If there are two things I love in this world (aside from cats, and pyjamas, preferably cuddling a cat while in my pyjamas) it's cakes and shiny things. Even better when those last two things come together, shiny things on cakes. Which is why I wanted to tell you about this little trick - how to make the shiniest edible metallic paint. I discovered this way of making extra shiny metallic paint quite by accident, while making a gum paste drum kit for my honorary Grandad’s birthday. His drum kit is kind of a deep red metallic colour with a high shine finish and I knew I wanted to match it as closely as possible and get it as shiny as ... continue reading...

You know the saying “bigger is better”? Well, as a rather short and generally small person, I prefer this one: “good things come in small packages”. Because small is cute and fun and, you know, bite sized. A couple of years ago, one of my best cake friends tricked me and a few others into thinking a tiny cake she had made from play dough with her kids was a regular full sized cake. In the picture it really looked as though it was. I felt silly for being tricked, but it was of course, hilarious. That gave her the idea to create a Mini Cake Challenge competition on the Facebook page that we run for New Zealand cake decorators, challenging ... continue reading...