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How to bake the perfect pumpkin pie

How to bake the perfect pumpkin pie

  Follow our recommendations for the perfect pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving!   Keep your dough as chilled as possible Warm dough becomes oily and u...
Top tips for perfect frosting every time

Top tips for perfect frosting every time

Cupcakes and cakes wouldn’t be the same without their generous layer of buttercream or cream cheese frosting. If you’re easily lost in frosting, he...
Tips for baking in hot weather

Tips for baking in hot weather

  Summer can be a challenging time for bakers and cake decorators with the hot weather making frostings, sugar fondant and lots of other ingredient...
How to store cupcakes

How to store cupcakes

  Keeping your cupcakes indefinitely might be the dream, but these delicate, freshly baked beauties won’t last for long. Luckily, with some proper ...
How to Core and Fill Piñata Cupcakes

How to Core and Fill Piñata Cupcakes

Since we started making new Piñata Cupcakes, an M&M’s filled cupcake topped with buttercream frosting, we’ve had a few questions about how to f...
How to Stop Your Cheesecake Cracking

How to Stop Your Cheesecake Cracking

We loved dreaming up our Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe, with its crunchy, buttery base and creamy layer of Red Velvet cheesecake on top.   Indeed,...
What To Know Before You Bake Cupcakes

What To Know Before You Bake Cupcakes

With fifteen years of baking experience since we first brought American cupcakes to London, we’ve selected a few things every baker should know bef...
Making caramel tips

Making caramel tips

  Use caster sugar where you can, this is the easiest sugar to work with as the grains are finer and melt quicker.   Don’t work in a hurry. Cara...
All about your stand mixer

All about your stand mixer

If you bake with a stand mixer at home, you might be a little unsure of what all the various attachments are for and how best to use this essential...
Kneading bread dough

Kneading bread dough

Baking your own bread at home is easy and starts with a simple dough. Kneading is the process that brings the dough together, develops the strands ...
How to use a Piping Bag FAQs

How to use a Piping Bag FAQs

Brush up your techniques for writing and piping on cupcakes with some of your most frequently-asked cake decorating questions.   Watch our video gu...
What’s the difference between plain flour and self-raising flour?

What’s the difference between plain flour and self-raising flour?

  Adding a little flour power to your baking is an essential part of making delicious sponges, cookies and pastries. There are many different flou...