Cake making tips post updated with further tips and links to my favourite cake recipes
Updated April 2017
Sections in this post:
- Less is often more!
- Flavour must come first
- The amount of ingredients needed for different sized tins (Victoria sponge)
- About cupcake sponges
- Flavouring a cake mixture
- Preparing the tins
- Baking the cakes
- Flavouring a baked cake
- Different types of icing: glacé, buttercreams; adding flavours to buttercreams; crumb-coating a cake in buttercream; fondant icings; ganache; mirror glaze
- Top tips for covering a cake in ganache or glaze
- The finishing touches to a cake (including piping, tempering chocolate and simple chocolate work)
- Recipes for standard cakes(cupcake sponge; Victoria sandwich sponge; whisked sponge; genoise sponge; Madeira cake. Click link to jump to this section
- Recipes for icings and fillings(salted caramel; standard ganache; quick fruity ganache; the silkiest buttercream; mirror glaze; drizzle cake topping). Click link to jump to this section
- My top 5 tips Click link to jump to this section
- Some of…
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