Beautiful Buttercream Flower Wedding Cakes
Let’s be honest: wedding cakes are a statement. Fresh flowers can look beautiful on a cake, but they are not automatically edible or suitable for direct food contact:...
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The World of Anges
The World of Anges
Recipes, cake craft, commissions and honest notes from Reshmi Bennett’s kitchen.
Top 10 Most Popular Cake Trends for 2025
Archive note: This was our November 2024 outlook for the cake trends we expected to shape 2025. Sales, retailer examples and popularity comments below describe that period rather...
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How much is too much to pay for a slice of cake?
Archive note: This article records a pricing debate from 2024. Prices, menus and businesses mentioned below may have changed since publication, so figures are retained as historical context...
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Our Most Difficult Cake Customer
The Cake Maker's Most Difficult Customer: X-Ray's Themed Cakes Each year, I take on the most challenging bespoke cake commission from our most difficult customer. His cake briefs...
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Custom Bumblebee Birthday Cake Delivered Across London & Surrey
A portfolio case study: Custom Bumblebee Birthday Cake Delivered Across London & Surrey. For current made-to-order designs, browse our birthday cake collection.
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Can you decorate cakes with plastic toys?
Short answer: Ordinary plastic toys should not automatically be treated as suitable for direct contact with cake. Food-contact materials used commercially need to be suitable for their intended...
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Burn-Away Cakes: The Hottest Cake Trend in London
Archive · Burn-Away Cake Trend Burn-Away Cakes: The Edible Reveal With A Flame Archive note: This article records the burn-away trend as it took off in 2024. Burn-away...
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How Expensive is Baking a Birthday Cake from Scratch
How much does it cost to bake a birthday cake from scratch? The honest answer changes with supermarket prices, your energy tariff, the equipment you already own and...
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Top Cake Trends of 2024
Archive · 2024 Forecast Top Cake Trends of 2024: What We Predicted Archive note: This article was written at the end of 2023 as our forecast for 2024....
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Why are Birthday Cakes Expensive? That's the wrong question!
Affordable birthday cake options explored.
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New Kid's Cookbook! Penelope and the Flying Power-Packed Pizzas
Archive note — 15 September 2026: This post records the October 2023 launch of the sixth StoryBakes title. We have kept the first-person story intact as part of...
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A Cake for Munroe
Archive note, September 2026: This article was first published in March 2023, during a very public debate about influencer requests, social media and small businesses. It is preserved...
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