Featured Project
A New Way To Stencil! Shabby chic to vintage wallpaper & marbling effects
Discover a new way to add ‘on trend’ patterns to your cakes using these new Visit the store flexible mesh stencils. There are currently three designs including a vertical line design, pretty floral pattern and a watersplash design which can be used to create a marbling effect.
Cake decorating project sheets
We hope you enjoy our fully illustrated project sheets / tutorials. There are two sections to choose from:
- Cake decorating know how
- Fun projects & recipes
Fabulous ideas to keep children and adults busy for hours
These project sheets are best viewed in Adobe Reader.
Cake Decorating Know-How
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View the PDF »Working With Hexagonal Cake Tins
Baking a hexagonal cake? Make sure you choose the correct cake board and box with this handy download.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Strawberry Cake!
We made this scrumptious strawberry cake to bring a little summer warmth to the cold winter months, and now you can make it too. It’s vibrant, fun, moreish, and very easy on the eye!
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View the PDF »Red and Rose Gold Heart Cake
We created this vibrant red and rose gold ‘Queen of Hearts’ inspired cake for Valentine’s this year using edible lace. This cake will be adored by your loved ones on Valentine’s Day, or you could feature it as a centrepiece at an Alice in Wonderland themed party!
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View the PDF »How To Make Summer Bird House Cake
We love Fmm’s ‘More Than A Bird House’ cutter set and so have created this pretty summer cake with bunting and cherry blossom. Why not design your very own bird house and get carried away creating colourful patterns on paper first that can be reproduced on the cake.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Garden Shed Cake
Creating this garden shed cake is easy if you have a few of the right products. Believe it or not, the shed is made using a cutter set called ‘More Than A Bird House’ and it does exactly what it says!
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View the PDF »How To Make It’s ‘A Dog’s Life’ Cake
The Karen Davies Dogs By Alice mould is so flexible and easy to use that you can actually use sugarpaste in the mould if the dogs are going to lie flat on your cake or around the sides.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Ski Chalet Cake
This quaint little ski lodge sits upon a charming backdrop of snow topped rocky mountains.Get creative and adorn your cake with some textured fir trees and frosty snowflakes to finish off your magical winter retreat.
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View the PDF »Christmas Gingerbread House Cake
This colourful sugar gingerbread house makes a great Christmas cake topper. You can design and create your own template or use Fmm’s birdhouse cutter set which is a great addition to your cake decorating tool kit as it can be used to make a variety of different cake toppers!
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View the PDF »Toffee Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting
We've gone baking mad here at Cake Craft this week! Our cake mixes are used by the professionals, and they're our little secret to making delicious cakes and cupcakes every single time.
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View the PDF »Oodles of pretty icing flowers in no time at all!
We absolutely love the Blossom Sugar Art box set! It’s packed full of 15 unique flower cutters and 3 double sided moulds which couldn’t be easier to use.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Sparkly Tiara With Edible Jewels
Learn how easy it is to create a spectacular tiara cake topper in icing! Decorated with edible jewels and finished with an edible sparkly glitter, it’s perfect for a little princess’s birthday cake!
The set comes in 2 sizes so you can make little ones for cupcakes and we really love using them to cut out delicate side designs - check out our beautiful aqua wedding cake!
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View the PDF »How To Make A Bouncy Easter Bunny Sugar Model
The Easter Bunny has arrived in the form of this adorable sugar model. This makes a quirky little centrepiece to bring a traditional Easter cake to life, and requires only two modelling tools. It might look tricky, but it actually couldn’t be easier. Why not give it a go this Easter!
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View the PDF »How To Paint A Cake Super Gold
We’re always asked what the secret is to achieving a solid gold colour on cakes. It seems to be one of those techniques that everyone wants to master, and now we have discovered the perfect way to do it.
With the Rolkem Super Gold metallic food colouring lustre dust, it couldn’t be easier.
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View the PDF »How To Decorate A Cake In Gold Sequins
Cakes decorated in edible gold sequins have been trending for a while now, and at last we’ve found the perfect, easy way to make them!
The cake lace sequins mat allows you to make 236 edible sequins all in one go. It requires hardly any lace mix, and takes no time at all.
