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5 Cake Decorating Products You Need This Christmas Season
Christmas comes once a year, but every year it feels like it sneaks up on you. By the time you’ve even wrapped your head around the fact Christmas is only 3 months away, you’ve got 4 weeks left and need to plan your food festivities.
So, to help ease that looming feeling of what to do for Christmas, I have compiled a list to help you put that Christmas sparkle in your baking this year.
Sweet Sticks Lustre Dusts & Activator
Using this method will leave your fondant completely smudge free and ready to bag straight away! 🎉
Sweet Sticks Stencils and Alcohol Free Activator
By now you probably know that Sweet Sticks has brought out new range of Sweet Stencils and also amazing new Alcohol Free Activator.
What you may not know is that these to lines will work perfectly hand in hand and make your decorating so much easier and faster.
Differences Between Icing Sheets, Wafer Paper and Rice Paper
Rice paper, wafer paper and icing sheets – are they all the same and can they be used the same way? We get these questions often, especially now when wafer paper as well as rice paper are gaining more popularity in cake decorating.
So what are the differences and can one be swapped with another?
How to Use Sucreglass Cookie Stamps and Shaver
If you haven't heard about Sucreglass Super cookie stamps and Super Shaver you are seriously missing out as these products are game changer.
Super Stamps and Super Shavers are brand new product in Australia market brought to you all the way from France. Remi from Sucreglass has invented these cool new kitchen gadgets to help all the cookie decorators to achieve the amazing multi coloured fondant look on their cookies.
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8 Tips for Working with Fondant
The art of dessert decorating is a skill and technique that has been used for hundreds of years. Like every art discipline, the knowledge to understand the depths of the techniques and the tools you need to master the art of decorating is crucial to transform and take your vision to the next level.
Around most basic decorating techniques lies the art of working with fondant. Fondant is a fun and versatile medium that is wide spread and commonly used for covering and decorating cakes as well as sugar cookies.
Meet the Brand - Sweet Sticks
Sweet Sticks is Australian owned and manufactured food colour company, owned by fabulous Miranda who’s a professional cake pop maker.
Like so many of amazing businesses Sweet Sticks started when Miranda discovered a gap in the market and decided to do something about it. 8 months on and Edible Art Decorative Paint was born!
7 Reasons You Should Eat Chocolate This World Chocolate Day
In the world of sweets there is only one king - chocolate! With over 4,000 years of providing mankind the sweetest feeling, World Chocolate Day on the 7th of July should be one of the most celebrated for dessert lovers!
The question that many of us may be wondering is - how guilty should we all feel for consuming all that chocolate? Not very - and here are seven very good reasons why you should continue to eat chocolate!
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How to Create Multi Coloured Fondant Cookies with Cookie Stamps
Ever wondered how those cool, unique designs find their way onto your fondant covered cookies?
When earlier this year Samantha from @Sweetbakesofmine came out with this amazing technique, we knew that we had to give it a go and try it out ourselves. She had created something completely new for the cookie world, when we didn’t even think it was possible to invent anything new. So huge thanks to Samantha!!
What are Cookie Stamps and Fondant Debossers? Free Tutorial on How to Use Them
Looking back at this year so far, we were pretty sure that the 2020 Grinch, was on its way to steal Christmas! Luckily, if there’s one thing you can depend on, it’s the joy of cookies!
Embossed fondant covered cookies are currently taking over the social media in a big way. Cookie stamps…fondant debossers…reverse embossers - who’s the boss?!
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Making Macarons with Bakels Macaron Mix
Macarons are every baker’s worst nightmare. Most of us have, true love and hate relationship with these little buggers.
Our own first ever batch, from years ago, turned out perfect. Beginners luck? More than likely yes, as following 125 batches turned out nothing but a nightmare.
If you have tried to bake macarons before, and they turned out cracked, with no feet, flat, leaned, spread out, and so on, trust me, you’re not alone. Worst part, things that could go wrong and effect the end result, are so many, that you are pretty much flying blind, and have no idea where you’ve gone wrong.
Edible Gold Leaf - What Is It, How to Use It + Tutorial on How to Cover a Cake With It!
Edible gold leaf is probably one of the most expensive ways of decorating your cakes, cookies, cupcakes and other baked goods. Gold leaf also adds luxurious touch to cocktails, champagne and other drinks.
As the name suggests edible gold leaf is made out of real gold – hence the hefty price tag. Luckily the sheets are so incredibly thin, that it is still fairly affordable to buy (unless you want to cover a whole 5 tier cake with it, in which case, it can become very expensive exercise).
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