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Heinz Salad Cream Cupcakes Recipe

Heinz Salad Cream Cupcakes Recipe

  Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with ...
Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup Cupcakes Recipe

Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup Cupcakes Recipe

  Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with ...
Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise Cupcakes Recipe

Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise Cupcakes Recipe

  Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with ...
Heinz Tomato Ketchup Cupcakes Recipe

Heinz Tomato Ketchup Cupcakes Recipe

  Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with ...
HEINZ X HUMMINGBIRD BAKERY

HEINZ X HUMMINGBIRD BAKERY

  We’ve teamed up with food icon Heinz to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with a difference. Each one features the...
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...
12 Party Cakes You Can’t Party Without

12 Party Cakes You Can’t Party Without

  Authentic American baking is all about bold cake flavours with unapologetically generous amounts of frosting. Which makes our indulgent recipes p...
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 ...
Pride 2019

Pride 2019

The Hummingbird Bakery, home of London’s favourite Rainbow Cake, is celebrating Pride this year with a special edition charity cupcake.   All pro...
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,...