ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 MAGAZINE 1 Cake (oct15):Layout 1 20/10/2015 09:14 Page 1 THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SUGARCRAFT, CAKE DECORATING & BAKING SHOW! ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 new new show! show! NEC, Birmingham Alexandra Palace NEC, Birmingham Fri 18 - sun 20 sat 16 - sun 17 Fri 4 - sun 6 march 2016 april 2016 november 2016 ‘A TASTE OF SUGAR’ WORKSHOPS :: THE CAKE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE :: INTERNATIONAL GUESTS DEMONSTRATION THEATRES :: AWE INSPIRING DISPLAYS :: CHOCOLATE WORKSHOPS SUGARCRAFT, CAKE DECORATING & BAKING SUPPLIES over 150 The world’s largesT and mosT coveTed cake exhibiTors! compeTiTions! WWW.CAKEINTERNATIONAL.CO.UK BUY TICKETS ONLINE 01425 277988 OR PHONE TICKET HOTLINE SAVE £2 OFF EACH ADULT & SENIOR TICKET WHEN ORDERED AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE SHOW MEDIA PARTNERS: SUPPORTED BY: C A K E - I N T E R N AT I O N A L @ T H E C A K E S H O W S 2 MAGAZINE ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Published by: Cake Masters Limited Telephone: 0208 432 6051 Party Cakes! Contributors: Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School Happy New Year! Callicious Cakes Sweet ‘n Sassy Fine Cakes Faye Cahill Cake Design mimicafe Union Crumb Avenue How was Christmas? I Editor’s Top Picks! La Cupella hope that you all had a A Pocket Full of Sweetness wonderful festive time Snow Globe Chokolate and are looking forward The Violet Cake Shop Afternoon Tea to all the cakey joy 2016 Cake Therapy Bloom Cake Co. will bring! Page 10 Sweet K This issue is dedicated Cakey Bakes Cakes to party cakes and we Totally Sugar have a range of different ChapixCookies projects perfect for many Purple Feather Cake Design celebrations. Verusca Walker First up we have a il mondo di ielle fabulous photo booth Valentina’s Sugarland cake from Laura Party in the Jungle Little Lady Baker Dodimead, of Cakey Bakes Cakes, something very Sophie’s Sweet Shop Tutorial different and quite cool! We have gorgeous little CUPCAKES & DREAMS cookies from Myriam Sánchez, of ChapixCookies and Anna Maria Cake Design Page 22 Paul Bradford creates a simple but totally effective Flappergasted Cakes jungle party cake - just check out how he incorporates Alma Pasteles a fabulous backboard into his creation which really IlusionaCakes brings his cake up a notch! Next is our gorgeous cover Barbie lo Schiaccianoci cake from Sandy Lawrenson, of Sweet ‘n Sassy Fine Cakes, why not try this bold design that can be easily Front Cover Star converted to a wedding cake design too! Last, but by no means least, is a modelling tutorial from Barbara Regini, of Barbie lo Schiaccianoci. A perfect little topper for any Photo Booth Sandy Lawrenson party cake! Sweet ‘n Sassy Fine Cakes Tutorial Packed into this issue we have two brilliant Editorial Team collaborations and some deliciously divine recipes for Page 54 you to try. In the expert seat we have Cake Masters Magazine Awards, Wedding Cake winner, Faye Cahill, Emily Gussin who answers a whole array of queries and problems, Rhona Lavis offering some great advice! Laura Loukaides We interview Calli Hopper, from Callicious Cakes, and Afternoon Tea Expert also the Cake Masters Magazine Cake Artist of the Year 2015. I really must say, her story is just so interesting! From her background, to her highlights, to top tips and Making of the Jennifer Rolfe - Jen’s Just Desserts plans for the future, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. Storytelling Chair Advertisements Make sure you unscramble our cake related anagrams in Page 62 our Elevenses section for your chance to win a fabulous collection of prizes from dotcomgiftshop. E: [email protected] ETeml:i l0y 2G0u8ss 4in32 6051 or 07939 562567 We really do love to feature as many cakers from around the world as possible, so if you would like to get in touch, email me - I would love to hear from you! 