A 1-minute frosting in 5 flavours for your cakes and cupcakes! How awesome is that? It can’t get any easier and faster than this to make your delicious frosting, and with only 3 ingredients. Also, it’s a great frosting if you’re not a fan of buttercream as it uses mascarpone cheese as the main ingredient. […]
How to Make a Lady Hat Cake Topper or Cake
I made this Lady Hat Cake Topper for my Lady with a Hat birthday cake. It’s a simple but elegant hat made out of cake, covered with gum paste and decorated with fresh flowers. The hat brim should be at least 5 cm (2 inches) more in diameter than the cake you are making this […]
How to Transfer an Image to Fondant/Gum Paste without an Edible Printer
If you bake and decorate cakes for your family and friends most likely you don’t have an edible printer or an inkjet printer with edible ink and edible image transfer sheets / wafer paper. In this post I’ll teach you how to transfer an image to fondant/gum paste without an edible printer. You will be […]
Perfectly Moist Chocolate Cupcakes / Cakes
These Perfectly Moist Chocolate Cupcakes are my favourite cupcakes! They are moist and light and have a great taste. You can use the batter to make cupcakes or cakes. I usually make bigger cupcake batches. I freeze some of the baked cupcakes so that I always have them handy for a quick dessert. Also, I […]
1-Minute Frosting for Cakes & Cupcakes
A 1-minute frosting recipe for your cakes and cupcakes! How awesome is that? It can’t get any easier and faster than this to make your delicious frosting, and with only 3 ingredients! Also, it’s a great frosting if you’re not a fan of buttercream as it uses mascarpone cheese as the main ingredient. The key […]
How to Make Chocolate Balls / Spheres
If you’re trying to learn how to make chocolate balls / spheres to decorate your cakes, I’ve got the easiest way to show you. I have both half-sphere silicone molds and full sphere ones and, in my opinion, using the full sphere molds below plus the method I’m presenting is the easiest way to make […]
Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Frosting (1:1:1)
This chocolate ganache buttercream frosting is great for covering cakes or piping details. The recipe is extremely easy! No matter how much you want to make, the ratio of white chocolate to whipping cream to butter is always the same 1:1:1. The ingredients below are for covering an 8-inch cake. Ingredients 200 g white chocolate […]
Chocolate Ganache Ratios
You can find in this post all you need to know about chocolate ganache ratios for fillings and frostings. Chocolate ganaches are so delicious, easy to make and can be used in so many ways to fill, frost or decorate cakes. You can use the ratios below as a general rule to make whatever amount […]
Triple Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients for a 12’’-14’’ round cake: White chocolate layer: 500 ml (2 cups) whipping cream, divided 200 g (1 1/5 cups or 7.5 oz) white chocolate chips or grated chocolate 10 g (1.5 pouches) unflavoured gelatin, softened in 120 ml water
