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Cakes Aroundthe WorldFeature

Is your cake in our October Hall of Fame?

Niki Tomkinson the baker with a heart of gold

AutumnCompetitionWinners

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BAKING ~ DECORATING ~ SHARINGHello everyone, welcome to our October newsletter!

It has been a really busy month with so much going on!

Firstly, I am loving the front cover of this issue! I have decided that going forwards, I will be featuring your amazing cakes on the cover of our magazines, so please continue to share your creations on our Cake Masters facebook wall.We have a special feature telling you all about our competition winner Becky Brine from Bubbas Bakery which was part of her overall prize.

We have a a Halloween theme throughout this issue with some awesome tutorials; some great skull cakes, and a fantastic article from Posey Furnish telling us all about the celebration that is Halloween.

One of the best bits of this issue has to be the Cakes Around the World feature. We had so much fun researching this, and looked high and low for the best of the best. I hope you like this feature as we very much enjoyed putting it together for you.

As we have mentioned before, this magazine with act as a bit of a round up, incase you might has missed something on facebook. As always am in awe of all the caking and baking skill out there and I will do my best to shout out all the amazingly talented cakers by featuring you in my magazine.

Looking forward to November already! Are you going to Cake International? We will be there, filming a short video - SO EXCITED!

Please do let us know about your thoughts, we love to hear your feedback on what you liked, what could be better, and what else you would like to see!

Enjoy!

Rosie xFRONT COVER: Becky Brine ~ Bubbas Bakery - Cake Masters Competition Winner


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Skull Inspiration ~ Page 11The Big Deal About Halloween ~ Page 16Halloween Tutorials ~ Page 18Vintage Competition Winners and our favourite entires ~ Page 21Running Competitions on Facebook ~ Page 29Tappit Tutorial from The Chocolate Strawberry ~ 30Autumn Competition Winners ~ Page 35The Baker with a Heart of Gold ~ Page 36Border Moulds Feature ~ Page 38 Cakes Around the World Feature ~ Page 39Cake International Memories from 2011 ~ Page 51Most Desired ~ Page 52Off Shopping ~ Page 54Chocolate Cake Recipes ~ Page 55Hall of Fame ~ Page 56

In this issue...

Halloween Tutorials

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Tappit Tutorial


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WINNER Becky

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Talented BAKER & Cake Artist

... and ONLY 20 years old

Congratulations Becky ~ Cake Masters Winner of the Birthday Cake inspired competition.

There is nothing we love more, than finding out more about you- the talent behind the cakes. We caught up with Becky to find out more.Q: Tell us a bit about you and your family

I grew up in Yeovil and had a very arty childhood. I used to spend every weekend with my Nan and Granddad pain


Q: What have you learned about yourself?

Ive learnt that being your own worst cri


Q: What has been your biggest challenge?

Myself. Ive never been someone with a lot of self condence and belief, so to work for myself has been a struggle. It doesnt maTer how many people tell me how good a cake is, all I can see are the aws. Its something Im denitely trying to work on though, and aPer a year Ive no


Becky in her dressing room

Becky in the local press

Becky posing with her entry

Q: What has been your proudest moment?

I think its safe to say taking part in an amateur cake compe

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Becky with the cakes she made for an event at Bulbarrow Farm which was the first big event she catered for >>>>

Below are some of Beckys other awesome cakes

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Are you ready for

HALLOWEEN...

Horse County Cakes

...feast your eyes on some awesome skulls!

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Rock Cakes

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Pauls Creative Cakes

Waterlooville Cake Company

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Candy Cakeroy

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Two Little Cats Bakery


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Posey from Cake Tails tells us why the Americans go all out during Halloween...

"Cupcakeologist" Posey Furnish is American by birth but, as she says, "British by choice." Posey grew up in the States amidst her mother's bespoke wedding and party cake business which - quite literally - whetted her appetite about the importance of flavour.She moved to London in 1997 to follower her heart and pursue a lifelong dream of living in England, and in so doing embraced British culture, including the cuisine, before settled in Wimbledon Chase in London.

Over the years she has worked in range of fields in the UK including schools, libraries, event management and communications but never lost sight of her passion for making food - particularly baked goods - taste as good as they look. When the American cupcake craze hit London, Posey was initially delighted but gradually became more and more disappointed and disillusioned as the interpretation of how a cupcake should taste was cheapened and weakened.

Posey's baking was always sought after by office colleagues and friends but it was only when she took the leap and began applying the principles of mixology and cocktail-making to her cupcakes that a business idea grew - CakeTails by Posey - in 2011. Her cakes were featured in a Daily Mail article in August and from there she's gained fans and praise for her baking from fans in Spain, Denmark, France and Australia.