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View the PDF »How To Make Beautiful Sparkly Pearls
We love the exciting range of Karen Davies moulds that includes an incredible ornate pearl effect mould and a pearl border mould. Take a look at how we have used these moulds to completely transform two simple cakes into a couple of stunning showstoppers!
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View the PDF »How To Make Every Letter And Number With One Great Tin
One tin, countless uses. The Wilton Countless Celebrations Cake Pan Set is perfect for making cakes fit for all occasions.
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View the PDF »How To Make The Easiest Peony Ever
Want to make pretty peonies but feel it looks far too complicated? With the help of these amazing cutters, it couldn’t be easier! They have been designed to work together to make the easiest and quickest peony ever.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Happy Birthday Icing Cake Topper
Create a funky shaped Happy Birthday cake topper that can be popped on the side or top of your cake and coloured and decorated to suit the theme of your party.
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View the PDF »How To Make The Easiest Ranunculus Ever
Create beautiful sugar flowers using the Easiest Ranunculus Ever cutter set. Use a modelling icing or florist paste so that the petals hold their shape and remember to graduate the colour of the petals so that the flowers look realistic!
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View the PDF »How To Make Buttercream Flowers Using Moulds
The Karen Davies Buttercream Flowers Mould is ideal for creating realistic flowers with a buttercream effect for wedding cakes and celebration cakes. The ‘buttercream flower’ look on cakes couldn’t be easier to recreate thanks to this amazing mould! By using Perfect Paste instead of buttercream you make less of a mess and still achieve a beautiful effect.
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View the PDF »Add A Little Sparkle This New Year's Eve
We wanted to welcome the new year in with a bang, so we experimented with gold glitter and lustre stars to add a little sparkle to our bakes. Adding edible glitter and sprinkles is a great way to jazz up your leftover treats from Christmas to make them look pretty for a New Year’s Eve party!
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View the PDF »How To Make A Natural Wicker Heart Cake
This natural wicker heart design is a great cake for every occasion, including Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthdays and anniversaries. The colours used for the heart and cake are quite neutral, so you can use whatever colours you wish to match your theme and go wild with colourful flowers! If
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View the PDF »How To Make A Cute Panda with Balloons Cake
We made this 6 inch round cake using our red velvet cake mix and layered it with chocolate frosting. Our red velvet cake mix is so delicious and so easy to use – all you have to do, is just add water!
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A New Way To Stencil! Shabby chic to vintage wallpaper & marbling effects
Discover a new way to add ‘on trend’ patterns to your cakes using these new Visit the store flexible mesh stencils. There are currently three designs including a vertical line design, pretty floral pattern and a watersplash design which can be used to create a marbling effect.
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View the PDF »Pretty Flowers Using The Mixed Blossom Kit
Create a cascade of mixed flowers, ideal for cupcakes using this amazing little kit. In 6 simple steps you too will be able to create your own beautiful cascade!
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View the PDF »Cupcake Piping Guide
Ever wondered which tube to use to make those cupcake swirls, stars and shells? Look no further with our free guide!
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View the PDF »How To Guide: Baking Cupcakes With Our Madeira Cake Mix
Our rich golden Madeira mix (which simply needs water!) is perfect for baking cupcakes. Follow our 6 simple steps to make them and our tips on covering them with sugarpaste!
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View the PDF »Create Perfect Polka Dots
Polka dot designs on cakes are really popular but it takes careful planning and patience to achieve the correct spacing required for a perfect finish.The Press-Ice tools take the stress away.
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View the PDF »Dowelling A Cake With Pillars
There will always be a place for the more traditional look as pillars not only give dramatic height to a cake but can add a touch of elegance. Find out how the professionals do it with our free step-by-step guide.
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View the PDF »Lining Standard Cake Tins
Stop your cake sticking to your cake tin once and for all with our handy step-by-step guide.
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View the PDF »Lining Number Cake Tins
Ever lost your cake mix through the base of your tin ? Make that a thing of the past with our quick step-by-set guide. Size 1MB PDF
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View the PDF »Covering A Round Cake With Sugarpaste
Sugarpaste is a sweet icing that can be rolled out and used to cover cakes. This easy to follow 15 step guide will show how to get the perfect finish!
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View the PDF »Dowelling A Stacked Cake
If you are making a stacked cake, whether sponge or rich fruit, each tier (apart from the top) needs to be supported. Find out how the professionals do it with free our step-by-step guide.
