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The dried fruit is soaking, the pudding is ready to be stirred on Sunday, the internet shopping parcels are starting to arrive and the loft is open ready for the decs to come down. Readers, it can only mean one thing...Christmas is coming!
I have put together a bumper selection of the best products around this festive season and I just know that you are going to love them all. Also available on the website are some very special gift sets for that someone special. The gift wrapping is stunning and it will take all the hassle out of shopping for your cakey loved ones this year.
We had a blast at the London BBC Good Food Show! Our stand was so popular and the 'try before you buy' workshop an absolute winner. I have included photos below of some of the highlights for us including the spectacular cake we produced using all of the decorations made by our visitors to the workshop.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a special thank you to all of our readers. I hope you have enjoyed this year's newsletters and I look forward to bringing you more ideas, hints and tips in 2014.
Thank you to all of our Hall of Fame readers who have sent in photos of their masterpieces this year and to everyone who likes us on Facebook and follows us on Twitter.
Congratulations to all of our competition winners and good luck to Imogen Banks who won the Christmas Inspired Indulgent Masterclass day with Mich Turner of Little Venice Cake Company at The Savoy. I hope you have a lovely day and look forward to hearing all about it in a later newsletter.
Happy Baking
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Someone's Been
At The Pud!
This super cute novelty Christmas cake will put a smile on the faces of all ages from 1-100! Use a Christmas pudding mould with your favourite chocolate sponge recipe and cover with our Sattina real chocolate sugarpaste to create a mouth-watering dessert cake that could even be served with some double cream.
Invest in a holly plunger cutter to create perfect leaves every time and finally, put the sparkle into your Christmas by sprinkling red glitter (remove before eating) over the berries on the top.
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Rocking Around
the Christmas Tree......
At the top of my Christmas wish list has to be this fabulous Christmas tree tin. It comes with a perfectly sized red square cake drum so all you need to do is cover the cake and create your decorations. I used a selection of our Christmas cutters to adorn this Christmas tree and I used our Sattina sugarpaste for them all.
To make this gorgeous cake,
click below for a free download.
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Christmas Present Cake
Make your presents look good enough to eat this year using our set of 2 deep square tins. You can choose your wrapping paper colours to suit your own Christmas colour theme from our vast range of Sattina sugarpaste.
The best way to achieve perfectly sized sugar ribbons is using the ingenious multi-ribbon cutter.
TOP TIP Make a gift tag using florist paste which has been rolled out, cut into shape and dried over night until hard. You can write the message using an edible ink pen or pipe the writing in royal icing.
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Christmas Nostalgia
As a child I remember the extent of decorating our Christmas cake was cleaning off last year's royal icing from our plastic holly and robin decorations...how times have changed! You can bring those memories back to life with our retro range so have a browse and get all nostalgic.
TOP TIP Add a teaspoon of glycerine to your royal icing to keep it from setting hard. For a light, fluffy royal icing, try Squires Royal Icing Mix which will create the perfect snow scene cake covering.
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Express Cakes
If you don't have much time to spend on making decorations for your Christmas cake it doesn't mean it won't look spectacular. Our range of non-edible and edible decorations is amazing and will jazz up any plain white cake (including shop bought ones!)
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Christmas
Cookie Craziness
When Christmas arrives in my house, so does a teeny weeny bit of craziness. This is mainly shown in the absurd amount of decorations that are put up and also the abundance of cookies that are made to hang on the tree. Having a massive selection of Christmas cookie cutters does help somewhat and here are just a few of the ones that will be dangling off my tree this yuletide...
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Classy Cupcakes
These classy Christmas cupcake kits will definitely be in my shopping basket this year. Nothing could be simpler or more effective. Not only do they make lovely cupcakes for your guests but the packaging is so delightful that I am tempted to give them as presents to my cakey friends.
It's so lovely to know that the decoration is sorted and all I have to worry about are the lovely flavours that are going to fill these stunning cupcakes cases!
TOP TIP Add a little more glamour to these already chic cupcakes by spraying the buttercream with edible lustre spray
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One To Try At Home
This clean and simple sparkling Christmas Wreath cake is the perfect choice to try at home.
TOP TIP My latest 'Desert Island Decorating Tool' has to be the shell border mould which creates the most perfect shells around the bottom of cakes without ever touching a piping bag! Simply dust the mould with either a lustre dust or cornflour to ensure no sticking and then add Sattina sugarpaste, tidy up the edges and release from the mould. Looking at the picture below, would you know the difference?
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A Reel Ribbon Frenzy!
We have the best range of Christmas ribbons around this year and they are not just for wrapping around cakes either. Tie your cellophane bags up or even tie bows on your Christmas tree.
Click here for the full range.
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kid's Corner
These fun cupcake decorating kits are perfect for the little ones to do at home and are easy peasy.
- Stir up some cake mix and bake in the cases provided
- Spread some buttercream over the top of the buns
- Scatter the sprinkles over the top of the buttercream
- Push the toppers in to complete your masterpiece!
Browse our fantastic kits here:
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