How to cover a cake with fondant icing for a perfectly smooth finish with Martha Collinson. When using fondant icing it is important to place it on top of a cake covered with marzipan or buttercream, ...

Icing your Christmas cake is fun and a great way to get yourself in the Christmas spirit. You can keep it simple or go full-on-festive – the hardest thing is deciding how you want to do it. With a bit ...

A wedding cake is one of the most important parts of the celebration, dating back to ancient Rome. It had a simpler outfit then, with a flaky texture made of barley. Nowadays, wedding cakes have ...

Long snubbed by serious pastry chefs, the most malleable of icings is making a comeback. Fondant and marzipan fruit top vanilla sponge- and chocolate blackout cakes created for T by Sarah Hardy, the ...

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4. Grease and line a 30cm x 23cm (12in x 9in) traybake tin with baking parchment, and pour in the vanilla Genoise cake mixture. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until ...

If you make this cake well in advance and plan to store it, you’ll need to “feed” it with extra rum every week or so. Unwrap the cake, drizzle rum over the top, wrap it up again and re-seal in its ...