Something else Posey is passionate about is raising her young son with an awareness of American culture, and in particular, American holidays and traditions. She shares her view of Halloween with us, to show the "real" side of this holiday, because it's one of her favourites (it's also her birthday!).

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Recently a friend and I were in a shop which had a few Halloween items on display. This friend is, like me, a fun-loving mum who enjoys celebra

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Halloween Tutorials

Tutorialfrom Best Friends

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Tutorialfrom

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Halloween Tutorials

Tutorialfrom Callicious

Cakes

Tutorialfrom

The Chocolate Strawberry

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Vinta! CompetitionWe ran a vintage cupcake competition a few months back. Here are the winners again and few of our favourite entires!

Sweets Treats

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Fleur Bites Cupcakery

May Bakes Cakes Hilary Rose Cupcakes

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Gills Cupcake Corner

Cupcakes Plus

Sweet Dimples Cakes

Creations By Becky

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Jemlewka's CupcakesCupcakes by Amanda

Neet's Treats

Darcy's Cupcake Creations

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The Cake CupperyIreland

Cake FolliesVicki's Cuppa Cupcakes

Mon Cottage Cupcakes

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Vinta! Competition

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RUNNING COMPETITIONS

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Stop wasting your time and money running random giveaways and make your fans promote your

business!

Try Top Tab - a voting competition platform for Facebook Pages. Take advantage of our FREE preview mode and amazing customisation options!

Fan Pages devoted to charity may use our platform completely free of charge.

TOP TAB

You commonly see Businesses running competitions that are against Facebooks Guidelines:

Running competitions directly on their Facebook Page.

You are required to use a competition application must not run a competition directly on your Wall.

Having users automatically enter by Liking a Page.

You may have them first Like your Page but this must lead on to entering a properly set up competition.

Conditioning entry in the promotion upon a user providing content on Facebook, such as posting on a

Wall of a Page, uploading a photo, posting a status update (such as asking Friends to Like the Page).

Any interaction a user takes must be using the competition application and not directly on your Page.

Notifying winners on their Facebook Wall. Most people do not realise that Facebook requires that you

notify the winner by email or other means, but not using Facebook in any way to do so.

The above was taken from a really interesting article where it goes on to talk about the Facebook page that was owned by a French retailer called Kiabi being deleted by Facebook for violating promotion rules.

Read the full article from SearchEngineJournal here >>

The safest way to run a competition is by installing an application like Top Tab>>

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Getting perfect lettering is not always easy and there are lots of different tools and bits of equipment you can buy, tappits being one of them.

Most people find tappits the hardest to use to we wanted to bring you a tutorial.

Sarah from The Chocolate Strawberry has a unique signature style with her cakes, were she combines the use of words on her cakes and cupcakes. We at Cake Masters are a fan of her designs and perfect finishes - it was only fitting to ask Sarah to put together a tutorial of us.

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Step 1Roll out a little flower paste until it's so thin that you can see some of the cornflour through it. Use the cutter provided with the tappits to cut a strip.Leave it to dry a little for a few minutes.

What you need:

- Flower paste- Cornflour for dusting the board- Non-stick acrylic rolling pin- Tappit cutters- Greaseproof/baking paper- Edible glue- Small paintbrush


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Step 2Press your cutter in to the icing and wiggle it back and forth GENTLYto get a clean cut.The cutters do get blunt after a while and will need replacing if youuse them a lot.


Step 3Tap your letter out on to the paper to dry completely.

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Step 4The upper case letters are easier to cut than lower case if you are just beginning.

I find the letter 'r' in this font is not very good, so I cut an 'n'with a scalpel to create a better shape.


TIP:The flower paste can be coloured as usual with gels or bits ofcoloured fondant. You can also leave them to dry completely and usemetallic sprays on them.As you get better, you'll be able to cut thicker letters.

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Step 5Place the dried letters on to the fondant to space, then push them in slightly to mark their position.Apply a few dots of edible glue to ensure they are stuck down. Using a tiny paintbrush really helps you get a clean finish.If you use too much glue the letter will become transparent.

SIMPLES!

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WinnersAutumn Competition


Cake-y-licious Sarah Pierce

Rosy Lai

Violet Beeton

Zoe Moss

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Dozens of brides had their wedding dreams shattered after the Brides of Portsmouth shop in Elm Grove Southsea suddenly closed up shop earlier this year. The company said that they were unfairly implicated in a show on Channel 5, Cowboy Traders in relation to a previous owner of the shop.

Niki Tomkinson from Sweet Creations went out of her way to make the cakes for the brides who had been let down and has been left out of pocket. We wanted to find out more about this lovely lady who saved the day for so many brides.

