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Biscuits for Decorating – Non Spreading, No Chilling Required!

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This is a great biscuit recipe, one that doesn’t need chilling and barely spreads.

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How to Make Yorkshire Puddings

Yorkshire Pudding

A few weeks ago I asked Facebook for some help due to the fact that I always have Yorkshire Pudding fail – you came up with recipes and tips by the bucket load and in response I bored you to tears with photos of each batch I created.  

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Posted in How To, Savoury | 19 Comments

How to Make Danish Pastry

How to make Danish Pastry – useful for all sorts of treats!

Ingredients:

350g strong white flour

40g caster sugar

1 1/2  tsp dried fast action yeast

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How to Make Savoury Shortcrust Pastry

 

A lot of people have a bit of a block when it comes to pastry, some folks are adamant that they just can’t make it.  It is in fact one of the simplest things to make and the addition of an egg yolk not only gives the pastry a great taste it somehow magically makes the pastry more flexible, less likely to split and crack and prevents it from being overworked as quickly.

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Posted in How To, Pastry, Savoury | 15 Comments

How to Make Honeycomb

It’s called lots of things – honeycomb, hokey-pokey, sponge candy – whatever you call it it’s the stuff that’s inside a Crunchie, and I often get requests for this recipe.  Very quick and easy to make and a perfect bonfire night treat.

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Posted in Bonfire Night, How To, Treats | 43 Comments

Making a Bow Topper and Ribbon Tails

I thought it would be useful to show you how to make an oversized bow topper and tails for a cake.  It needs a bit of forward planning for the drying out stage but looks super impressive, especially on a tiered cake.  

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Posted in Decorating, How To, Sugarpaste | 3 Comments

How to use Sugarveil Sheets

The possibilities are endless.  Here are my tips for cutting, working and applying sugarveil to your cakes.

So you now have a sheet of Sugarveil and you want to use it on a cake.

Plan out your design, for simplicity I’m wrapping the collar of a cake with Sugarveil.

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Sugarveil – A How To… Part 1

I promised you a Sugarveil how to back in June when I used it for my Sister’s Wedding Cake. So here it is….

Sugarveil is an edible icing product that starts out liquid and using a special mat you can form flexible edible sheets of icing lace in various designs.

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Sugarveil – A How To… Part 2

Removing from the Mat

First up lay a sheet of non-stick baking paper just over twice the size of the mat on the worksurface.  I have done it directly onto the worktop which resulted in the sheet sticking to it like glue,  after all that hard work you don’t need that!

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How to Scale Up a Cake Recipe

Not a recipe today after all the wedding cake antics I have a lot of catching up to do!

A question I get asked a lot is how to change a recipe to bake it in a bigger or different sized tin.

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Posted in Cake, Decorating, How To, Ruth's Chat, Sugarpaste, Wedding | 56 Comments