Cake Decorating, Cupcakes and Cookies – Totally Sugar Crafts Blog

Top your cupcakes with gorgeous soft swirls of buttercream. Follow our easy recipe for a delicious topping or filling for your cakes. Makes enough for 24 cupcakes or 1 large cake. Halve the mixture for less butter cream. You Will Need: 280g Unsalted Butter 560 Icing Sugar 3 tbsp Milk 2 Drops Vanilla Extract Method [...]

A Christmas cake at tea time is an essential part of Christmas. Make our modern design Spot & Holly cake to bring a bit of cheer to your table. Everything You Will Need: 1) A square cake that has been covered in Marzipan and white Sugarpaste 2) Red Ribbon 3) Small Holly Cutters Holly Cutters [...]

These Snowman Cupcakes couldn’t be easier to make yet give you the wow factor. Our easy how to guide takes you through the easy steps of creating your own Snowman Cupcakes this Christmas. Click image to enlarge. You Will Need: 1) Circle Cutter 2) Sugarflair Party Green 3) Sugarflair Paprika/Flesh 4) Fondant 5) Edible Black [...]

How To Use A Christmas Tree Mould This guide will show you how to make these gorgeous little Christmas tree cupcakes. You Will Need Tree Mould Holly Green Paste Colour White Fondant/Sugarpaste Gum Tragacanth Or Florist Paste Christmas Red Paste Colour Chestnut Paste Colour Edible Glue 1) Take your sugarpaste and colour it with the [...]

These biscuits are inspired by Fiona Cairns Wedding Biscuits on ITV’s Home Of Fabulous Cakes. Bag or box these buttery fondant topped festive biscuits for the perfect little gift or make for a tea time treat. What You Will Need Star Shaped Cutter 380g Plain Flour 1/2tsp Salt 250g Unsalted Butter 125g Caster Sugar 1 [...]

How To Use A Silicone Reindeer Mould This quick guide will explain exactly how to create a Reindeer Rudolph character head suitable for a cupcake and Christmas cake using a silicone mould. 1) Take your coloured sugarpaste (we have used Chestnutfor the head and chestnut mixed with a littleLiquoricefor the antlers) and either mix with [...]

These grown-up cupcakes are a wonderful treat. The recipe I have used is from a great blog called http://www.ourfamilyeats.com. The buttercream frosting rather than the cream cheese frosting attracted me and it really is delicious! I have slightly altered the recipe and the measurements were originally in US measures so I have converted the ingredients. [...]

When I saw this on Loraine Pascales easy cooking tv show ‘Fast, Fresh & Easy Food’ I knew I had to make these. They were very quick and extremely moreish! I decided to make them a little bit Christmassy by adding some gold stars. They would be great for a gift or a tea time [...]

Here’s our guide to modelling tools, one of the most useful and essential items a cake decorator can have! Bone Tool Use this tool to smooth and form perfect petals. Also handy to gently push into icing and make holes. Shell Blade The blade tool is one of the most popular tools. Cut and trim [...]

Chocolate ganache is the perfect addition to any chocolate sponge. Pipe it, swirl it, smoooooth it over a cake. Here’s the easiest ganache recipe ever and makes enough to cover a 9inch round cake. What you will need 115g (5 oz) Dark Chocolate, cut into small pieces. 155ml (5 fl oz) Double cream Method 1) [...]