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MAGAZINE 3 ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Party in the Jungle Cake Tutorial 54 by Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School 22 Party Photo Booth Cake Tutorial by Cakey Bakes Cakes Champagne Bottle and Martini Glass Cookies by ChapixCookies 66 4 MAGAZINE ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Page Page Page 12 16 18 Contents 6 Baking Wish List 8 Out & About 10 Afternoon Tea: Snow Globe at Searcys, The Gherkin 30 INTERVIEW: Cake Masters Magazine Cake Artist of the Year 2015 Calli Hopper, Callicious Cakes 46 Elevenses - Ask the Expert, Competitions, Book Reviews, Bake Clubs + More! 50 COLLABORATION: It’s A Small World, A Tribute to Children from Around the Globe 62 The Making of The Storytelling Chair by Jacqui Kelly, Totally Sugar 64 SUBSCRIBE to Cake Masters Magazine! 70 COLLABORATION: Be Team Red, United Nations of Sugar Art Tutorials 22 Party in the Jungle Tutorial, Paul Bradford, Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School 40 Bubbly New Year Cake Tutorial, Sandy Lawrenson, Sweet ‘n Sassy Fine Cakes 54 Party Photo Booth Cake Tutorial, Laura Dodimead, Cakey Bakes Cakes 66 Champagne Bottle and Martini Glass Cookies, Myriam Sánchez, ChapixCookies 7R6ecipePsa rty Girl Modelling Tutorial, Barbara Regini, Barbie lo Schiaccianoci 12 Original Plain Cheesecake with Strawberry Compote 14 Mojito Mini Cupcakes 15 Traditional Winter Wassail Mini Cupcakes 16 Caramel Apple Mini Cupcakes 17 Miso Caramel Cupcakes 18 Smoke and Stout Chocolate Torte 20 DouBble Cuhocoblateb Crelamy Ch eeNse Breowwnies w itYh Maledona Flarke Cake Tutorial 4by Sweet ‘n S0assy Fine Cakes MAGAZINE 5 ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Baking Wish List Mini Chocolate Champagne Bottle Rainbow Dust Colour Flo Liquid, Thick Scriber Needle Mixed Metallics Champagne Set New Year’s Eve Spring Green Pmecake.co.uk Flutes, Set of 4 Evilcakegenius.com Design-a-cake.co.uk £3.47 Oliverbonas.com $29.95 £1.75 £29 Carnival Mix Baking Cups Set Kenwood Chef Pasta Roller Stacked Parcels Cutter Vallila Interior Toivo Apron in Violet Candleandcake.co.uk Attachment AT970A Patchworkcutters.co.uk Vallilainterior.fi/en £4.99 Johnlewis.com £3.75 £18.90 £69.95 Tala Wooden Cocktail Sticks, Pack Pretty Pink Massa Ticino Sweetly Does It Decorative Wire Choco Caramel Curls of 200 Sugarpaste, 250g Cake Cooling Rack Lakeland.co.uk Cake-stuff.com Thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk Hartsofstur.com £2.25 £0.95 £2.39 £9.95 6 MAGAZINE ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Baking Wish List Gift Box Candles Cricut Explore One Broach Border, Single Pearls Prestige Sharp Top Edger Thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk Hobbycraft.co.uk and Cameo Mould by Edgers £3.50 £179.99 Karendaviescakes.co.uk Cake-stuff.com £15.50 £6.95 Yellow Ready to Roll Choco ABC Silicone Mould By Hooray Party Cake Toppers Cupcake Stencil Set, Pack of 25 Fondant Icing, 250g SilikoMart Easy Choc Candleandcake.co.uk Houseofbath.co.uk Renshawbaking.com Thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk £5.50 £18 £1.79 £10.99 Talking Tables Party Straws, Lakeland 20cm Springform Tin Exotic Lily CDA Gold Edible Wafer Paper 3D Set of 20 Lakeland.co.uk Embossers and Former Set Tiara, Pack of 10 Hobbycraft.co.uk £10.27 Fmmsugarcraft.com Design-a-cake.co.uk £1.50 £8.50 £2.99 Prices correct at point of printing MAGAZINE 7 ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Out & ABOUT This feature tells you about our travels out and about, events around the world and upcoming events! T… sheeins so mme loovnelyt chak ews foer W hallaacve &e G…romit’s BIG Bake … been amazed by a Motorbake It’s been great to see so many bakers don their aprons to raise To mark its birthday and celebrate thirty years in business, the money for Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity through the leading motorcycle insurance broker, Carole Nash, unveiled a life BIG Bake. There’s been bake sales up and down the country -size replica of a motorcycle made entirely from cake and chocolate. with everyone sharing their pictures. We’ve seen some delicious Measuring 2m in length and 0.9m tall, the unique