Le Cordon Bleu’s guide to… baking with fruit
Julie Walsh, the Head Pâtisserie Chef of Le Cordon Bleu, one of the leading schools for culinary arts, wine and management, has shared some tips for choosing the right fruits for your recipes, desserts and cakes, More...
Biscuit 101
Soggy or dry? Too chewy or too crumbly? Grow your skills with our top biscuit baking tips. As The Great British Bake Off is back tonight with biscuit week, we thought it only fair to share everything that we’ve More...
A beginner’s guide to icing biscuits
If you’d like to try decorating your freshly baked biscuits with royal icing but don’t quite know where to start, help is on hand. Following on from the lovely rocket biscuits Hayley Evans from Temper More...
How to: Make a naked cake
Ever wondered how to create the naked cake finish? She Who Bakes tells all here… The naked cake is a trend that is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Britt Box from She Who Bakes shares her foolproof More...
Set up on your own cake business
Starting a cake business can be a daunting task, so we asked Paula Wilkinson at Mum’s Bake Cakes to share the secrets to successful sales. I’m thinking of setting up my own cake business, where do I start? Many More...
Your ultimate guide to pairing cake and wine
We are obviously big cake fans, we believe every day is cake day But bring cake and wine into the mix, well now, how does that work? Maybe that sounds really weird but there is no shame in putting your two favourite More...
Learn from the masters – Marriage’s Millers
W & H Marriage & Sons Ltd has been milling flour in Essex since 1824. Marriage’s Millers was founded by twins William and Henry nearly 200 years ago. Today the fifth and sixth generations of the Marriage More...
Advice for making flawless macarons
Macarons are fragile and fiddly French sandwich cookies, they are made up of ground almonds, egg whites, and sugar. The options for macarons are endless when it comes to fillings, flavours and colours! There are More...
Useful Printable Baking Guides
Want to know how to split ingredients in half? Or what to substitute an ingredient with? These guides are visual and perfectly printable so you can stick it in your recipe book and refer to it whenever you need More...
An Eco Guide to Home Baking
If you only bake regularly or not very much at all, what would a zero-energy cake mean to you? Perhaps you’d think it was just what someone else had made. Time to find out… This article was originally from More...
