Two nations, divided by a common language. But, in the cake world that language doesn’t always seem so common.
We’ve put together this handy guide of terms that will have you understanding your saran wrap from your cling film and your icing sugar from your confectioner’s sugar!
Continue reading “British and American Cake Terms Explained”
Need to cover your cake boards but unsure of the length of ribbon you need? Our handy guide gives you the exact measurements needed for both round and square cake boards.
Round |
Board Width in Inches |
Square |
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| Circumference in Inches |
Circumference in Centimeters |
Sides in Inches |
Sides in Centimeters |
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| 4.14 | 10.52 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 12.70 |
| 7.29 | 18.51 | 2.00 | 9.00 | 22.86 |
| 10.43 | 26.49 | 3.00 | 13.00 | 33.02 |
| 13.57 | 34.47 | 4.00 | 17.00 | 43.18 |
| 16.71 | 42.45 | 5.00 | 21.00 | 53.34 |
| 19.86 | 50.44 | 6.00 | 25.00 | 63.50 |
| 23.00 | 58.42 | 7.00 | 29.00 | 73.66 |
| 26.14 | 66.40 | 8.00 | 33.00 | 83.82 |
| 29.29 | 74.39 | 9.00 | 37.00 | 93.98 |
| 32.43 | 82.37 | 10.00 | 41.00 | 104.14 |
| 35.57 | 90.35 | 11.00 | 45.00 | 114.30 |
| 38.71 | 98.33 | 12.00 | 49.00 | 124.46 |
| 41.86 | 106.32 | 13.00 | 53.00 | 134.62 |
| 45.00 | 114.30 | 14.00 | 57.00 | 144.78 |
| 48.14 | 122.28 | 15.00 | 61.00 | 154.94 |
| 51.29 | 130.27 | 16.00 | 65.00 | 165.10 |
| 54.43 | 138.25 | 17.00 | 69.00 | 175.26 |
| 57.57 | 146.23 | 18.00 | 73.00 | 185.42 |
| 60.71 | 154.21 | 19.00 | 77.00 | 195.58 |
| 63.86 | 162.20 | 20.00 | 81.00 | 205.74 |
By Julie Askew
So what is Kanzashi? Well to put it simply, it’s an inspirational Japanese art form which uses silk ribbons to make petal shapes. These shapes are then combined to create stylised flowers which are used for hair ornaments (imagine here a Geisha in full dress) and all kinds of decorative work.
Continue reading “Introduction to Kanzashi for Cake Decorating”
Recipe for my “Honey Gingerbread”. As soon as i started decorating cookies I fell in love with the traditional look of the European countries and knew the artists I admired so much were decorating on a special cookie I was not familiar with and I started doing research.
Continue reading “Teri Pringle Wood’s Flavourful Honey Gingerbread Recipe”
Ceri Griffiths joined Katy Sue Designs for a Facebook live Royal Icing special in December and we had such a fantastic response with so many great questions! We’ve compiled the questions below with a detailed response from Ceri.
Here are some resources that we feel you may find useful. If you know of anything you think should be included here, please get in touch.
Please be patient with us while we build our resources section, the aim of Cake Doctor is to have unique content that is built from your questions and common problems.
We have linked to some external resources until we have gathered this content from our Facebook Live’s and questions from the Facebook group.
When designing a new template for top line work, working out where to position sugar embellishments, flowers or even inscriptions can be time consuming. Thankfully, Ceri Griffiths has spent some time working in Excel to create templates!
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