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02-08-12

Photo courtesy of Konditor & Cook

A royal cakeover

As a final note, before we move on from cakes to a more energetic topic, our friends at Konditor & Cook (from whom we’ve had too many birthday cakes than is really healthy) have a great story about an enormous edible portrait…

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23-07-12

Prêt-à-Portea at The Berkeley

Top five for afternoon tea

The ritual of afternoon tea began in 1840 when Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, asked for tea and bread and butter to combat ‘that sinking feeling’ in the late afternoon. Then, people tended to eat just breakfast and lunch, so it’s hardly surprising she felt peckish. The Duchess began to invite her friends to join her and, before long, this pause for tea became a fashionable social event.

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Bake

21-07-12

Wedding cakes

A slice of married life

The gorgeous Choppy is getting married today! And while we wait to see kind of cake she tucks into, I’ve asked other hitched colleagues what baking beauties were served on their wedding days…

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20-07-12

The Great Sunday Cake Off

Yesterday, as part of Sunday’s seventh birthday celebrations, we held a cupcake decorating competition. From directors and art editors to sales execs and subs, everyone unleashed their creativity in their own special way using the decorating tools provided (and others found elsewhere).

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19-07-12

A shower of baby cakes

I made these little fellas for my friend’s baby shower party. Cupcakes and baby showers – they both seem to be the thing to do these days!

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17-07-12

The Sunday World Record attempt

Search online for ‘The World’s Biggest Cake’ and you’ll find a plethora of results. The world’s largest Christmas, Birthday, Wedding, Cupcake, even SpongeBob SquarePants cake will be there for you to wonder at and then wonder why.

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11-07-12

The Cake Master™

In the Brookes family, my brother Tim holds the title of Cake Master™. High-flying property litigator by day, calorie craftsman extraordinaire by night, he produced this little (sorry, ENORMOUS) chocolate and salted caramel beauty – officially the best cake I have ever been made – for my 29th (ahem) birthday earlier this year.

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09-07-12

Easy Elmer

Our celebration for Tobias’s first birthday was coming up and we needed to inject some colour into this winter baby’s party. Elmer is a classic kid-pleaser, and a very cheerful little elephant, so we decided to work our theme around him.

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