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Anfield Cake
When your soon-to-be 9 year old asks for a birthday cake in the shape of Anfield, what can you do? This is my usual madeira recipe, with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam. I made the cake from two 8″ square … Continue reading
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Tagged Anfield, baking, birthday, boys, buttercream, cake, colouring, cooking, fondant, football, frosting, icing, jam, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool football club, sponge, strawberry, vanilla, You'll Never Walk Alone
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Turbo Cake
I made this Turbo cake for my youngest son’s birthday. I used a bowl for the shell part of the cake and carved the head and body from a square cake, before icing and assembling. The eyes were made from … Continue reading
Autumnal Cake
I made this autumnal cake for the school harvest festival auction. It’s a maderia sponge, filled with raspberry jam and buttercream, covered with white fondant icing and decorated with fondant icing autumn leaves and harvest mice. I shaped the leaves … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, baking, buttercream, cake, celebration, fondant, harvest, jam, leaves, madeira, mice, sponge
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