I have been a teacher for over thirty years and with that title comes a responsibility, a responsibility to nurture raw passion and talent and help guide it to its potential and beyond. I personally feel that first and foremost a teacher needs to be honest with their students, students are not stupid they know… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Just another day in Blogland

I’ve been a baker, confectioner, cake decorator and designer for over thirty five years now and royal icing has always been with me on my journey through life. Yes you heard me correctly, royal icing has been around continually, as with any other medium it comes and goes with fashion but royal icing has never… Read more »
Many of you who follow my trials and tribulations, the challenges offered up to me as I make my way through life as a self employed cake artist, may think I lead a wonderful jet setting life. Well let’s put that right, myself and many other cake and sugar artists travel the world sharing our… Read more »

My friend Biscuit and I would like to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas and a healthy, wealthy and wise New Year. Thank you for the love and support throughout 2015

As a commercial cake decorator it’s important to work quickly yet produce a high end product, over the years I’ve done a couple of classes to learn various roses and then taken elements from each class and developed a rose of my own which I can do quickly. My roses are not botanically correct, they… Read more »