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Dr Oetker products are a familiar sight on both this site and the supermarket shelf; the range of sprinkles and cake decorations available from local shops without having to shop online has expanded massively since I started this site in 2009. [Read on...] Fairy cakes are more delicate, with less icing and more suited to children’s parties. Those buttercream heavy beasts sold in the West End would start sheer sugar warfare at the average toddler’s get together [Read on...] More of the same here except I have used Silver Spoon White Chocolate Cake Covering instead of either ordinary white chocolate or Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Cake Covering. I like topping cakes with chocolate as you don’t have to faff about getting the consistency of icing correct. So it is nice and quick for practising [Read on...] Today’s batch are for my Big Lunch girlfriends who are coming round tonight to celebrate our successful Big Lunch Street Party on 19th July. These cakes have a chocolate base and are presented in gold foil cases. On the top I have used Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Cake Covering. It doesn’t taste so good as [Read on...] The Big Lunch cupcakes were all polished off and I had invited several friends round promising them left over cake. So I had to make some more. I flavoured them with lemon and coloured the icing pale yellow. There were very pretty but I forgot to photograph them and these disappeared quickly too. The [Read on...] More Big Lunch cupcakes. You cannot see the chocolate base so take my word for it that it is there. I really liked working with melted chocolate – and since I have acquired a microwave since my last occasion melting chocolate I didn’t even have to mess about with the double boiler. Having said [Read on...] Big Lunch cupcakes, continued… these are my favourites so far. Yellow is an easier colour to work with than the others I have tried so far. Above we have decorations as follows: Pink buttercream blobs with Dr Oetker sugar flowers Dr Oetker sugar flowers on their own (is less more? Not sure…) Mini marshmallows [Read on...] More Big Lunch cupcakes… well, this really is a learning curve. I now know that blue food colouring is less intense than pink. Whereas a half teaspoon of blue food colouring was only enough for a pastel blue on yesterday’s batch, today I learn that pink is less forgiving. I got over confident with the [Read on...] Why blue? Well one of my ideas is to do pale blue cupcakes for new babies (boys obviously) so I thought I’d practice some blue icing although I won’t be decorating them baby style as they are for The Big Lunch. I was perhaps a big scant with the toppings here, I was trying too [Read on...] |
 
 
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