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Swiss meringue buttercream

Posted by Bake Club on Saturday, May 23, 2020, In : big cakes 

8 is such a cool cake shape to make! Just 2 round cakes with a slice off each end and pushed together. I made a sugar-free and dairy-free vegan chocolate ganache cake and vegan lemon cake and contrasted them with a decadent swiss meringue buttercream for our daughter's birthday. She couldn't resist licking the bowl.

This is a standard way to make swiss meringue buttercream. I've also read a reverse method where you cream the butter then add cooled egg white/sugar meringue. Maybe I'll try that ...


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Chocolate cake with Italian meringue buttercream

Posted by Bake Club on Monday, March 23, 2020, In : big cakes 

I knew my birthday today wasn't going to be about me. These are unprecedented times. Time to think about the future of humankind. But, determined to keep calm and carry on baking, I made this healthy chocolate cake and lavished it with Italian meringue buttercream, to celebrate my day of birth. I've always wanted to make a 3-tiered cake with this kind of buttercream. Novices take note, don't take your eyes off your sugar syrup! I burnt my first lot but tried again.

For the chocolate cake:
3 egg...
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Easy vanilla cake

Posted by Bake Club on Thursday, May 25, 2017, In : big cakes 

When it comes to birthday cakes, kids usually prefer simple flavours but lots of icing - and then just eat the icing. Our daughter requested a vanilla PJ Masks cake for her 5th birthday, so this is my first foray into fondant icing. It was easier than I thought. I just drew and cut out a template of Owlette's mask onto paper, then rolled out the store-bought red fondant, placed the template on top and cut it out. The black parts are cut from a licorice log. The white eyes are made from a mixt...
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Frances C loves to bake. She's also a freelance editor and DJ. She shares some of her adventures, culinary or otherwise, on Instagram.


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