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 ...