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How to Make a Princess Cake Using Fondant

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How to make a princess cake step 1 Make your cakes and gather what you need You will need: A round and a bowl shaped cake – see recipe at end of post 1 quantity of buttercream - see buttercream recipes … Continue reading

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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Cream cheese frosting is delicious on carrot cakes and red velvet cupcakes. I find the traditional version a bit to sweet and cloying so here is my recipe. 250g (8.82 ounces) cream cheese 90g (3.17 ounces) … Continue reading

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My Little Book of Frosting Recipes

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Frosting recipes are spread all over this blog and you can access them for free.  But for those of you who like things organized I have made ‘My little book of frostings’ here you will find eighteen frosting recipes in … Continue reading

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Easy Cookie Monster Cupcakes

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Cookie Monster cupcakes will go down a treat at any little kids party and with this technique they will be done quickly without the use of any fancy equipment. You will need: Cupcakes (vanilla cake recipe at bottom of princess … Continue reading

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How to Pipe Butter Cream Flowers Using Only a Ziplock Bag

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Believe it or not, you can make these buttercream cupcake frosting flowers using only a ziplock bag. They are super easy and quick, making them ideal if you need to frost a large amount of cupcakes with buttercream. I wanted … Continue reading

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Buttercream Cupcake Frosting Recipes

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Basic butter cream is an easy cupcake frosting to make, today we will look at the basic recipe and some of my favourite variations. To completely cover and fill two 20cm (7.87 inches) round cakes layered on top of each … Continue reading

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Marshmallow Fondant Recipe for cake decorating

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Take two 250g (8.82 ounces) packets of marshmallows and split into white and pink.  So you end up with 250g (8.82 ounces) white marshmallows (eat the pink ones or use in hot chocolate). Add one tablespoon of water and microwave … Continue reading

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