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How to Make Sugar Decorations for Desserts – Spun Sugar Recipe

  Add some crunchy texture and some wow factor to your next dessert with these easy and highly versatile sugar decorations.  This recipe is not suitable for children due to the high temperatures of the sugar syrup - but they will love eating it when it's ready. Ingredients: Approx 1 cup or 213g (7.51 ounces) sugar 1 tablespoon glucose syrup ... »

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Lemon Meringue Cupcake Recipe

These are one of my favourite cupcakes, light fluffy italian meringue offset with tangy lemon curd and vanilla cupcake. Vanilla Cupcakes: Make the cupcake using the vanilla cake recipe on the bottom of this post: vanilla cupcakes While they are cooking make your lemon curd and italian meringue. Lemon curd recipe 165g (5.82 ounces) or 3/4 cup caster sugar 2 eggs plus 2 yolks zest ... »

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Chocolate Orange Cupcake with Ganache Frosting Recipe

  Chocolate ganache can be infused with any flavour you desire, so do some experimenting. For these cupcakes I used orange and topped them with a jaffa.  You can eat them as is, or heat in the microwave until the ganache melts down over the warm cake. Serve with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. For ... »

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Cupcake Frosting – Chocolate Mint Ganache Recipe

Rich chocolate cupcakes with creamy mint chocolate ganache and a slice of peppermint crisp.  You can eat these as is or heat them in the microwave, let the ganache melt down over the warm cake and serve with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. For the chocolate cupcake recipe I use best ever chocolate cake ... »

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Best of the Web Thomas the Tank Engine Parties, Cakes and Food

Thomas The Tank Engine Train Cakes  (scroll down for party food and ideas) There are over 8,000 Thomas cakes on the internet.  Yes, I have looked at most of them!  This is a selection of some of the best ideas to inspire your cake making (hover your mouse over the images to see description). ... »

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Chocolate Glacage [glassage]/ Chocolate Mirror Glaze

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How Not To Cook That!

My baby was asleep so I had at least 40 minutes to make a chocolate glaze, tidy the house and do the washing.  Previous recipes for chocolate glaze that I had used did not give the thick coat and smooth mirror finish that I was after, so I was trying a new recipe. The glaze was ... »

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Best of the Web LEGO Parties, LEGO Cakes, LEGO Food and More

LEGO® Parties ... scroll down for cakes, food & even more fun lego stuff (hover your mouse over the images to see what it is that is great about each party). LEGO Cakes Lego is shiny, perfectly formed and a very familiar shape to most people, so it is hard to make a cake that looks ... »

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Four different ways to do fondant lettering

  Fondant Lettering Techniques 1. Print, Trace, Cut:  This is good for logos, like the ninjago one that have specific lettering styles.  Print it out on the computer the size that you need and cut it out.  Roll out your fondant on some baking paper, place the cut out paper letters on top and cut around them ... »

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It’s My Birthday

  Above is a beautiful layered fondant birthday cupcake made for me by my 9 year old son (I took a bite so you could see the inside).  Below is a pic of one made by my 7 year old and dinner made by a very lovely friend.  So blessed. Thank you boys   Swordfish... my favourite!! ... »

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