A Basic European Sponge Cake Recipe

european sponge cake

The European sponge cake is a light and airy cake that contains three basic ingredients: eggs, sugar, and flour. It is very versatile – it can be eaten plain, it can be flavored and soaked with extracts or liqueurs, it can even be filled with whipped cream or buttercream, or it can be topped with … Read more

A Classic American Sponge Cake Recipe

a classic american sponge cake recipe

A good versatile sponge cake recipe is essential to any baker’s arsenal. Sponge cakes have two types: American and European. It is a great recipe to have on hand, because you can do so many things with it. You can serve a sponge cake plain, with a dusting of icing sugar on top or served … Read more

The Big Slice 14th August 2014 – the latest tips, tricks and tutorials in the world of cake

the big slice 14th aug 2014

The Big Slice 14th August 2014 – the latest tips, tricks and tutorials in the world of cake Good Morning Cakers! This has been a huge week on social media with a few cakey stories and techniques that have just gone nuts. So here’s to whats hot in the online space this week. 1. HOW … Read more

The Big Slice 1st August 2014

the big slice 1 staug 2014

The Big Slice 1st August 2014 Good Morning Cakers! Its been another huge week at LCDO HQ where we have been busy all week getting the new tutorials for you! I can’t wait to show you. Truffle Cake with Adam Cremona Adam shows you how to make this gorgeous cake which is such a lovely … Read more

The Big Slice 18th July

the big slice 18th july 2014

THE BIG SLICE 18th July Where we bring you the best of the week’s cake news. At Learn Cake Decorating Online, we bring you the best of what the cake world has to offer. Great news stories from around the globe and locally, extraordinary work, amazing tutorials, helpful hints and tips – and of course … Read more

Cointreau and Rosemary Cake Recipe

cointreau and rosemary cake recipe

Here is the only collection of triple-tested recipes that you will ever need.

Together with chef Adam Cremona, we came up together with a range of mouth watering cakes that can be used as dessert cakes and cakes under fondant or buttercream.

We have also included ganaches, buttercreams, syrups and jellies to be used as accompaniments to your cakes.

You will see a guide with each cake

GF – Gluten FREE

FC – Perfect for Fondant Cakes

BC – Perfect for Buttercream Cakes

DC – Dessert Cakes – Perfect just as they are

I hope you enjoy cooking with and using these recipes as much as we have enjoyed creating, styling, photographing and eating them!

Top Tips for Perfect Mud Cakes

top tips for perfect mud cakes

Top Tips for Perfect Mud Cakes The mud cake is relative newcomer to the cake scene, seeming to have popped up somewhere in the 1970’s. The first mud cakes came from America descending from the famed Brownie and Fudge, and originally contained marshmallow. Other derivatives of this cake are the Mississippi Mud Pie and Dirt … Read more

The Big Slice – 4th July 2014

the big slice

THE BIG SLICE Where we bring you the best of the week’s cake news. At Learn Cake Decorating Online, we bring you the best of what the cake world has to offer. Great news stories from around the globe and locally, extraordinary work, amazing tutorials, helpful hints and tips – and of course posts to … Read more

For The Love of Cake – Our Ultimate Cake Recipe Book

for the love of cake

Here is the only collection of triple-tested recipes that you will ever need.

Together with chef Adam Cremona, we came up together with a range of mouth watering cakes that can be used as dessert cakes and cakes under fondant or buttercream.

We have also included ganaches, buttercreams, syrups and jellies to be used as accompaniments to your cakes.

You will see a guide with each cake

GF – Gluten FREE

FC – Perfect for Fondant Cakes

BC – Perfect for Buttercream Cakes

DC – Dessert Cakes – Perfect just as they are

I hope you enjoy cooking with and using these recipes as much as we have enjoyed creating, styling, photographing and eating them!

Better Baking Basics

better baking basics

Here at Learn Cake Decorating Online we get lots of questions about just how to get perfect cakes.  This week resident expert Pam Doyle gives an answer to a very common and confusing area of baking. “I’m having a hard time following recipes, I don’t understand measurements .  I never learned how to measure liquids … Read more

Sticky Honey, Almond and Amaretto Cake

sticky honey almond and amaretto cake

Do you know much about bees? Did you know they are dying? Many people don’t realise just how critical to our ecosystem these little creatures are. I know if one stings you it can be a little annoying. Ok well maybe also annoying. But what will be even more annoying is living in a time … Read more

Dulce De Luche Chocolate Brownies

dulce de luche chocolate brownies

Dulce De Luche Chocolate Brownies Sometimes you just have to be bad. Like ridiculously, downright naughty kind of bad. Like lick your finger, lick the bowl and scrape out the last dribble of caramel from the jug kind of bad. So I have been. Bad, that is. Not the petrol station hold up kind, just … Read more

Rhubarb Yoghurt Cake with Sticky Rhubarb Sauce

rhubarb yoghurt cake

Rhubarb Yoghurt Cake with Sticky Rhubarb Sauce I have been a rhubarb lover since I was a kid. Stewed rhubarb and apple had a regular and much loved place on our dessert table as kids and so when I spied the Wild Strawberry and Rhubarb Yoghurt flavour, it was the first to be popped into … Read more

Almond and Pecan Coffee Crumble Cake Recipe

almond and pecan coffee crumble cake

Here is the only collection of triple-tested recipes that you will ever need.

