Valentines at Cake Craft World
Hall of Fame
 You were all obviously so busy over Christmas and New Year that you forgot to send in your cake photos.  I am very sad about this and miss looking at all your wonderful creations so please email your
best works of art to louise@cakecraftworld.com
and hopefully our Hall of Fame will look a little fuller next month!
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You know when you have used icing sugar to roll out dark sugarpaste colours and cannot seem to get rid of the ghostly shade of white from your sugarpaste?


 


 

Glaze Spary 


 

Try our edible glaze spray,

it rids your cake of all

traces of icing sugar and leaves your cake with a

really professional sheen. 

Let me know what

you think. 

The can also lasts for ages!

 

Don't Miss Us

We have a CakeCraftWorld cake on the cover of a magazine! Have a look at Wedding Cakes magazine - Issue 8 where our wedding cake is on the front cover and a step by step feature inside of how to make it.  Our Love Cake is also featured on the back cover of the magazine too.  It is well worth purchasing!

   

 

 


This Month's 
Special Offers

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LIPS COMFORT

GRIP CUTTER

Now £3.32  

 

 

chocolate hearts cupcake wrappers

 PACK OF 12 CHOCOLATE HEARTS CUPCAKE

Now £4.30

 

 

 I LOVE YOU

COOKIE CUTTER SET

Now £4.90 

 

 

  

PACK OF144 PLASTIC RED GLITTER HEART RINGS

Now £14.00

 

 

PACK OF 4 RED STRIPEY COOKIE BOXES

Now £3.99 

 

 

bbc2

'THE GREAT

BRITISH BAKE-OFF'

 is back and looking for amateur bakers

 

Do you love home baking and fancy putting your skills to the test?  BBC Two is looking for amateur bakers across the country to take part in The Great British Bake Off series two. If you're interested and would like to find out more, email baking@loveproductions.co.uk or call

020 7067 4876 

  

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

To apply you must be over 16 on 1 April 2011. As an 'amateur baker' your main source of income cannot come from commercial baking in a professional environment and you cannot have ever worked full-time as a baker or chef. You cannot have acquired any formal NVQ or other professional catering qualifications in the

past 10 years.

 

Good Luck Readers!

 

bake off photo

 

 

Spotlight On...

 

 

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Hello Readers, 

 

Firstly, welcome to 2011 everyone. hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and are now ready to tackle the serious topic of 'LOVE'. Our special valentine edition will be showing you lots of ideas and tips for making some really lovely little gifts to show those people closest to you just how much you care. 

 

I had a call last week from the BBC with some really exciting news.  We have been asked to introduce all our wonderful readers to this year's BBC Great Cake Bake! They are busy trying to gather all potential contestants for the show this year. I watched the last series of this show and thought it was absolutely amazing. If I wasn't in the profession I would be definitely applying! Please read up on all the information and if you do decide to apply, don't forget to let us know.

 

One of our cakes will be on the front cover of Wedding Cakes magazine - Issue 8. We were asked to create a fresh, modern wedding cake for this annual magazine and we also have a step by step feature inside to show how to make the cake.  We had great fun here in the kitchen designing the cake and we are all very proud of the result.

 

I am also visiting a large bakery brand on Friday to advise them on designs for royal wedding cupcakes so next month I will let you know all about it!

  

I hope you all have a lovely Valentine's Day and are well and truly spoilt. 

 

Until next month, happy baking.

Louise photo3
 

 Louise

Valentine Cupcakes

 

red cupcake wrapper

This little cupcake shows how effective it is to spray

the wrappers in order to achieve a new look. 

This one has been sprayed with Gold Lustre Spray and

I also sprayed the corner of the little red heart too.

 

Cupcake Wrappers on offer at £4.30 for 12

(were £5.06)



Buttercream Trick

red and white buttercream

It is very easy to make two tone buttercream swirls.  Colour some buttercream with red food colouring and spoon into the side of a piping bag fitted with a 1M tube.  Spoon some uncoloured buttercream into the other side, twist the piping bag top together and 'hey presto' two tone buttercream!

Say It With Sugar

letters cupcakes

These cute little cupcakes can be made by your little ones for their friends or by adults who want to get that special message across like my 'sexy beast' cupcake above! 

These delightful heart cupcake cases are great for

Valentine's Day but the alphabet sprinkles can be used for any occasion. Top it off with a cute icing dog if there's room.

Stylish Love

chocolate rose

For the more demure sweethearts amongst us, this stylish cupcake is baked in a red greaseproof cupcake case 

and decorated with a ready made chocolate rose and leaf

You can, however, always make your own roses with the amazing product Cocoform as you would make a sugarpaste rose. 

If you feel extra generous, tie it with one of our

beautiful valentine ribbons.

Pretty Little Cupcake

pink rice paper roses

Who said red and pink don't work together? I love this cupcake.

 It is so sweet and innocent, yet very naughty on the inside! 