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View the PDF »Making Edible Lace With Embossing Set
In this project we show you how to make edible lace using the Textured Lace & Embossing Sets to create stunning wedding / celebration cakes.
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View the PDF »How To Make Chocolate Lace
Here we have used the Karen Davies Lottie Lace Mould to create the intricate lace around the bottom edge of each tier.
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View the PDF »Sugarpaste Bows
These cute bows for the top of cupcakes are really simple to make, would be a great project for children to try and
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View the PDF »Baking Perfect Cupcakes
This is a short guide to baking perfect cupcakes, no recipes involved, just some hints and tips to help you along the way and a few fun ideas to try out at home.
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View the PDF »How To Make The Perfect Cake Pop
Cake pops seem to be coming ever more popular and maybe it’s because of their novelty factor. This short guide has 7 simple steps and lots of ideas.
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View the PDF »Making Hydrangea Flowers
Hydrangea blossoms always look so exquisite because of their delicate nature and wonderful colours. This short guide has 6 simple steps to follow to
create your very own Hydrangeas.
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View the PDF »Easiest Sugar Ruffles and Roses Ever!
This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create the most amazing roses and ruffles using 'The Smaller Easiest Rose Ever' cutter set. Learn how to make dainty roses for cupcakes and ruffles to decorate the side of small cakes.
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View the PDF »How To Guide: Sugarpaste, Ready To Roll And Fondant Icings
Our guide will advise you on the quantity of sugarpaste required to cover a cake.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Rainbow Cake
This pretty cake is perfect for any romantic or girls celebration. You can choose your own colour theme and be as delicate or bold as you like.
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View the PDF »Icing Lace In Minutes
Learn how to make delicate edible lace in minutes with Sweet Lace Express. The icing lace can be shaped, coloured and even made into delicate lace butterflies.
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View the PDF »Mother's Day Ideas
Using baking cups instead of cupcakes. Theses cakes make a superb centre piece for an afternoon tea or Mother’s Day get together.
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View the PDF »Beautiful Sugar Peony Flowers
How to make this lovely Peony flower. A stunning centre peice on your cake!
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View the PDF »The Jem Cupid Rose
Create roses really quickly using the Cupid Rose Jem Cutter. Supplied with a triple leaf cutter which compliments the small roses perfectly.
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View the PDF »Large Wired Sugar Rose
Just a little patience required and in no time you will be making beautiful sugar roses for your cakes!
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View the PDF »Easiest Sugar Roses Ever!
You won’t believe how quick and easy it is to make all these beautiful buds and roses using just one cutter and a simple technique. Find out how using our step-by-step guide.
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View the PDF »Rose Shaped Biscuits
Create these amazing rose shaped biscuits using the Karen Davies Large Rose Mould. We have given you a tasty recipe to use but you may prefer to use one of your own.
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View the PDF »How To Guide: Recipes For Chocolate Cake Coverings
Learn how to achieve fabulous ganache to cover your cakes.
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View the PDF »DAZZLING DAISY AND GERBERA CAKE
A stunning and simple cake for all sorts of celebrations.
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View the PDF »Easter Drip Cake
Drip cakes are all the fashion this year and so we have designed our own Easter drip cake and cupcake using coloured candy buttons and a selection of Easter decorations.
Fun Projects & Recipes
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View the PDF »NOT JUST A SNOWFLAKE CUTTER!
We love how versatile the snowflake plunger cutters are - take a look at these fun festive cupcake designs!
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View the PDF »How To Create A Whimsical Unicorn Carousel Cake
This dazzling carousel cake featuring whimsical unicorns would make a spectacular birthday cake for children and adults.
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View the PDF »Edible Designs To Colour In Yourself
Mindfulness colouring-in books are all the rage at the moment. But what’s better than colouring-in books?... Colouring-in cakes of course! These beautiful edible designs can be filled in with vibrant colours, and make for fun birthday cakes, especially for children!
Edible pens at the ready – colouring-in isn’t just for kids, you know...
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View the PDF »How To Create A Fabulous Flamingo Cake
Turn a plain iced cake into a whimsical baby shower or birthday cake, simply by adding flamingo shaped cookies decorated with sugarpaste
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View the PDF »How To Buttercream A Tall Cake And Paint Cute Animal Decorations
We created this trendy tall cake using a few of our favourite baking essentials – the cake leveller, the cake lifter, and the tall side scraper.
