Natalie and I have been super busy the last two weeks creating this awesome class. We have been planning a tiered wedding cakes class for some time now. This is to meet the demand for a comprehensive and challenging class full of essential techniques for budding wedding cake makers. We have incorporated the essential sharp square edges on […]
We are forever inundated with demands for online cake classes. Online classes have really taken off in the last few years and serve up everything from pretty rose swirls to how to start and run a cake business, in the comfort of your own home. We have been toying with the idea of starting online […]
I am sure that anyone and everyone who has ever made a wedding cake will have had either the very hint of a doubt or a full on nightmare about what can possibly go wrong. I thought I would start a list here and keep adding to it from our Facebook page and Instagram feed. Here is […]
Sometimes, just sometimes, you fall in love with your own work. I suppose it is a perfectly good place to be. One must love one’s work, otherwise days in the office will be tedious and co-workers will seem a bit monstrous. This is one such class that makes us what we are – it is […]
This time, last year, our workshop was in full chocolate mode. The lovely Natalie was churning out chocolate mud cake after chocolate mud cake from our four ovens. Chocolate smells were infusing every last bit of printer paper (not too bad a thing) in our office and a thin mist of flour and cocoa was everywhere. This is because Sharon […]
We have had a fabulous start to 2014. We have signed up some major new teachers to teach some majorly awesome new classes at our cake school. I start with the amazing Trina Thomson, who is coming all the way from Australia to teach how to make these two absolutely stunning cakes: Ruby and The Ghost and Steampunk Bride and Groom […]
Every now and then you come across a cake that is SO exquisite that you wish you could capture every last detail on camera. We have tried to do so with these images, but it is simply not possible to show here just how stunningly detailed and beautiful these cakes really. These two cakes will […]
Happy New Year! Well, it is nine days late, but better late than never, I say! 2013 was an eventful year at Fair Cake and in my life. One of the most hectic months was September. I had to move house AND make a wedding cake in the same week. To make matters slightly more […]
Buttermilk is a beautiful baking ingredient. Not a lot of people use buttermilk in baking in the UK, we tend to base our cakes more on the classic Victoria Sponge, but once you use buttermilk, you will love what it does to the texture of a simple sponge cake and rave about the slight, ever […]
This is one of my favourite fool proof chocolate recipes. It is from an old Canadian book, of which it was ripped off and given to me years ago. I’m afraid I do not know who the author is, all I know is that the book was Canadian! I used this recipe to make this […]