creation is looking and brilliantly decorated cakes! modelled on the exact motorcycle that Carole Nash first insured back in 1985, an AJS 1927. Dubbed as the world’s first ‘motorbake’, it took To offer advice to the BIG Bakers, the charity event’s ambassador over a month to design, 375 hours to create and includes a whopping and former The Great British Bake Off contestant, Iain Watters, 60kg of chocolate, 25kg of icing and a gut-busting 23kg of cake mix. answered baking queries in a live Twitter Q&A using #AskIain. In total, the motorbake weighed in at a staggering 100kgs! Iain impressed Mary Berry with his creative flavour combinations and the Irishman is best known for losing his cool over a Baked Revealed as a surprise during the Altrincham based firm’s 30th Alaska in 2014! Since then, Iain has continued to inspire bakers birthday party at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum, the motorbake around the UK with his show-stopping recipes, so he was perfect didn’t hang around for long as it was enjoyed by the company’s for giving top tips. 300 employees. The cake was made by food artist Prudence Staite and her team, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. As unusual as the London’s much-loved cake and cupcake creators, Primrose creation is, this wasn’t the first quirky commission that Ms Staite has Bakery, also helped to bake a difference by supporting the BIG undertaken. Some of her other works of food art include a portrait of Bake! From 5th-13th December, all three Primrose Bakeries sold the Queen made from 2012 cupcakes, a life-size chocolate sofa and a special Tea and Digestive Biscuit cupcake – a tea and biscuit even Rome’s Colosseum made from pizza dough. flavoured sponge topped with tea flavoured buttercream and a crumble of digestive biscuits. A treat that Wallace himself would Prudence commented, “This sculpture has probably been one of the love! £1 from the sale of every cake was donated to help support most technically challenging jobs we have done as everything needed sick children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. to be the correct size and proportion to look as real as possible. The engine is hand sculpted from solid milk and dark chocolate, mixed For more information, visit: wallaceandgromitcharity.org with rice pops, built up in layers and carved using sculpting tools and a sharp knife. I also used modelling paste to create details such as the various cables, bolts and nuts. To make the nuts and bolts look real, I added some edible silver colour. The seat was created with thick sculpted chocolate, covered with a huge piece of dark chocolate modelling paste to create a leather style finish.” 8 MAGAZINE ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 … met some sugar people! To mark National Sugar Awareness Week (30th Nov – 6th Dec), the sparkling water maker, SodaStream, commissioned food artist Jacqui Kelly, of Totally Sugar, to carve giant statues illustrating the amount of sugar in fizzy drinks consumed every minute in the UK. The symbolic statues of a young girl, a teenage boy and a male adult went on display on 1st December on the Albert Embankment, overlooking the Houses of Parliament, ahead of the Parliamentary Reception being hosted by Action on Sugar. The giant statues, standing at up to 7ft tall, were made using the total amount of sugar from fizzy drinks consumed per minute by each of the different age groups: Children – 44.5kg, Teenagers – 158kg and Adults – 385kg. This feature tells you about our travels out and about, events around the world Jacqui couldn’t resist a project brief such as and upcoming events! this, so took on the project despite her busy schedule. She was grateful to receive help from Sarah King, Sarah Sibley and Barry Fermor. Despite the restricted time frame and some struggles with set up, Jacqui insists on sticking by her saying ‘’nothing is impossible in sugar’’. As the morning sun came up through the London landmarks, the sugar statues made a wonderful sight and this time, they had an important message. We are looking forward to… … ICES