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Baked Churches
Bakers across the UK have been busy baking their local churches- or rather busy baking cakes in the shape of their local churches! %%ImageNewsTicker_23952%% The cakes were all entries for The Great Church Bake Off organised by The Churches Conservation Trust and judged by Loyd Grossman, Lady Lucy French and ...
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Nightmare on Baker Street
I’m afraid Halloween is not one of my favourite times of the year. In fact, I can admit that I get a little "Bah Humbug" about it! So I am never very inspired to give you cakey ideas and recipes around this ‘season’.
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NewsLondon bakery re-opens following cockroach closure
A bakery in the London borough of Brent has re-opened following a £1,559 fine and forced closure for a cockroach infestation.
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A New Mix in Baking
You may well have heard of the latest baking trend to hit the UK; the combining of two or more recipes to create a never-been-eaten hybrid treat.
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A beginners guide to Halloween
I’ve been scratching my head over what I should write for this Halloween edition. If your childhood was spent in Australia, chances are you too grew up desperately wanting to celebrate Halloween but it wasn’t the done thing and so never have.
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Being a Judge
So here is my story of judging this year’s National Cupcake Championships rather then winning it. The insiders view!
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Birthday thoughts from Chicago
If there is one day that is highly anticipated in a person’s life, it has to be the coveted birthday. It is a time for joy and celebration - or woe and despair, depending on your perspective. It typically involves coming together to commemorate another year of being alive and well. However, no birthday would be complete without the centrepiece of all centrepieces, the cherry on top, the pièce de resistance: a birthday cake.
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NewsUnited Biscuits chief executive to step down
United Biscuits (UB) chief executive Martin Glenn is stepping down from the post in early April.
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Soggy Bottoms
Q: Last year my Christmas cake was too moist and soggy on the bottom. I baked it about 3 to 4 weeks in advance and followed the recipe to the letter! I was very disappointed and ended up buying one instead. Please could you let me know if there was anything I was doing wrong? Thanks very much!
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A box of chocolates AND a cake!
Text and Photographs by Bernice CamlinThis is a wonderful cake suitable for all sorts of occasions - birthdays, Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, anniversary’s etc. I made this cake for the first time for my friend Lesley’s birthday and it was such a success that I have made it many times since and each time I give it a different look.
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Think outside the box: Christmas Cakes
If you want to make a Christmas cake, make it a showstopper centrepiece for the table- no-one really wants to buy the traditional Christmas cake any more.
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Classic British Cakes - Justine Spalding
This edition we are looking at British cakes. Hmmmm, what cakes are traditionally British? Fruit cake, sponge, it seems that the cakes that spring to mind are the traditional basics.
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Classic British Cakes - Victoria Forward
So this edition of Cake Wire is all about British Classics! As my new business, Victoria Sponge, finally gets underway (yes I finally managed to convince my landlord, yippee!), you would think that it would be obvious which classic I would be discussing today! However, I have decided to share a recipe for different cake with you instead!
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Classic British Cakes - Jill Scott
Whilst the Victoria Sponge will always be a classic I like to add a twist to most of my cakes so that they are unique and different to everybody else’s. Although I have never tried to sell a Victoria Sponge to my customers on the stall I would probably end up decorating it with whole fresh strawberries on the top.
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NewsBritish Pie Week: top facts
There are still two days left in British Pie Week 2015 and British Baker has rounded up some facts about the UK pie eater.
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Mitch Turner’s Master Class - Swiss Meringue Cake
Mich Turner of the Little Venice Cake Co. demonstrated decorating a Swiss Meringue Ombre Cake at the recent Cake International Show at Birmingham NEC.
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Novelty Ssss-nake Cake
Cake Design company Top Tier Cakes of Cheshire gives CakeWire a step by step guide to making an eye-catching novelty snake cake, guaranteed to appeal to the young or the young at heart.
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Childrens novelty cake
Since my first blog I now have a stall at my local farmers market every month as well as supplying a local coffee shop. Looking at renting a pop up shop for the day in surrounding towns to showcase my cupcakes and cakes.
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Why costing is not a piece of cake
I’ve run into a slight hiccup with re-starting my business, but worth while noting for anyone else who may be thinking about getting in to this game; my landlord refuses to let me run a business from the house we are renting whilst we try to buy. He is well within his rights and has seemingly valid concerns; disturbing neighbours, issues of insurance...