We also took the opportunity to try out some of Fmm’s adorable cutters to show you a simple technique of painting on icing.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Completely Cuckoo Chocolate Drip Cake For Easter
With Easter just around the corner now, we thought we’d get creative with the main thing that everyone looks forward to... chocolate! We went a bit cuckoo with this luxury chocolate drip cake topped with a realistic looking rooster. We like to think of it as a quirky alternative to the customary yellow fluffy chick cake topper – the cake may look a bit wacky, but it tastes absolutely delicious!
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View the PDF »How to make a 3D Minion Cake
Minions are a very popular choice for a birthday cake, and now we’ve found the perfect fuss free way to make one! The 3D Minions Cake Frame Kit is designed primarily for making your own standing Minion cake. It’s a fantastic piece of equipment, and perfect for making 3D novelty cakes on a sturdy re-useable base.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Cute Baby Unicorn Cake
This cute baby unicorn cake is simply baked using a pudding basin and a round cake tin so that there’s hardly any carving of cake at all.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Cute Icy Polar Bear Cake
Get ready for Christmas and make a cute polar bear cake. The polar bear is so easy to make and we love the sugar ice he is sitting on which we also placed around the board. It's made from Glacier Mints!
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View the PDF »Fangtastic Ideas For Halloween
Learn how to make stunning gothic rose cupcakes perfect for an adult Halloween party, and silly spider cupcakes which will go down a treat at kid’s parties. You can even have a go at carving out a skull cake for the perfect spooky centrepiece.
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View the PDF »How To Make A 3D Chocolate Rudolph Cake
Learn how to make this 3D chocolate reindeer cake just in time for Christmas. It's a fun alternative to a standard fruit cake, and looks great as a Christmas table centrepiece.
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View the PDF »Make A Easy Jigsaw Puzzle Cake
Geometric cakes are really trendy at the moment, which is why we absolutely love the new geometric cutter sets by PME! Our favourite at the moment is the jigsaw puzzle cutter.
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View the PDF »How To Make The Easiest Ever Christmas Cake!
Tried and tested so many times, this Rich Fruit Cake mix is the best ever and you only have to add water!
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View the PDF »Create Amazing Animals Using The FMM Mix ‘n’ Match Face Cutter
The FMM Mix ‘n’ Match Face Cutter is a revolutionary ‘all-in-one’ cutter designed to make an endless variety of animals. A huge selection of faces can be created to decorate cupcakes, celebration cakes and cookies.
With a little imagination and some tweaking, all you need is this one cutter.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Cute Spring Bunny Cake For Easter
Easter is just around the corner and what better way to get ready than making anEaster bunny cake! We have kept it easy using equipment you may already have in your cupboard. Apart from the white sugarpaste and modelling paste you need to cover the cake and make the features, all you need are some food colourings, edible glue and a selection of pretty sugar flowers.
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View the PDF »Frightfully Fun Halloween Ideas
Halloween gives everyone the excuse to spend some time in the kitchen. Here we have come up with some fun ideas for decorating and packaging your
spooky Halloween treats.
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View the PDF »Sexy Man Cake
Learn how to decorate with this step-by-step guide. Great for ladies birthdays and celebrations.
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View the PDF »How To Decorate A Shaped Novelty Cake
If you have ever purchased a shaped tin / pan (whatever the shape may be) then this guide will lead you through each step to create a fantastic cake.
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View the PDF »Patriotic Fun - Jazz Up Your Party Food
With so many celebrating the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee we have come up with some fun ideas for decorating traditional party food.
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View the PDF »Teddy Bear Sleep Over Cake
Have fun creating this cute teddy bear sleepover cake. It's fun and easy with our simple step-by-step guide.
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View the PDF »How To Decorate A Shaped Novelty Cake 2
If you have ever purchased a shaped tin / pan (whatever the shape may be) then this guide will lead you through each step to create a fantastic cake.
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View the PDF »Bake A Dad Cupcakes
What better way to show your dad how much you love him by making him into a cupcake?! This project is fun and easy.
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View the PDF »Jolly Face Christmas Cupcakes
These cupcakes are made using the jolly face cutter set from Cake Craft World. They are not only for Christmas though, they can be used all year round to create fantastic faces on cupcakes and celebration cakes.
