Bake & Decorate

Baking Heaven is a brand new magazine series which indulges all your cooking and baking needs. It will feature the popular titles Cupcake Heaven and Baking Heaven, and you will also be treated to special magazines about cake decorating, cupcakes for kids and much more. Each issue will be packed with inspiring recipes and projects, beautiful photography, and the chance to learn new techniques and take your cooking and baking skills to the next level.

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Cake collaboration • Social media has a wonderful way of bringing people together, and Shashi Fonseka, a cake artist from Sri Lanka, certainly did this through Facebook with her cake collaboration Awareness of Climate Change and Wild Conservation by Sugar Artists.

Ask the expert • We ask our Bake & Decorate contributors those need to know questions that may have been stopping your baking and caking journey and causing a bump in the road. What questions have you always wanted to ask?!

COLOUR POP!

CAKE HEAVEN • Get creative with loaf cakes and tasty bakes!

BREAD FOR BEGINNERS • We know bread baking can be intimidating, but these foolproof recipes by Kitty and Al Tait are a great place to start your love affair with loaves!

Indulgent vegan • Not just for vegans, these sweet little delights by Maryanne Hall from Viva!’s Vegan Recipe Club (www.veganrecipeclub.org.uk) are just as delicious as their dairy and egg-filled counterparts!

CORNFLAKE TART

FREE-FROM BAKING WITH FREYA COX • “Battenburg is a classic! Both delicious to eat and impressive to look at. Pink and yellow are perfect shades for spring, but get creative and use whatever colours you like!”

CUPCAKE HEAVEN • Mini bakes, maximum indulgence!

BISCUIT HEAVEN • Bite-size bakes to enjoy with coffee!

TEATIME TREATS • Enjoy an indulgent afternoon tea with friends!

Cakes & Bakes with JULIET SEAR • Edible flowers and fruit slices are a beautifully simple way to decorate your cakes and bakes! These impressive ideas from Juliet Sear will look gorgeous at any celebration or summer gathering.

AIR FRYER NIBBLES • Hungry? Have an air fryer? You’ll be tucking into these satisfying bites in no time!

Pick of the PRODUCTS • TREAT YOURSELVES TO THE LATEST PRODUCTS TO HIT THE SHELVES!

IT’S A WRAP • Simple but effective – adding a sugarpaste wrap to a plain cake tier adds texture and dimension, which is perfect for weddings.

NAUTICAL INSPIRATION • Golden highlights, sugarpaste rope detail and gentle paint strokes - this striking blue and gold cake is perfect for a wedding by the sea!

THE CONFIDENT CAKER... • If you want the confidence and clarity to ‘go pro’ with your baking, join Bell as she puts ‘Mind over batter’ with practical techniques to master your mindset, manage your emotions and take you where you REALLY want to go.

DOGWOOD FLOWERS • In this month’s flower tutorial Veronica Seta creates beautiful dogwood flowers using flower paste and moulds.

STONE ROSES • Soft muted tones of blush and stone are all the rage right now, and this contemporary boho design is the perfect marriage of texture and colour. Creating this on-trend heavily textured stone is a great way to use up dried pieces of sugarpaste and the beautiful blush reflex roses make the perfect complement to natural grasses.

YOUR GUIDE TO COLOURING BUTTERCREAM • A huge part of carrying out your creative vision with cake design is getting your buttercream colour palette to look like what you pictured it in your mind. As with anything, getting buttercream hues just right will involve practice and finding products that work best for you. This guide will show you how I mix buttercream colours, whiten buttercream, and make dark colours (like black!), and all my best tips for success…

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