Ann Reardon

Cakes & Frostings

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4 ways to cover cake in buttercream

    Covering a cake in buttercream is trickier than ganache. Why? Because generally ganache is firmer and sets harder, so it is easier to get those straight edges and sharp corners. However you can still use buttercream to cover your cake. Today I will be looking at 4 different techniques ... »

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3d Chibi gravity defying cake tutorial

    The human figure is way too skinny to make into a cake, unless you want to make a full sized cake that is big enough to feed hundreds of people. I am going to show you how to make a chibi version of anyone. Chibi characters are a lot more child like with ... »

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Working Erupting Volcano Cake

  My quest today is to make a working volcano cake that erupts. I had a plan in my head of a set up that might make this work, watch the video to see how it turned out. To make this erupting volcano cake you will need: Equipment: 200mL (6.76 fluid ounces) syringe tube empty soda bottle drill dry ice cake board aluminum foil to ... »

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Miniature Wedding Cake for Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's Day for Feb 14th! Dave and I also just celebrated our wedding anniversary and had a lovely night out at a restaurant overlooking the city and, afterwards, we even went to the drive-in to watch a movie! Yes, drive-ins still exist. Friends of ours looked after our kids for the evening, ... »

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Miniature Gingerbread House Recipe

  Merry Christmas everyone, praying for a blessed Christmas and amazing new year for you in 2018. My youngest had to bring something special to school for a Christmas picnic which, due to school rules, was 'not to be shared with others'. I sent him along with a picnic packed with his ... »

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3D My Little Pony Princess Twilight Sparkle Cake

  To make this you will need: 1 1/2 quantities of my rich chocolate cake recipe 2 x my buttercream recipe in any flavor you like Princess Twilight Sparkle Cake Template   1kg (2.2 pounds) Mauve Fondant (I used white and colored it using pink and purple gel food colours. I noticed that the colours faded a bit after the ... »

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Moana Cake

  The Moana movie came out a while ago now but there have been lots of requests for a cake. So to help out the mums who have to make a Mona birthday cake I thought I'd make a fondant free version with chocolate flowers. To make this Moana cake you will need: Double quantity of ... »

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3D Donut Cake

  Click here to check out the NEW Merch   To celebrate the launch of my new merch I have made a 3D standing up donut cake with donut flavored frosting. This week has been a bit of a stressful one for me, filled with many specialist doctors appointments. Our paeditrician was ... »

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Operation Game Cake

  I think board games should be compulsory for every family. While plying kids get to practice taking turns, resisting the urge to cheat while their sibling isn't watching and of course not giving up when you're losing. I have tested out the digital versions of some of the popular board games and ... »

3D unicorn cake tutorial

3D unicorn cake tutorial

cute unicorn drawing: 1 and 2   This 3D unicorn cake is a 4 out of 5 for cake decorating difficulty so if you're just starting out you may like to try this easier unicorn cake. Or you could use the unicorn on the surprise cakes app and add it to the top of any ... »

unicorn cake how to

Easy Unicorn Cake

  This fun and relatively easy cake, with hardly any fondant. This unicorn cake design was invented by the very talented and amazing Jenna Rae Cakes back in September 2016 and since then they have been appearing every where! I had tears streaming down my face last night as I read through the ... »

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Sarsaparilla Root Beer Birthday Cake

  The best kind of birthday cakes are ones that are fully customized to the birthday boy/girl. My kids can dream up whatever they'd like in a birthday cake. This year Matthew came up with an interesting combination of flavors and amazingly it all worked together. As one teen at the party ... »

minecraft cake

Minecraft slime balls, grass blocks and TNT cake

 This week my baby turned six years old! He is at school, losing his baby teeth and learning to read. My how he has grown. The week he was born I wrote my very first recipe on this website, and I have not missed a Friday since then. Just as Jedd has changed, so ... »

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Ballerina Cake

Pretty ballerina cake recipe for all those girls who train hard so they can dance gracefully and make it look easy.   To make this ballerina cake you will need: (serves 20) Ballerina cake template   1 and a 1/2 x the fluffy sponge cake recipe baked in 12 cupcake cases and two 8" round cake tins. One quantity ... »

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Best Fiends Slug Cake

  If you know the game 'Best Fiends' you will instantly recognize this cake as one of the slugs that you've been spending your time trying to defeat. His name is 'devourer' and this is one slug that you can overcome by serving him up to happy party guests.   To make this best fiends ... »

ice-cream cake recipe

3 minute ice-cream cake

  Ice-cream cakes are so quick and easy to make, but you do need to allow time for it to set in the freezer. Pull it out just prior to serving, decorate it on top and you're good to go.   This week we reached 3 million subscribers on YouTube. I have been trying ... »

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Baby Shower Pregnant Belly Cake

  The pending arrival of a new baby is cause for celebration. Amongst the excitement and nervousness about being a new mum there is also a growing list of stuff that you need to buy. Baby showers often help tick a few items off that list. If you've managed to keep ... »

Giant Macaron Cake

Giant Macaron Cake

  Using fondant allows you to get much more detailed and realistic looking cakes. But some people don't like the taste of fondant so in this cake you have layers of macaron, ganache, cake, salted caramel and no fondant. To make this giant macaron cake you will need: 1 1/2 x my rich Chocolate Cake Recipe Bake ... »

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Guitar Cake with your top ten bands & artists

  We asked what your favorite bands and artists were and after more than 6000 responses we've tallied up all the votes and the results are in. This was a fun cake to make. If you're new to cake decorating, give yourself a couple of days to make it. One to bake the cakes, ... »

The Walking Dead sheriff’s hat cake

The Walking Dead sheriff’s hat cake

The Walking Dead season 7 is coming oh so soon. I don’t know about you, but I’m not actually sure if I like most zombie shows ... it's not the blood and gore that bother me (I’ve studied human biology units at university and seen my fair share of cadavers). It's more the ... »

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100 Layer Crepe Cake Recipe

  One hundred layers of crepes stacked with mascarpone cheese, raspberry sauce and ganache. Sometimes trends on youtube get a little crazy. The one hundred layers trend all started with a young lady putting on over 100 layers of nail polish on her nails. Because that video had a ridiculous amount ... »

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Secret Life of Pets dog Cake

  We have a 5 year old in the house so when we go to the movies as a family we tend to all go to something suitable for the youngest. The latest trip was to see the Secret Life of Pets. I must admit the dim lighting plus the comfy chairs was ... »

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Fanta Bottle Cake

  After the coke cake video there was an overwhelming number of requests for a fanta bottle cake. It is a bit of a trickier shaped bottle so I've added a few tips in the video to make it even easier to handle. Seriously these cakes are so easy to make, you can ... »

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Play Doh Cake Video

  Play doh is the best fun for kids of all ages. This huge tub is filled layers of jelly cake smothered in Italian meringue frosting. It tastes gorgeous and because the play doh bucket is molded it is easy to get it looking perfect. To make this play doh cake you will need: 2 ... »

shopkins cake

Shopkins Cake

  I am so glad Shopkins toys are loved by kids all around the world. The cute little plastic, collectable figures were invented by a fellow Aussie. Had they been around when I was a kid I'm sure that I would have been saving my pocketmoney to get some. To make this ... »

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