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View the PDF »French Fancies By Peggy Porschen
My inspiration for these designs comes from an old French patisserie book I used to study during my training at Le Cordon Bleu. The piped chocolate designs have an appealing retro-feel and are easy to achieve with simple piping techniques.
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View the PDF »Chocolate Hearts By Peggy Porschen
These little French-style chocolate heart cakes make a delightful alternative to chocolate or chocolate truffles.
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View the PDF »Butterfly Cookies BY Peggy Porschen
The challenge is to find the butterflies... this is just one of many examples of how an attractive piece of printed fabric can instantly inspire you into creating something simply gorgeous.
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View the PDF »Superhero Cupcakes
Turn your favourite Superhero characters into amazing 3D cupcakes. A fun project for parents and children to enjoy together. Note: parental guidance recommended.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Princess Cake
This easy to follow guide demonstrates how easy it is to make this beautiful princess cake that will make any little birthday girl jump for joy. We used the Classic Wonder mould or alternatively...
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View the PDF »How To Make A Christmas Tree Cake
This festive cake is perfect for a family Christmas celebration and great fun to decorate as the entire family can get involved.
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View the PDF »Amazing Christmas Cupcakes
These festive cupcakes look their very best when they are made using intense brightly coloured icing; add some extra colour in the decorations, a little sparkle with edible lustre spray or dusts and they simply look amazing!
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View the PDF »How To Make An Owl Cake
Wooo someone you love with this cute mother and baby owl cake.
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View the PDF »How To Make A Bear Hugs Cake
Who could resist this adorable teddy bear cake? Perfect for Valentine's, birthdays or simply to say 'I Love You!'
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How To Make A Tyre Cake
As the Formula One racing car season is just about to start, a tyre seemed the perfect cake for 'big' boys who love their cars!
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View the PDF »How To Make A Pizza Cake
How to make this fabulous pizza cake with chopped tomatos, Mozzarella, sliced olives and basil leaves. Even the wood effect board is created from sugarpaste!
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View the PDF »Tyrannosaurus Cake
Get Jurassic with this Terrific Tyrannosaurus Dinosaur Cake.
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View the PDF »Jurassic Cupcake
Scary dinosaur cupcakes. You will either love or hate them !
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View the PDF »Snowflake Princess Cake
This frosty princess shimmers with edible glitters. Learn how to create her icy image with pearlised hair, a sparkling dress and an opaque shimmering cape.
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View the PDF »Make Your Own Christmas Jumper Cake
Make the special person in your life a woolly jumper cake this Christmas with this simple & easy to follow guide. Can be made from a standard 9 inch tin. Template included.
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View the PDF »Festive Cupcakes
Simple festive cupcakes using four cute Christmas shaped plunger cutters.
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View the PDF »Cupcake Shoes
Recreate your favourite shoes in cake with these sassy shoe cupcakes. They are a little bit fiddly but great fun to design, make and decorate and the perfect gift for ‘shoeaholics’!
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View the PDF »Aliens Are Coming
If you are having a space themed party then these comical alien cupcakes are not only fun, but quick and easy to do.
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View the PDF »Super Flying Saucer Cake
This super shiny spaceship cake is really fun and easy to make. To create the spherical shape, bake your favourite sponge recipe in either half a ball tin or a pudding basin.
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View the PDF »Cute Bunny Cake
With a few handy tips, this cute bunny cake is fairly simple and quick to make once you know which products to use. We created the ‘HAPPY EASTER’ message out of cookies using the Push Easy upper case alphabet cutters.
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View the PDF »Christmas All Wrapped Up!
Baking homemade treats for Christmas presents and parties has never been more popular. From cookies and cakes to mince pies and truffles, there’s a box, bag or wrapping idea for everything!
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View the PDF »How to make A Easy Handbag
In 5 easy steps you could create this impressive handbag cake.
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View the PDF »The Queen Made In Cake!
Creating a 3D caricature of The Queen sitting with a cupcake on her lap was quite a challenge to take on, but once started she soon became a reality without too much difficulty!
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View the PDF »PRETTY GINGERBREAD COUPLE AND COTTAGE CAKE
Create this fabulous Christmas cake topper in 7 easy steps.
