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Isomalt – What It Is And How To Use It + Free Tutorial
Isomalt is amazing medium that allows bakers and cakers with all skill levels to create beautiful clear sugar art for cakes, cupcakes and other desserts. Isomalt may not be as well known by home bakers, so on this blog post we will discuss all things isomalt – what it is, how to use it, where to buy it and so on.
What is Isomalt?
Isomalt is a sugar free sweetener discovered during the 1960s. Isomalt is white in colour, crystalline and odourless. It is extremely stable sugar substitute that has many different uses in food industries.
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All About Food Flavourings - From Extracts & Emulsions to Flavouring Oils, Powders, Pastes & more
When it comes to baking and decorating amazing cakes and cookies, flavour is just as important as the appearance of your baked goodies. There are endless possibilities on how to achieve the most amazing flavour combinations, and on this blog post we are discussing some of the options that you can buy from Cakers Paradise.
The most common questions that we usually get, are “Can you use the food flavouring for chocolate?”, “Is this flavouring allergen free?”, “But is it Halal?”
How to a Make Giant Chocolate Easter Egg Filled with Lollies
Easter is just around the corner, and what a better way to celebrate it, than with tons of chocolate. But if you want to have something bit more special, then your usual supermarket Easter eggs, then we have a treat ready for you.
On this blog post, we will show you, how to make your own jumbo chocolate Easter eggs, that you can fill with lollies, cookies, macarons, or really anything small and sweet. Perfect treat for your kids to find, on their next big Easter egg hunt.
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Cake Decorating With Silicone Moulds
Moulds are efficient and fast way to decorate cakes, cookies, cupcakes and other edible creations. Even the beginners can create professional looking cakes, using moulds to make the decorations. Two main types of moulds are silicone moulds and plastic moulds. Silicone moulds are great to use with fondant or gumpaste, where plastic moulds are better for chocolate work.
Vegetable Shortening - What It is, How to Use It
Have you stumbled across a recipe that calls for vegetable shortening, but have no idea what it is or where to get it from? We will shed some light on it below, as well as add a simple buttercream recipe, that is using Solite vegetable shortening.
Vegetable shortening is simply a 100% solid fat. Some other products like butter have water and other solids added to it, shortening has nothing at all. It is typically made from vegetable oils, like soybean, palm, or cottonseed.
How to Use and Store Edible Icing Images
Personalising baked goods is definitely easier with the help of edible icing images. Edible images can be used on cakes, cupcakes, cookies and even on macarons. What’s also great is that edible images are convenient, you just need to wait for the design to be printed and simply adhere the image to the cake surface. There is no need to worry about the edible image altering the cake’s taste because these typically only have a tiny amount of sugary flavour.
What Do I Need for Buttercream Piping?
Learning how to fill pastry bags, hold pastry bags, and pipe simple shapes are fundamental skills of cake decorating. Piping nozzles are very useful tools and can be used in so many different ways. Most of the cupcakes are decorated with buttercream, using different piping nozzles. You can use buttercream piping to decorate your cake borders. Piped borders give cakes finished and professional look. There are several simple, classic borders that are easy to master. The size and shape of each border will vary, depending on the piping tip you’re using.
Everything You Need to Know About Cake Boards
Cardboard cake boards come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are each about 3mm thick. Cardboard cake boards are usually silver or gold in colour.
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Black Cocoa Powder – What Is It And How To Use It
Black cocoa powder has been around for a while. But on Australia market it is still pretty new product, and not many people know about it, or know how to use it. Two of the more common types of cocoa powders are natural and dutched, both which are widely used in food industries. The “ultra dutched” aka black cocoa powder, was until recently not very common in Australia. But it’s winning over all the bakers and decorators, and for a good reason.
Any kind of cocoa powder (or cacao powder) comes from cocoa beans. Cocoa powder is the core of a chocolate's flavour, without any extra fat, sugar, or milk to get in the way.
Edible Food Colours
Colours make a cake stand out and colour combinations can make or break the cake. Often the theme of the party will dictate the colours to be used. Finding the right colour and shade can be the tricky part, as there are many different brands and products.
Tools For Baking Cakes
Can’t bake a cake without a cake tin! There are dozens of shapes and sizes of cake tins that you can buy. Traditional shapes are obviously round, square and rectangular.
Why Do We Love Colour Mill Oil Based Edible Food Dyes
By now probably everyone in the cake and dessert industry have heard about the new food colours on the market, from Colour Mill. Ever since the Colour Mill oil based food dyes were introduced to us, they’ve been super popular and that’s for a good reason – they are absolutely amazing! And what makes them so amazing? Well mainly the fact that you can now use one food colour for all your needs, and don’t have to have tons of different edible dyes for every job you might have in hand. But there is much more to love about them.
