A decadent chocolate cake recipe with crunchy choc crumb and velvety smooth chocolate mousse between the layers. Topped with salted caramel drip and toasted Italian meringue. I had lots of fun filming this vr video, but I know many of you don't like virtual reality so I also filmed the whole thing again as ... »
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 ... »
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 ... »
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 ... »
Only one of my boys ever got attached to a particular teddy... Godfrey was teddy's name. He has to come with us on every trip and once he nearly got lost at a US airport. The other two kids just love all teddies equally and will easily swap which one, if any, ... »
This is the world's biggest Tim Tam. You can of course scale the Tim Tam recipe down and make normal sized Tim Tams. Or surprise someone who is doing giant things with one like this. We gave this huge Tim Tam to Jessica Watson, the youngest person to sail solo around the world. ... »
It's nearly star wars day. May the 4th be with you. My husband requested a Star Wars cake for his birthday this year, a millennium falcon to be precise. As the millennium falcon is largely monochromatic, but highly detailed, I thought it would be the ideal candidate for a silicone mold. The desert cake part is easy ... »
It's birthday season in our family. If you're not after a themed cake then my favourite would have to be a layered mousse cake. This one has strawberry mousse, lemon gel, sponge cake topped with italian meringue and fresh strawberries. It is oh so yum! You can't put fondant over a mousse cake directly as the ... »
Little girls everywhere have fallen in love with the Disney Frozen movie, watching it repeatedly. Singing the 'Let It Go' song until parents don't want to hear it anymore. Come birthday time they are of course wanting an Elsa cake. This one is as magical as the movie character herself with a flowing dress and ... »
Rainbow tie-dyed heart surprise cake. A beautiful bright cake with a colourful surprise inside. You can swap the heart for any shape that you have a cutter for. Or you could make your own cutter using the instructions in the twitter dessert video. Right after I finished making this cake I cut my finger. I ... »
The Fault In Our Stars is a best-selling novel by young adults author and YouTuber John Green. Scroll down to see a little more about the book and movie that topped the box office. In response to the tsunami of requests for a Fault In Our Stars dessert I've made this TFIOS icecream cake with ... »
This fun Lego Batman Cake is actually quite easy to make and is sure to light up any Lego, Batman or superhero party. It's 5am and I've snuck downstairs without waking my boys to write this before the Batman video goes up tonight. It's been a crazy-busy week. Yesterday started with an early morning phone ... »
I get lots of requests for easy birthday cakes, this one is so easy that my kids made it for their dad's birthday. His favourite meal is spaghetti and his cake of choice is carrot cake. Spaghetti Birthday Cake Recipe Carrot cake: This makes two small cakes, 1 whole one for the cake and 1/4 of the ... »
Which Divergent movie faction are you? Candor: I don't want to write out this recipe tonight, I want to go to sleep. Honest. Abnegation: Someone may want to make this cake and they'll need the recipe so you must help them. Selfless. Erudite: More than thirty three thousand people visit this website a day, it simply must ... »
"Can I (excited gasp) have a firetruck cake for my birfday? With a ladder and, and (insert excited movements here) and a fire hose?" Big smiles. This request came as no surprise, fire trucks and fire engines take pride of place in every game whether it be in the house, sandpit, bath or the car. ... »
Candy Crush Saga is played 700 million times a day and despite being free to download it earns the creators a whopping $850,000 a day. As players get stuck on level 33, 65 and 97 and all the levels in between they look for cheats and spend money on extra lives, extra moves and ... »
Despicable Me 2 is coming soon and my middle boy loves the cute minions, so this year he wanted a minion birthday cake. There have also been some requests from subscribers for a 3D upright cake tutorial and despicable me cake, so I filmed the making of his cake for you. You will need: round cake boards ... »
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 ... »
Italian Meringue Frosting With a new baby in the house, this cake needed to be simple to make. We had a lego themed party which went down a treat - read about the party games here. The cake is a layered chocolate cake with chocolate mousse covered in Italian meringue. The figures and words are ... »
When my eldest son asked for a star wars AT-AT walker cake (All Terrain Armored Transport) my immediate thought was that it is not really a cake-friendly shape. So I suggested we had a ginger bread 'cake' instead. To my surprise the kids ate all that was on their plates and even asked for more. Which, as ... »
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