I used the Wilton filling tube to fill this little delight with

homemade strawberry jam so that when my loved one

bites into it, he will get a gooey treat! 

The buttercream is coloured red and piped on randomly

with a star tube and then crowned with lovely pink wafer roses.

To keep the look of this cupcake very pretty,

I finished it off with a delicate bow made from our

sheer pink ribbon range.

Cupcake Vamp

sexy black bow

Now this little devil is for the cheeky valentine minx!

A cupcake ladened with gorgeous thick buttercream and

studded with silver dragees has the real wow factor. 

If you would like to go further, attach a bow made with our showstopping glitter dot ribbon.

Sweetie Pie

stencil cupcake
I love this cupcake, in fact it's my favourite of this year so far.  So simple to make, just level off your cupcake with a knife (eat the excess that has been cut off) and choose the correct size of fluted pastry cutter to fit the top of your cake. 
These new valentine stencils are superb. 
Just lightly dampen the top of the sugarpaste and
lay one of the designs onto the surface.  I have used
'hundreds and thousands' to fill the stencil in.  Wait a few seconds and then lift off, gently.  Apparently
'hundreds and thousands' is not their official name,
it is nonpareils, so this is what you will find
them under on our website!
I think the finished effect is really lovely.

These stencils can also be used for sprinkling cocoa over on the top of your favourite frothy drink too!

Clever Cookie

large heart cookie

Have you ever walked passed Millies Cookies and swooned at the smell that seems to radiate from those shops? 

Well now you can make your own this Valentine's Day

with our new giant heart cookie cutter

It is huge and can be used with our I Love You cookie cutter set, as I have here.  I also used gold dragees, valentine ribbon and some cute red candy double heart decorations

all on a gold round cake drum.

Dotty Over You

spotty cupcake box

It doesn't get any cuter than this

red and white spotty single cupcake box

The cupcake inside is decorated 

with red hearts sprinkle mix and topped with a

red piped icing rose.  The white satin ribbon around

the box makes the whole gift look very professional.

Say it with Chocolate

valentine chocolates

Homemade chocolates or truffles look so yummy

in our clear rectangular boxes.

Tie a lovely red ribbon with white hearts on

for a professional finish. 

To make chocolates, choose a mould

from our vast selection. The hearts on the chocolates

are red sugar heart confetti.

Heart to Heart

double heart cookie

Fancy making some cookies for your fancy man?  We have a great new retro valentines 6 piece cutter set which are perfect for Valentine's cookies, treats and decorations. The set, which is pictured below, includes a double heart, plain heart and crimped heart, heart with arrow, flying dove and a cupid cutter.

They come nestled in a stylish retro design box which makes a lovely gift.  I have tried out the double heart with Prince William and Kate's initials on them just for fun. 

 

 

RETRO VALENTINES 6 PIECE CUTTER SET

ON OFFER

WAS £9.18   NOW £7.80

Click here

Wrapped in Love

valentine bags

The cookies above would look great in our fantastic

Valentine cellophane bags shown here. 

 

black box

If it is packaging you are looking for this Valentine's Day then look no further than our Valentine packaging section of the website.  I have tied an elegant red ribbon around a

black square box and popped a tiny red rose in the top

to finish this packaging perfectly.

 The LOVE Cake

We have designed a cake to celebrate the season of love here at CakeCraftWorld and the results are below.  I think you will agree that it really is beautiful and you will see it on some advertising we are doing in the most popular wedding magazines this Spring and Summer.  

 

gold love cake

 

This cake was made using the 24 carat gold leaf sheets.  It really does give a dramatic look to the cake.  The flowers used were our handmade sugar orchids and we sprayed them gold edible lustre spray.  The top hat was made freehand with Mexican paste.  The crown was made with a patchwork crown cutter and

then sprayed gold.
 

pink love cake

 

This cake was made the same way but the LOVE letters were sprayed with pink edible lustre spray.  The flowers were our handmade sugar orchids in white and then sprayed with pearl edible lustre spray.  The design on the sugar drape was achieved by using the scroll effect rolling pin.

 

LOVE letters 

 

The fantastic cutters used for this cake are shown above. 

They can be used a number of ways and are a very good investment.  Use them with Mexican or Flower paste

for the best results.

 

SPECIAL OFFER!

LOVE cutters now £5.85

That's 10% off

Click here 

Another cake idea for the LOVE cutters is shown below. 

I think it is a very simple yet effective cake for any occasion. 

The gold and red ribbon makes this cake particularly good for the Valentine season.

 

red love cake

Next Month's Issue....

As if we haven't had enouh love in the air this month, next month will feature some great ideas for throwing your own Royal Wedding tea party.  Plenty of wedding and vintage tea party ideas coming your way.
 
Until next month, keep your photos and emails coming in to me at louise@cakecraftworld.com
 
Have a great Valentine's Day readers! 

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