Together with chef Adam Cremona, we came up together with a range of mouth watering cakes that can be used as dessert cakes and cakes under fondant or buttercream.

We have also included ganaches, buttercreams, syrups and jellies to be used as accompaniments to your cakes.

You will see a guide with each cake

GF – Gluten FREE

FC – Perfect for Fondant Cakes

BC – Perfect for Buttercream Cakes

DC – Dessert Cakes – Perfect just as they are

I hope you enjoy cooking with and using these recipes as much as we have enjoyed creating, styling, photographing and eating them!

Classic Sponge Cake

classic sponge cake

Here is the only collection of triple-tested recipes that you will ever need.

Together with chef Adam Cremona, we came up together with a range of mouth watering cakes that can be used as dessert cakes and cakes under fondant or buttercream.

We have also included ganaches, buttercreams, syrups and jellies to be used as accompaniments to your cakes.

You will see a guide with each cake

GF – Gluten FREE

FC – Perfect for Fondant Cakes

BC – Perfect for Buttercream Cakes

DC – Dessert Cakes – Perfect just as they are

I hope you enjoy cooking with and using these recipes as much as we have enjoyed creating, styling, photographing and eating them!

Can Cheesecake make you happy?

can cheese cake make you happy

Lime and Pistachio Cheesecake. I promise it will make you happy. Maggie Beer, arguably one of Australia’s happiest personalities sat on a panel at a previous years Happiness and its Causes conference discussing the link between happiness and food and spoke with her customary warmth and energy about “the feeling of warmth that comes not … Read more

Doughnuts – Spiced Pumpkin Doughnuts Recipe

doughnuts

Chai Spiced Pumpkin Doughnuts Its doughnut day and what better way to celebrate than to cook doughnuts! I had never made doughnuts before and for some reason always thought they would be really hard! They actually are not! There are some recipes out there that use yeast and are a little bit trickier  but this … Read more

Boca Negra Cake – Most Amazing Cake Ever

boca negra cake

MOST AMAZING CAKE EVER! This Boca Negra cake is like a giant chocolate truffle! I kid you not! And its gluten free! Adam Cremona popped over for dinner a few weeks ago with this goodness and I just had to pull out my camera, take a shot, write the recipe on a serviette and share … Read more

Best Ever Spiced Rum Cake and Hot Rum Milk

best ever spiced rum cake

                        I went to Fiji for about 8 hours on Christmas eve 2013……..Random, I know. It was a cruise stop off. There is not much you can do in 8 hours on an island. However I did manage to buy an international phone charger … Read more

Egg Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with Poppy and Jess

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Poppy and Jess are back with this super cute tutorial to show you how to make scrummy chocolate chip cookies! In todays world of egg free and nut free schools, it can be super hard to find Egg Free and nut free recipes that you can pop in the kids lunch boxes. This one was … Read more

Flavour Your Ganache with Essential Oils

flavor your ganache with essential oils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-RxlBGxAo Something we get asked about all the time is cake flavours. In this video Louise shows you just how to use pure essential oils to add flavour to your ganache. To buy the oils that Louise uses click here — http://bit.ly/essentoils

How to make Perfect Chocolate Ganache

how to make perfect chocolate ganache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMlFakRuCE One question that we get asked more than anything is how to make the perfect ganache for covering cakes. In this video Chocolatier  Jessica Pedemont takes you through exactly how to get it right.

What can go wrong with Ganache and How to fix it!

what can go wrong with ganache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJl2pa5J74 One question that we get asked more than anything is how to make the perfect ganache for covering cakes. In Part 2 of our Ganache series Chocolatier  Jessica Pedemont talks about all the things that can go wrong with ganache and just how to fix them!

How to make Red velvet Cake

red velvet cake

How to make Red Velvet Cake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkSwdvuqMgU Learn how to make this beautiful and easy Red Velvet Cake with Adam Cremona. What a perfect quick dessert or even a great gift ! Red Velvet Cake Recipe writer – Adam Cremona This super moist, crimson coloured cake’s origin is buried deep within American baking history. Nobody … Read more