Category: Cake Decorating Services
Author: Charmayne
Location: Putney, South West London
Tags: Novelty Cakes, Occasion Cakes, Tutorials, Wedding Cakes
Delicious Cake Design
http://www.deliciouscakedesign.com/blog/
Lindsay's Description:
Charmayne is the cake creator behind Delicious Cake Design. Mixed in with posts about her cakes Charmayne also shares some of her tips of the trade. Writing wonderfully informative, engaging and honest posts about her experiences being a cake decorator. Also sharing her tips for people who are tackling their own cake projects, Charmayne is creating a fascinating and informative blog for anyone interested in the practicalities of cake decorating and running a business.
Charmayne's Description:
Delicious Cake Design creates bespoke wedding cakes, birthday cakes, anniversary cakes and celebration cakes for any occasion.
Recent Updates at Delicious Cake Design
Making a Fruit & Chocolate Stacked Wedding Cake
27 July 2010
My final cake order in London was for a wedding, which was such a nice way to leave London! It was a big order too – wedding cake, cupcakes, and mini cheesecakes. The wedding cake comprised of 2 double height tiers, a 6 inch fruit cake tier and an 8 inch chocolate cake tier. I ...
Squires Kitchen 5 Day School – Day 5: Flowers
16 July 2010
Today was the last day of the Squires Kitchen 5 Day School with Guest Tutors and the class was Sugar Flowers with Alan Dunn. I have one of Alan Dunn’s books on making sugar flowers, and in fact use his techniques to create many of my sugar flowers, so I was looking forward to picking ...
Squires Kitchen 5 Day School – Day 4: Modelling
15 July 2010
Today was the day of the Squires Kitchen 5 Day School that I was most looking forward to – Character Modelling with Jan Clement-May. I love character modelling and I was eager to learn some tricks of the trade from someone as experienced as Jan. She has written several cake decorating books ...
Squires Kitchen 5 Day School – Day 3: Royal Icing
14 July 2010
Day 3 of the Squires Kitchen 5 Day School with Guest Tutors was a day I was really looking forward to, despite the fact the class would be in my least favourite medium for cake decorating, Royal Icing. I really don’t like working with royal icing, royal icing and I don’t seem to get ...
Squires Kitchen 5 Day School – Day 2: Sugarpaste
13 July 2010
Day 2 of the Squires Kitchen 5 Day School with Guest Tutors was Sugarpaste with Paddi Clark. Having my own cake business, I already know a fair bit about covering cakes with sugarpaste and sugar decorations, so most of the things taught in the class I already knew. I did pick up a few good ...
Squires Kitchen 5 Day School – Day 1: Chocolate
12 July 2010
I started the 5 Day School with Guest Tutors today at Squires Kitchen in Surrey, England. The school consists of 5 full days of classes with a different teacher each day, each famous for a different specialty. I will be blogging about each day of the course, starting with Day 1 – Chocolate ...
Making a 3D Snoopy Kennel Cake
05 July 2010
Last week I made a 3D cake of Snoopy lying on top of his kennel and it is possibly my new favourite cake. It consisted of a kennel made entirely of cake, with a sugar modelled Snoopy a lying on top of the roof with a little sugar modelled Woodstock perched on his tummy. I ...
Royal Icing Course at Squires Kitchen
28 June 2010
A few weekends ago I went on a 2 day Royal Icing course at Squires Kitchen in Surrey. I had never royal iced a cake before, but my main reason for going was to learn some piping techniques in royal icing from Ceri Griffiths, who is such a marvellous cake decorator and an expert in ...
Making a BIG MOVE to Australia!
22 June 2010
So people who follow me on Twitter, or are fans of (or ‘Like’) my Facebook page, or read the News section of the Delicious Cake Design website, are now aware of the fact that me, my husband, and Delicious Cake Design are all moving to Sydney Australia in late July. It’s something ...
My Favourite Cakes in May 2010
31 May 2010
Today is the last day of May, and it was a really great month for Delicious Cake Design, one of the best months so far. I’ve made some really interesting and varied cakes, and in this blog post I’d like to share some of my favourites with you. I’ll list them in chronological order ...
