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Camera Pinata Sugar Cookie Recipe

Cute Camera Pinata Sugar Cookies filled with mini M&M's are perfect for your next memorable moment. Photography used to be a hobby reserved for people with ridiculously long lenses and very deep pockets. Now thanks to digital technology and hi-res smart phones, everyone can take beautiful photos, add a filter and look like an expert. This week ... »

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Rainbow Unicorn Cake

A unicorn magically appears on top of this rainbow cake. Seriously you need to watch the video - this is a high tech cake!     Did you know apple individually reviews every app and update that is uploaded to their store? Great unless you're waiting for an app to be approved, with no particular time frame you ... »

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Hand Bag Cake Tutorial

  Inspired by a $20K lively pink hand bag, this handbag cake is a delicious and affordable alternative for those of us who would never dream of spending that much on an accessory.     I always smile when people comment on YouTube that 'she must have made it hundreds of times before'.  The video you see is ... »

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Giant Twix Bar Recipe

  Giant Twix bar recipe makes two 1kg (2.2 pounds) twix bars, we gave this one to a wonderful young lady who volunteers some time each month to work with deaf children in Fiji. Learn how to make the Twix bar and hear more of her story in the video. Make a box from thick cardboard 37cm (14.57 inches) long x 7cm (2.76 inches) ... »

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Elegant Fruit Dessert Recipe

Sometimes an elegant dessert is needed to finish off an evening.  The fresh tang of the fruit and the sauce, the rich creaminess of the chantilly and the crunch of the biscuit all compliment each other to make a grand finale to a special meal. Makes 6 fruit desserts Chantilly Cream Recipe 100millilitres (3.38 fluid ounces) or 1/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp ... »

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Disney Frozen Snowflakes Jelly Cups

  These little Frozen jellies, complete with frosty rims and snowflake icing will be a wonderful dessert to go along with an Elsa, Anna or Olaf cake at a Disney Frozen party.  As a little girl growing up in a very warm country like Australia, I imagined snow to be the most wonderful stuff. Girls in white ... »

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Frozen Elsa Cake

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 ... »

iPad Cake Recipe

iPad Cake Recipe

All your favourite Apps on two iPad cakes.  A few weeks ago I asked you to name your favourite Apps and the response was absolutely huge!  So after adding them all up, here are the most requested icons squeezed onto two iPad cakes. I'll show you two methods to make this cake in the video ... »

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Giant Kit Kat recipe

Is this the world's biggest Kit Kat? To make your own all you need is wafers and chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate.  The tricky bit is getting that lovely crisp Kit Kat shape. To help I've done all the calculations and created a free template for you below.  So if you know someone who ... »

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Mini Hamburger Cake Recipe

I'm not sure whether to call these a mini hamburger cake or chocolate cheeseburgers. Either way they will make a delicious sweet surprise for your friends. Makes 5 Mini Hamburger Cakes Muffin Rolls: 240g (8.47 ounces) or 1 1/2 cups flour (all purpose) 164g (5.78 ounces) or 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 tsp baking powder 61g (2.15 ounces) or 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 egg milk to make 1 ... »

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Chocolate Book Recipe

This chocolate book, like all good novels, has a delicious twist inside.  Each page has a completely different flavour.   The 'leather' cover is pure milk chocolate, making this book a unique and decadent surprise for your friends and loved ones.   I'm a stationery fan, I like leather-bound journals, customized diaries and cute notebooks.  My leather ... »

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Dora The Explorer Cake

Here's a super simple Dora the Explorer birthday cake idea.  Bright and beautifully colourful in the Dora logo colours, this dress is ready for any party or fiesta.  Making a gorgeous cake is fun but there's always a big clean-up afterwards of course. The only issue is that our dishwasher broke this week, meaning all ... »

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YouTube Cake Dessert Recipe

First there was the instagram dessert with the logo all the way through, followed by facebook, then you asked for a twitter cake. To finish off my complete set of social media desserts here's a YouTube cake, or should I say dessert. Did you know that 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?  That means in ... »

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Chocolate Birds Nest

Bird nests are so clever, it makes you wonder how our feathered friends actually get started. Patiently collecting and arranging twigs, leaves and other material to build a warm, secure home.  It reminds me of mums everywhere working hard to make family traditions and building a warm and loving home for their little ones. ... »

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How To Make Chocolate Candles

  Dazzle your guest with chocolate candles filled with white chocolate mousse.  They look complicated but they are surprisingly easy to make. You can have a bit of fun serving empty plates and then candles as the centre piece. This morning I had a film shoot as a guest on a TV show, which was great fun. ... »

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Spaghetti Birthday Cake

  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 ... »

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Giant Gummy Bear Kit Kat and m&m cake

"I made a giant Gummy Bear, Kit Kat and M&M cake today while you were at school, do you want to see a photo?" "Woooaaahhh that's awesome, can I have some when we get home?" "I gave it away" "What!!! Who to?" "I gave it away on Instagram" "Muuuum!! I would have eaten that." "I know, that's why I gave it ... »

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How to Make Chocolate Easter Eggs Recipe

Learn how to make home made chocolate Easter eggs with a surprise inside.  Easter egg hunts are so much fun, with the biggest egg always last.  One year when I was a child, my Mum carefully set up an Easter egg hunt with clues and notes for us to follow from one egg to the ... »

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Divergent Movie Cake

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 ... »

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Pet Dragons & Castle Cake Tutorial

The best pet is one that sheds no hair, makes no mess and is not too noisy.  Meet my pet dragons.  They live inside the castle cake but will be just as happy residing anywhere in your home. To make the Castle Cake with Dragons you will need to: * Download the Surprise Cakes App from or ... »

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

There aren't many guarantees in life but here's one ... if you use my secret recipe for chocolate chip cookies, you'll need to hide them or they'll all be gone before the day is out. Rich, chewy, chocolatey, with a delicious pretzel crunch, they are best served warm with a glass of cold milk. ... »

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Heart Cupcake

Valentines Day is just around the corner so how about giving these 'surprise' heart cupcakes a try.  Unlike most love-heart cupcakes, where you have to cut at a specific point to see the design inside, these little beauties will show your heart no matter which side you bite.  So whether you're making them for a good ... »

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Surprise Cakes App

Instructions for How To Cook That Surprise Cakes App Bringing your cakes to life. Step 1: Purchase the app or Step 2: Print out your markers and cut out Surprise Cakes App Markers (click to open pdf) Step 3: Open the app and press the button for the animation you want, line up the square directly above the appropriate marker until it ... »

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Worlds Biggest Snickers Bar Recipe

What's even better than a delicious Snickers bar?  The world's BIGGEST Snickers bar of course! The Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest Snickers ever made at 1LB, which everyone would agree is pretty big.  However, today's Snickers bar recipe will help you create a candy bar that's 5-times bigger again, with more than ... »

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How to Make Chocolate Scrabble

This iconic chocolate Scrabble set is laden with potential as you create the perfect hand-made gift for your special someone this Valentines Day. Instead of an overpriced greeting card or red roses, you can craft your own personal message, package it up nicely with a bow and let your Valentine know your true feelings. Love, like ... »

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