seven-year-olds bouncing around in a bouncy castle, I stood with my lukewarm tea, trying to reassure myself this had...
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The Perfect Coffee Cake
A good coffee cake should actually taste of coffee. The trick is not to throw every possible coffee technique into one sponge, but to choose a method that...
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Matcha Cake Guide: Taste, Pairings & Baking Tips
Matcha Cake Guide: Taste, Pairings & Baking Tips Matcha in cake should taste recognisably of tea: green, gently bitter, savoury-umami and fragrant enough to survive sugar, fat and...
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The Great British Cake Tax Farce
In the UK, many cakes sold as food are zero-rated for VAT. But the wider rules for food and catering are nowhere near as simple as that.If there’s...
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Why Does England Love Lemon Drizzle Cake So Much?
Lemon drizzle is one of those cakes that feels completely at home beside a kettle: simple sponge, fresh citrus and a syrup or sugar topping added while the...
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The Perfect Chocolate Cake – It’s All About the Chocolate
If chocolate cake were a person, it would be that effortlessly cool, well-dressed friend who turns up to a dinner party, says something clever, and leaves everyone swooning....
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Custom Birthday Cakes in Farnham - Snail & the Whale
A portfolio case study: Custom Birthday Cakes in Farnham - Snail & the Whale. For current made-to-order designs, browse our birthday cake collection.
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What Makes a Vanilla Cake the Best – It's All About the Vanilla
Vanilla is often treated as the default cake flavour, which is unfair to an ingredient that takes an extraordinary amount of work to grow, pollinate and cure. A...
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The History of Birthday Cakes: Traditions, Rituals & How They Evolved
A history of birthday cakes, traditions and rituals. To see the cakes we make today, browse our birthday cake collection.
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What Makes a Great Pistachio Cake?
A baker’s guide to what pistachio cake should taste like, how pistachio cream and paste differ, and the flavour pairings that work best.
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How Social Media Ruined Cake
VIRALITY. Everyone and everything needs to go VIRAL. Because if it doesn’t go viral, is it even worth existing? This quest for internet fame has done a number...
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