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Welcome to the Issue 3.07 / July 2014 of the CakesDecor Gazette 

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Editorial

Hello my Lovelies,

I am just about to start an incredibly busy few months teaching in lots of different locations across Australia. I will be teaching a variety of classes and also appearing at some fabulous Cake Shows to do some demonstrations.

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to combine 3 things I love so much; cakes, traveling and meeting lots of wonderful new people!

I’m off to Cakeriffic in Melbourne next weekend which I’m very excited about! Along with some brilliant co-presenters; Michelle Green of The Business of Baking and Greg Cleary of Sweetums Cake Design, I will be demonstrating Claire Bowman Cake Lace, how I stencil with Royal Icing, Shimmering using lustre and some Wafer Paper techniques I use and love. I hope if you see me around you make sure to come and say Hi!

Don't forget that you can now have your say about what you would like to see in the Gazette. Just go to the CakesDecor Blog posts for the Gazette and leave your suggestions and ideas there.

Have a wonderful month!

Raewyn xx

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What's Happening

This month we have a fabulous Doc McStuffins tutorial by Bolos do Nosso Imaginário and a delicious Light Coconut Cake Recipe from Miettes for you to try. Have you used one of our tutorials? Why don't you submit it to CakesDecor.com and your creation may be featured in the next Gazette. We also have my interview with the gorgeous and talented Sharon Wee.

We would love to hear what you would like to see in The Gazette and who you would like us to interview. Just go to The Gazette Blog post and leave your comments there.

Enjoy! :)

Cakes Decor Gazette Editors Choice

The Editors Choice for July is...

Black Beauty

by 

Love Blossom Cakery

SO different and oh so elegant!! A perfect example of finding cake inspiration everywhere...this stunning beauty was inspired by Embossed Ceiling Paper!

Congratulations Love Blossom Cakery on being my Editors Choice for July 2014. 

Raewyn :) x

Cake Decorator of the Week

The Cake Decorators of the Week for June were...

Dream Cakes by Robyn

Cakefield Avenue

JT Cakes

Cakes by Dina

Fatto di Zucchero

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CakesDecor Interview Series

Interview #25: Sharon Wee

BIO

Sharon Wee is a gorgeous, tiny, talented powerhouse in the Cake Decorating Community. I had the pleasure of meeting Sharon for the first time earlier this year at the Australian Cake Decorating Network Cake Camp in Melbourne and I have to say, she is an absolute sweetheart!

With a no-nonsense, easy teaching style that immediately puts even the most nervous student at ease, Sharon runs a classroom with a quiet confidence. She is the ultimate hard working professional during her class hours and to my delight, an absolute joy once the work is done. She has a fabulous sense of humour and buckets of personality to go with her boundless energy…..and she loves Bunnies!  

Enjoy! :)

Interview

How did you first get started with cake decorating?
I first started in college making cakes for friends. After getting my first ‘real’ job I was bored and wanted something more so I took an evening class at a community college from a sweet old lady. That sparked my interest so I kept practicing and taking more classes from other schools and decorators.

Read full interview here

15 Minutes of Fame

My Face

I love this idea from Maria of Vanilla Cake Boutique! 

All we have a name and a surname. All we have a logo or a brand. But what is our face? Who are we? Behold, I have this: I’m Mariagrazia Tota Vanilla cake Boutique.
I would like to see your face…..

Show us your face here

Caking Around the World

Cake Shows and Competitons for July

We would like to bring you news and information about the many exciting Cake events around the world.

If you know of any Cake shows or competitions in your area, we would love you to share them with us

Cakeriffic

Caulfield Racecourse, Gate 22, Station Street, Caulfield East, VIC 3145

18-20th July 2014

ICES

Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 30-August 3, 2014

Cake Masters Magazine - July Issue

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WELCOME TO OUR GORGEOUS SUMMER ISSUE!

I wanted to dedicate this issue to warm weather and dreams of our summer holidays around the corner.

I am so excited that Carlos Lischetti has finally made it into our magazine with a special interview! His figurine models are works of art and we speak to him about his modelling and fascinating career to date.

To celebrate the summer, 8 fantastic cake artists from around the world were tasked with creating a cake that told a summer story – something that encapsulated a summer holiday emotion… Boy are you in for a treat! We don’t like to give too much direction when it comes to specific magazine projects, as we want each artist to literally take their cake wherever they want and REALLY go there! There really are some beautiful creations for you to be inspired by in this bright and breezy issue. I hope you get swept away into the summer holiday journeys!

We have 3 great tutorials for you too, one from Amber Adamson from Top Tier Cakes for All Occasions, showing us her method of stencilling on the side of cakes – it is really simple and I can’t wait for you to see how effective it is! Our second tutorial is from our other exclusive interview; the award winning, author, teacher and cake artist, Sharon Wee from Sharon Wee Creations. Sharon has put together an exclusive “Adventure Bear” tutorial for Cake Masters Magazine!

We also have the lovely buttercream girls, and authors of the new book, “The Contemporary Buttercream Bible”, Valeri and Christina from Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes, giving us a masterclass in piping perfect buttercream flowers.

Top it all off with our regular features, Cake Spaces from France, a family affair Afternoon Tea with Jen and lots more!

I hope it is sunny where you are!

Rosie

Get your copy now from: AppStore or www.cakemasters.co.uk

Monthly Top 5

Most Popular Cake for June

Floral Wedge Heel

Sharron

Art of Gardening

Dina

Sleepy Teddy Bears

Shannon Davie

Owl Cake

Kateřina Lončáková

Love Song Cake

SB Cake Design

Cake This Tute!

Doc McStuffins Tutorial

Bolos do Nosso Imaginário

Bake This Tute!

Light Coconut Cake

Miettes

This cake is good as is without any frosting or you can frost it like I did for my son’s birthday cake (pictured).

Light & Fluffy Coconut Cake (makes 1x 9-inch pan)

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 ½ cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ cup vegetable oil (I use canola)
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon almond extract
  • ½ cup skim milk
  • 3 oz shredded sweet coconut

Go to recipe

Kitchen Talk

Your First and Last Cake

Daantje

What a great idea from Daantje! Show us your first and last cakes! It's wonderful to be able to see just how far you've come.

Go to full post and comments

Cakesdecor stats & links

13 July 2014

We are 20,478 cake decorators making 647,888 comments on 143,898 cakes, 1,384 blogs, 93 recipes,747 tutorials, and 1,558 forum topics.

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