What if 2018 was the year where you finally stepped out? What if you could finally start earning an income from cake decorating? What if you won a cake competition? What if you launched that cake business? What if, what if, what if... If you follow Sugar Sugar Cakes on social media or are a ...
5 Steps to Managing Difficult Clients
Here’s the hard fact…if you spend enough time making cakes and selling them to taxpaying humans, at some stage, you will encounter a “difficult client” down the road. Maybe you haven’t run into one yet, or perhaps you have run into quite a few. In whichever case, it is as unpleasant an experience as ...
Ask Me Anything – Series 1
Ups, downs, over & over again. That would pretty much sum up the early years of my cake decorating journey (though there were probably more downs at the start if I'm honest!). Hard work, mistakes, studying, constant deep learning & lots of perseverance has brought me to a place in ...
How to Create an Ideal Cake Workflow
"Hi, can I get a 2 tier cake with polka dots and a teddy bear topper tomorrow?" The all too familiar email pinging at 5pm on a Friday evening. Cue the exasperated groaning & facepalming. No my dear sweet desperate lady in my email, sadly I cannot. What is the issue here you ask? A lack of ...
Gluten Free, Vegan & Dietary Cakes Business & Cake Tips [Expert Interview]
CAKE CONVERSATIONS WITH 'FROM THE WILD' Wildly creative, generous and raw. These are the adjectives (amongst many others) that come to mind when you first lay eyes on the earthy creations of 'From the Wild' by Shanti Wilby. She is the perfect illustration of someone turning a need into ...
7 Must-Know Questions to Make the Perfect Ganache (+ Free Ganache Calculator Tool)
"How do I fix split ganache? How long can I store ganache..??" If you've got a burning Chocolate Ganache question, then you've stumbled across the right place my friend. So many bakers have a love hate relationship with the stuff. Love due to the sheer delight of its decadence and versatility; and ...
Painted Buttercream Rose Cake: My 4 Step Design Process
Another Monday, another blog post! I hope my efforts to drive away some of your "Monday blues" with these cake blogs are working ;P I made this cake for a sweet friend waaaaay back at the start of the year. Baby raising, business running and so many things in between and I can finally, ...
Keys to Creativity for Cake Decorators – Part 2
I was hit by a sudden realisation a few months ago… Creativity is like a muscle. It can either be trained up, stretched till it knows no bounds, or it can be neglected, uncultivated and left to deteriorate into a flabby mass (a bit like my post-pregnant belly did..oops). With this in mind, in last ...
Keys to Creativity for Cake Decorators – Part 1
There’s something I hear a lot of people (and surprisingly cakers) say that I gotta admit, bugs me a little. Wanna know what it is? It’s the phrase “I wish I could be creative like you are”. Wanna know why it irks me (and sometimes makes me a little sad)?. Cause the fact is, every single ...
How I Accelerated My Cake Skills in One Year
Bubbly fondant, rounded edges, floppy ruffles, buttercream craters, dry cake, split ganache, elephant skin & cracked cake pops. This was the story of my life in my first 6 months of cake decorating. And being a serial perfectionist, my frustration grew month after month in my futile pursuit of ...