Q: Tell us a bit about you and your family

My names Niki & I am 33 years old. I live with my husband Stuart and we have been married for 10 years, we have 2 sons , Jack 9 years old and Alfie 5 years old.

Tell us a bit about your background:

I started cake making 4 years ago from my kitchen, just making the odd cake for family and friends. Word got around and I was asked to make more so my business naturally grew. It simply grew too big for my kitchen so I took the next step and got a little workshop. Tell us a bit about your business:

We opened our doors on the 7th August 2011, just carrying on making cakes and cupcakes. We were approached in March 2012 by the bridal shop Brides of Portsmouth to take on wedding cake orders, and in May 2012 we agreed to help with their wedding packages.

What happened with the company going bust?

I was notified by my friend who went to get her wedding dress and the shop was closed. I then contacted my contact in the company of which whom I thought was the manager who informed me they hadnt been paid for months and had left their jobs. A subsequent note was left on there website saying they would resume business on the following Tuesday. However, on when Tuesday came, a note was placed on the shop window saying that the shop had gone in to liquidation and customers should contact the liquidators. I then phoned Sharon Keates who worked for the company and asked what was happening. She told me that due to the Channel 5 program Cowboy Traders, they had suffered loss of business and could no longer trade.

What was the reaction of brides to the awful news? Panic, devastation, sense of worry and disbelief.

saved by a lady with a heart of gold...

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Why did you take it upon yourself to help?

I had been in touch with some of the brides via the social media network and I was made aware that some of them had already paid substantial amounts of money. I didnt want to be the reason they didnt have a cake on there wedding day. How much out of pocket are you? Roughly a few thousand pounds.

How much time did it take? Ive cleared the bulk of the orders now but still have a few remaining. What was the feedback from the brides when they heard you were going to do the cake? Very Happy that they didnt have to spend out any more money then they already had.

What is the feedback from the brides when they picked up their cakes?

We delivered the cakes to the venues, and all the brides have been happy with what they had received. How do you feel about what you did?Im just glad I could help them out , and appreciate all the thanks I have been given . Thanks for sharing your story with us!

Niki, Thats us back from honeymoon and

wanted to leave you some feedback for

your website as promised. We would like

to say thanks very much for helping us

with advice on the cake and what you are

able to provide, and for the actual cake

when it was made. The cake looked

fantastic and was exactly what we had in

mind, we would have no hesitation

recommending you to anyone else.

Thanks again, Gaz & Lorna Glenister

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Border moulds feature!

I tried border moulds from Marvelous Molds this month. The unity and preTy in pleats moulds are my favourites!

Our video tutorial can be viewed here!

Have a look at the collec

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As the temperature drops and the coats come out the cupboard, summer holidays are a very distant memory!

I went to Marrakech for a long weekend and it was just lovely! I wanted to dedicate the next couple of pages to cake based on certain countries around the globe!

First up, is this lovely suitcase cake and fancy globe from Amy Scott Cakes

Love the land on the globe, just fantastic!

Enjoy

Rosie x

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012 FRANCE

Beautiful Parisian cookies from Icing Bliss

Stunning black royal icing Eiffel Tower from blogger Me and Mine.

GO TO TUTORIAL >>>

Do you fancy having a go at making your own royal icing Eiffel Tower? Check out this awesome tutorial from Sugar Duchess!

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012 Italy...Awesome work from

The Cake Diosa.This cake took over 60 hours of labour

and was sold for $120 (only!?) and achieve a $10 tip! WOW is all I am going to say!!!pisa

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012 Santo"ni

Love these cupcakes representing Santorini.Lovely finish from Sweet Dimple Cakes

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012 EgyptThe best Tutankhamum cake

on the planet!Fantastic work from Extreme Bakeover

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Morocco

This Moroccan lantern cake from Heather Barranco DREAM CAKES

is absolutely stunning!The attention to detail is superb with every mosaic piece perfectly finished.

I went to Marrakech earlier this year and is was just so beautiful ~ below are some of my holiday snaps!

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012 China

Beautiful hand painted kimono cookies from Sugar Envy.

Visit their page to see absolutely stunning works of art!

Mini dragon cookies from Walking Down the Cookie Road.

Really easy to make, visit their blog to see step by step instructions on how to make these cute little dragon cookies.

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I am such a fan of Michelle Sugar Art. Her cakes are amazing and she is way up there when it comes to cake talent.

Michelle has some great videos where she shows how she makes cakes form start to finish - check the following videos out!

PLAY PLAY

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012USA ~New York

Stunning work of art from For the Love of Cake Custom Creations

in Toronto.