Mini Classes … The Great British Bake Off Professionals … EXPOGATO in Marseille The FL ICES Mini Classes are an event that We were very excited to discover that a GBBO The third Expogato fair takes place from 5th- you do not want to miss! Occurring every two spin off series for professional pastry chefs 7th February 2016 in Marseille at Parc Chanot. years in Orlando, this year from 15th-17th is coming to our screens soon! Michelin- Over three days, professionals and amateurs, January, instructors teach a wide range of starred chef, Tom Kerridge, will host the young and old, will be able to taste some techniques and sugar art skills. Classes range eight-part series. Fifteen teams of three sweets, attend numerous demonstrations and in experiences from beginner to the very professional chefs will compete to produce the learn a variety of techniques. Top international advanced so there’s something for all levels. most impressive miniatures and showpiece talent will be present, including Kaysie Lackey, With the number of students in each class desserts. The chefs will be judged by three of leading expert in sculpted cakes, and Denis kept low, attendees get personal attention and the industry’s most influential pastry chefs - Villard, master of blown sugar! Plus, Cake one-on-one instruction during the class time. Benoit Blin from Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Masters Magazine Editor, Rosie, will be on the This year, Colette Peters, Ruth Rickey and Cherish Finden from The Langham Hotel in competition judging panel. Nicholas Lodge are amongst the instructors. London and Claire Clark who has twice been To find out more, visit: www.flices.org/classes nToa mfinedd oBurtit maionr’se ,b heesat dp taos:t rwyw cwhe.bf.bc.co.uk To find out more, visit: www.expogato.com Photo credit: BBC MAGAZINE 9 ISSUE 40 | JANUARY 2016 Snow G lob e Searcy’s The Gherkin Travel - Taste - Try A Snowy Afternoon Tea... 40 Floors Up pop-up A traditional afternoon tea is served with generously sized finger sandwiches, adjective scones and petit-fours/desserts. For this festive theme, mini mince pies were also served, along with your choice of “denoting a shop or other business that Christmas-y cocktail options. I opted for opens quickly in a temporary location the “mince pie” flavoured cocktail, which and is intended to operate for only a did not disappoint in either flavour short period of time.” or kick! My favourite of the afternoon tea menu was the gherkin-decorated Pop-ups! They’re all the rage and due mini eclair, which obviously matched to their fleeting nature, so much more the Gherkin building! This is a lighter elusive and exclusive. When we were afternoon tea option than most, but our offered the chance to visit a pop-up snow waiter did say we could have refills of globe themed afternoon tea at the very anything if we wanted. top of the iconic Gherkin in London (at Searcys), of course the answer was YES! By the time this article is printed, the Snow-Globe themed pop-up at Searcys If you’ve ever seen or been to The The Gherkin will be coming to an Gherkin, then you know that the end, as this particular theme is only building’s roof is made entirely of curved scheduled to run from early December glass and steel. Imagine that setting 2015 to early January 2016. But, in the decorated with Christmas trees and true spirit of pop-ups, Searcys will be “snowballs” and clear perspex furniture, offering other themed pop-up events in complete with 360° views over London this special space. Sadly, we just missed from the 40th floor! Then add afternoon the Moroccan/Arabian Nights themed tea to this scenario and you have some pop-up here. We will definitely be winter magic. It is quite an intimate checking back to see what amazing new setting, with only about a dozen tables temporary dining experiences will be available. There is a dress code, but the oSfefearrecdy isn, Tthhee f Guthuerrek. in, 30 St Mary Axe, atmosphere was very relaxed and casual, London, EC3A 8EP and of course, EVERYONE needed to take www.searcys.co.uk photos of the amazing views. 10 MAGAZINE