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Star Wars Cake

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Guys, I’m a little bit obsessed with this cake. If it wasn’t for the cutest little boy turning 7, I don’t think I would have parted with it. I was so over excited that the brief was Star Wars. I loved the new movie and have been wanting to make a mega Star Wars themed cake ever since. You can see my rough sketch for the cake below. It included his favourite characters BB8 and Chewbacca and, of course, the Millennium Falcon. It also has a Kylo Ren, whose light sabre is also the birthday candle AND (my favourite part) the Death Star, which is also a mini piñata cake. The cake itself is

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Pumpkin Piñata Cake

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I’m still putting together my Halloween outfit for this year. I’ve spent a long time in a Google search spiral for Day of the Dead make up tutorials, flower crowns and face gems (stay tuned to see how that turns out. Ha!). This year I’m mega excited for Halloween, I’m definitely ready for a night of fancy dress and spooky cocktails. I’ve been baking a few treats in preparation for this weekend, like this

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Cricket Cake

I can’t say I’ve ever watched a whole (or even half) of a cricket match. It’s definitely not my sport of choice, however, this cake might possibly be one of my new favourites. The cake was for my neighbour’s adorable son Jack who was having a cricket birthday party. I knew I wanted to use my mini hemispherical tins again to create a cricket ball just as I did here with the tennis balls. This time I wanted to give it more of a fun twist that the rest of the kids at the party would think was super cool. Filling it with

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