How to layer, ganache and cover a cake
How to make Italian Meringue Buttercream
How to make a scallop edging on your cake
Desserts & Slices
Italian Meringue Buttercream (also includes the caramel IMBC)
Lemon Mousse in Chocolate Cups
Cake Pops & Push Pops
Australia Day ‘Lamington’ Pushpops
Cupcakes
Ice Cream Sundae and banana split toppers
Cookies
Peppa Pig Cookies/Cupcake toppers
Fondant Tutorials
Owl (Gruffalo Owl)
Owl (Cute Owl)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Food, part 1
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Food, part 2
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Food, part 3
Cakes
Blue Ombre Cake (Carlton Football Club Cake)
Parties
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Party
Savoury
Hi….I am in love with your website! You are amazing. I just started dabbling in cake decorating. The hardest thing for me is getting the fondant onto the cake smoothly without the pleating. Do you have a tutorial on how you do it?
Hi Jamie
Thanks for you lovely comments!!! I actually just made a video on covering a cake with fondant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ueaRwNFgc
Hope that helps!
x
Hey ,u r simply amazing . I have to make a cake for a penguin themed party and ur tutorial for penguins is amazing ,I want to make a igloo ,could u plz help ,thx !!!
Hi Ayesha and thankyou for your lovely comments
I would probably make an igloo cake using a bowl to get that dome look – so a pudding bowl or pyrex bowl. Then, ganache it and cover with fondant and then lightly carving in the igloo lines. You could also dust on some pearl lustre.
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Hi Bronnie,
I just love your blog and am totally inspired to try some of your wonderful recipes. I’m sure I saw mention on an orange (or was it lemon?) mudcake somewhere on your fb page and was looking for a recipe on here. I’ve been playing it fairly safe with cake flavors and have only tried my hand at white choc mud, choc mud and marble mud. If you could direct me to any other dense cake recipes that would be so fantastic. Thank you again for such a wonderful resource! x
HI Jacinta
So sorry for the delay in responding!
I LOVE the lemon mud cake and the recipe is here http://bronniebakes.com/2012/04/15/ombreruffles/
it is SO delicious and now that you’re an IMBC master – you have to try the lemon curd version!
xxx
Oh thank you so, so much! Will go beautifully with your IMBC too. Really appreciate it and will let you know how it goes. Have a great Wednesday x
Bronnie, I am going to try an ombre cake this weekend and was wondering how you put on your top layer (on the blue engagement cake you made). Did you do a very large cirgle and scallop and ruffle the edges and place over the cake? Or something else?
Jo
Hi Jo
I covered the cake in white fondant and the top ruffle was white, so I just put white ruffles like I had been doing for the other colours. Is that what you mean?
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Hi; pls do u have a tutorial for making a shirt & tie cake. Thx a lot; await your reply
HI Bube
No, at this stage I don’t. Maybe in the future!
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Hi Bronnie, I love looking at all of your cakes! So inspiring! I am making a mermaid ombre ruffle cake for my daughter’s birthday party on Sunday. Just wondering what your advice would be on how much fondant I would need to cover the cake as well as do the ruffles for an 8inch cake? Also, in this heat (I live in Ipswich), how soon before the party would you advise decorating?
Thanks!
Hi Karen and thankyou for your lovely comments!!
Sounds like an exciting cake for you daughter
Gosh, I’m really terrible knowing how much fondant you would need as I buy my fondant in 7 litre tubs. But it wouldn’t be more than 2 kilos. You will need to firstly cover it and then use more fondant for the ruffles. It will really depend on how thickly you roll out your fondant.
I would ganache your cake friday night and then cover and ruffle on saturday… however you could do it friday and keep it in front of the air conditioner if it is a stinking hot day! If you do it on the friday (and if you have lots to get done, it may be easier), I would just go with a ganache filling or no filling at all.
personally, I always cover my cakes the day before
All the best and I’d love to see a pic once you’ve finished!!
x
Hi Bronnie, i LOVE your cakes and think you are so talented the way you make something so skilled so accessible to novices like me! I used your gruffalo tutorials for me twins 3rd birthday cake (i tried to email you a pic but not sure it got through) and am now working on the food for the hungry caterpillar cake for my youngest’s 1st birthday
Just wondered what you did for the actual cake… my idea is to do red and green layers for each cake to match the caterpillar but not sure what size the two tiers of cake are on yours and how you iced them (not done this before….) i find you’re written tutorials easier as i can’t hear so am probably missing vital instructions in your videos!!
Keep up the good work!!
Melanie x
Thankyou so much for your lovely comment Melanie!
and wow – you have 3 close in age like me! You are obviously a natural, judging by your Gruffalo cake so I can’t wait to see what your VHC cake looks like!
The actual cake was very boring!! just a plain chocolate mud cake from memory. More than happy to help you if the videos are too hard. I ganached my cakes and then covered them with white fondant.
xx
Yup twins and a baby – all girls! Such fun! And like you i do most of my stuff at night when they are asleep
I think its a credit to you and your fab tutorials that the gruffalo characters turned out so well as i wouldn’t have known where to begin without your step by step guide. I hope i do the VHC justice too!! Will come back to you if i need extra help with the ganaching, covering and stacking when i get to it …
Melanie x
Hi AGAIN Bronnie hehe. Just wanted to let you know that I mentioned you in my blog, I hope you don’t mind. I just so love yours and wanted to share it.
Thanks again for all your help – Ellen-Marie
http://seveno1designs.com/2013/01/16/the-cake/
Thankyou so much Ellen-Marie – you have such a lovely blog!
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Oh great thankyou.. I’m going to give this a try.. Not that it will look like yours but I can only have a go. I’m assuming they are little mini balloons tied to a stick..
Thank you so much. I stumbled across your page via a pinterest pin. I was looking for a birthday cake for my son who turns one in a couple of weeks and I fell in love with your caterpillar cake. Thanks for the great tutorial.
I also like your cake-ball recipe, but I can’t get TimTams here. What do you think could be used instead? Would Twix work as well?
Hi Irene
Thanks for you lovely message!
I also use Oreos and they work really well. Do you have those?
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Hi Bronnie, just wondering when you make a cake with a few tiers – do you use reinforcements to make sure the bottom cake can hold the weight? I was wondering if you have a video on it, or any tips?? Thank you!
Hi Ellen-Marie
Absolutely!! I have a video here which is how I stack my cakes and use cake dowels. Hope it helps!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5nupcCIng
xx