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Arctic antics

Arctic Antics by Emma Ball

Emma Ball is a multi gold award winning artist, owner of Emma-Lou Cakes and a Cake International Judge. Emma has designed this cute and fun sculpted polar bear cake and...

How to become a cake tutor with Paul Bradford Training

Sharing your cake decorating skills with others is one of the most rewarding things that you will ever do! Having literally made thousands of cakes through his shops, Paul decided...

Hannah meets Paul at Orlando!

When Paul met 11 year old Hannah Cox at Americas Cake Fair,Orlando,October 2017, he was bowled over by Hannah’s professionalism and talent for one so young. Cake Life Online...

Star Wars Cakes: Cakes from a galaxy far, far away

Star Wars Cakes – may the force be with your frosting…! To celebrate the release of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ we decided to ask some of the Pro members...

Pantone colour of the year 2018

Each year Pantone Colour Institute announces the colour that symbolises with global design trends and cultural mood. Pantone’s 2018 colour of the year is Ultra Violet....

Edible Retro Bow by Faye Cahill

Faye Cahill of Faye Cahill Cake Design the leading Australian wedding cake artist known as the Queen of Lustre, has created an edible retro bow so apt for this time of year!...

Isomalt Black Magic tier by Bloom Cakery

Anna Astashkina is the creator of Bloom Cakery (bloomcakery.com) and she is completely self-taught. Anna was born and raised in Russia and after moving to USA 3 years ago, found...

Forget Me Not: A big cake for a big cause

You may have seen this rather eye-catching cake (modelled above by the lovely Paul) floating about on social media recently? The Forget Me Not cake sits at 4 feet tall with 5...

A gay couple, a wedding cake and a court case!

From the cake store to the courtroom When gay couple Charlie Craig and David Mullins enquired about a wedding cake in 2012, little did they know that they’d be embroiled in...

Gluten free sponge recipe

Five of our Favourite Gluten Free Sponge Cake Recipes

Being gluten intolerant means you have to give up some of the tastiest foods out there, right? Well, in this day and age this isn’t so much the case. Fine food retailers and...

A Little Bit Of What You Fancy – Zoe’s Fancy Cakes Open New Shop!

Zoe says “10% Discount on all products and equipment (not the classes) to all Cake Life Readers! Just Call Into The Shop And Quote The Discount Code 10%ZFC And It’s...

Airbrushing Tips by Emma Ball

Airbrushing Tips by Emma Ball Emma Ball is a multi-gold award winning artist and owner of Emma-Lou Cakes, Manchester and is about to share some key tips to get an amazing...