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 ...