Mr Baker’s Blog from Mr Baker’s Cakes

Posting original cakes, recipes, tutorials and a whole lot more besides...

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Definitely one of my proudest achievements ever - bringing little Jacob’s impossible dream to life with a 1.6m tall show stopping cake, complete with music and movement...

“Introducing one little boy with a big imagination.

When little Jacob designed his own fifth birthday cake, he was inspired by his favourite film, with the design including all of his favourite characters, larger than life animals, music, movement and a lot more besides!

His godfather, cake blogger Rob Baker-Gall of Mr Baker's Cakes and Mr Baker’s Blog knew that this wasn’t something he could do on his own, so he reached out to his friends - some of the most talented cake decorators and artists in the UK - to achieve the impossible and bring Jacob’s dreams to life...”

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The Greatest Showpiece

The Greatest Showpiece. 199 likes · 2 talking about this. When a very special five-year-old has an impossible dream, it takes a very specia

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Probably one of my all-time favourite creations - a life-size Paddington Bear cake standing at three feet tall!

He was created entirely from cake for Cake International 2017 and scooped a silver award.

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I demonstrated how to make this super awesome Christmas Cake with a difference at Cake International in November.

Grumpy Pugs are kinda my signature, so loved being able to share him with everyone...

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I was honoured to be asked to create the centrepiece for the Sugar Pirates table display at Cake International 2018.

My pirate ship was almost entirely modelled from Renshaw’s Belgian Chocolate Modelling Paste, with the sails created from Saracino wafer paper. I airbrushed it all using my beloved Clairella Cakes airbrush and Spectrum Flow’s ethanol-based colours - designed to be able to cover chocolate.

The waves were hand-modelled from Renshaw’s Ready-to-Roll Icing in five colours, marbled together, before using royal icing and brush embroidery to achieve the foam.

Thank you to the Cake International judges for choosing our display as your favourite and thank you to Vicky Teather Sugar Artist for devising this wonderful collection and for all your hard work in bringing it to life! You rock!

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Check out the latest tutorial to be added to Mr Baker’s Blog - a fabulous Chocolate Grinch Cake Topper by the wonderfully talented Laura Dodimead of Life in Sugar!

Thank you so much to Laura for creating this super easy-to-follow tutorial for us all, using only a kitchen knife, a paintbrush and some Saracino White Chocolate Modelling Paste and dusts - head to the link to check it out now!

Tutorials

Check out my simple tutorials for achieving fab results on your next cake project… Christmas Cakes & Projects: Exclusive Guest Tutorial: L

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Find out how to make a super realistic life-size Pom Pom as part of my latest Renshaw tutorial, showcasing their gorgeous Colour of the Year for 2019, Cassis!

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Tutorials

Check out my simple tutorials for achieving fab results on your next cake project… Christmas Cakes & Projects: Exclusive Guest Tutorial: L

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You’ve seen unicorn cakes, you’ve seen reindeer cakes… but now, I give to you the Festive Llama Cake!

Find out how to make him in my latest FREE tutorial for my buddies at Renshaw, showcasing their four fabulous new colours released only last month and using Karen Davies Sugarcraft’s gorgeous Chunky Knit Moulds.

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Tutorials

Check out my simple tutorials for achieving fab results on your next cake project… Christmas Cakes & Projects: Exclusive Guest Tutorial: L

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Let’s start with the most recent - a traditional, rich, brandy infused fruit cake, topped with an RKT teddy bear - ready to raise lots of money for a local primary school...