The sugar pieces around this particular wedding cake are simply beautiful!

VISIT THEIR PAGE FOR MORE STUNNING WORKS OF CAKE ART!

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The cake above depicts the African Safari experience perfectly, from the textured patterns around the bottom of the cake to the perfectly perched hat. Awesome work from Key Art Studio Cakes

Af"ca

We searched high and low for a cake that had the perfect African sunset with animal silhouettes. I love the gorgeous colouring and hand painted artwork. The giraffe on top is extra special!

Fantastic work from Frosted Memories by Emma

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ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2012UAE ~ Dubai

The iconic Burj Al Arab cake from Yeners Cakes.This cake has been engineered to sheer perfection

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Au&ralia

Excellent Sydney Opera House from Yves Cakes

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BAKING ~ DECORATING ~ SHARINGCake International

Memories from 2011

Are you going to Cake International at the Birmingham NEC this year? The show last year was simply brilliant, and a must go for anyone who sleeps, eats and bakes cake.

We will be going up on the Friday and will be creating a short video all about the show! If you see us filming say hello, as we will want to take footage of your opinions too!

If you are a stall holder or someone entering a competition and will be there on Friday who wants to be part of the video please register interest by emailing us!

DEMO tickets only

5 each!

...hurry they fill up quickly!PHOTOS FROM LONDON CAKE INTERNATIONAL 2012

PHOTOS FROM BIRMINGHAM CAKE INTERNATIONAL 2011

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MOST DESIRED

THE HOME MATSized for the HOME decorator. 22" X 22" Works perfect for HOME based cake artist with more limited work-space - cover up to a 12" cake.

THE ONLY FOOD SAFE VINYL FONDANT MAT AVAILABLE - This patent pending 2-mat system is a revolutionary way to roll out and cover cakes with fondant. Use this Food Safe tool and our method to make a Fondant cake and get professional results instantly!

27.99

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MOST DESIRED

Half Sphere MouldsSo the contestants on the GBBO really struggled with

making tea cakes, but actually... I am not sure it is that hard (she says...!!)

This mould is only 5.99 from Baked by Me and also includes links to a really handy step by step tutorial,

showing you how EASY making tea cakes are!

5.99

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OFF SHOPPING...

Halloween spooky house toppers

These topper come in a range of sizes and look brilliant on any cake. Sizes include 1.5 inch, 2inch, 7.5inch and 9.8inches.

4.50

16 Piece Decorating Tip Set

Petal Decorating Tips 61 and 97Writing Tips 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10Basket weave Tips 45 and 48Closed Star Tips 24 and 54Leaf Decorating Tips 74 and 69Open Star Tips 20 and 21.

11.99

Double sided cutter set

Plain on one side, fluted on the other and all kept neatly together in their own container.48 to 98mm Diameter. (1 7/8" up to 3 7/8"), Set of 6

3.49

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AMAZING CHOCOLATE C AKE RECIPE

Ingredients 50 gram(s) cocoa powder

(sifted) 100 gram(s) dark muscovado

sugar 250 ml water (boiling) 125 gram(s) unsalted butter

(soft - (plus some for greasing))

150 gram(s) caster sugar 225 gram(s) plain flour teaspoon(s) baking powder teaspoon(s) bicarbonate of

soda 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract 2 medium eggs

We asked you to share your best chocolate cupcake recipes with us and we tried the Devils Food Cake from Nigella. It worked an absolute treat for the cupcakes we made so thanks for letting us know about this recipe!

See the full recipe here!

Other recipes you told us about that we will try soon!

Old fashioned chocolate cake from NigellaChocolate mud cake from TWIS WeddingsPrimrose Bakery chocolate cupcakesChocolate Cupcakes from GoodtoKnowChocolate Oreo cupcakes from AmyWritingBrown eyed baker dark chocolate cupcakes

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BAKING ~ DECORATING ~ SHARING

Hall of FameFEATURING THE BEST CAKES POSTED ON

OUR WALL IN THE LAST MONTH

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Gruesome awesomeness from Gillian Bell from DeadBright Design

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These comic book cupcakes are the BEST I have seen.Favourite has to be the superman logo, but love the call out cupcakes too, had to include a close up of the cakes too!

Sweetcheeks Cupcakes

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Awesome cake from Het bonte taartje - the attention to detail is amazing!

Beautiful hidden design cakes from the amazing Cakes and Cookies Cupcake Wrappers

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This cake deserved its own page as it is so awesome! Wicked Goodies

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Gorgeous cupcakes with different textures and lots of different techniques used ~ BEAUTIFUL!

Vickis Cuppa Cakes

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