One of the biggest talking points in the cake decoration and baking industries is not, unfortunately, the latest quadrupled chocolate brownie muffin gateaux (that would be epic), it is in fact the use of decorative glitters and dusts. Following a notice from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) at the end of 2011, a lot of online discussions have consisted of questions and comments from perplexed bakers and decorators as to what they can legally use in their baking. Read More

If you Mum loves nothing more than spending her rare free time baking, choosing cake decorating accessories or baking supplies for her Mother’s Day gift is likely to go down almost as well as the latest batch of her famous triple chocolate brownies! Read More

Valentines Day is all about doing something special for your loved one. While fancy restaurants, diamonds and being given permission to spend the morning playing golf might be some people’s idea of a special treat, others appreciate things that have real thought put into them. Baking a Valentines Cake is just one perfect way of showing your partner how you feel about them. Read More

Fashion trends seem to change on an almost weekly basis, with the styles out of date by the time you’ve had chance to pop to the shops to buy them. It seems that the cake decoration industry is following suit, with various designs and styles proving to be particularly popular, many of which would look right at home on the catwalks. Read More

Some of us have barely put the bowls and cake tins back in the cupboard from making the Christmas cakes, but there is another special occasion on the horizon that will get people’s creative juices flowing again. Coming up in just a matter of weeks is Valentines Day, the perfect opportunity for you to whip up something your other half will love, and The SugarShack are here to help! Read More

Having gone to all the effort of making a cake big enough to feed the whole family, the next step is to add the finishing touches that make your work really stand out from the crowd. For that reason, cake toppers are the ideal way to give your cakes that genuine wow factor.

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An amateur cake and preserve maker from Eastbourne has been awarded for her efforts after raising almost £16,000. Yana Askaroff raised the money through holding quarterly coffee mornings at her home, and was awarded with the “Resident of the Month” award for November 2011. Read More

When you make a cake, cookie, ice cream or even a Sunday dinner, the presentation is almost as important as the taste of the ingredients themselves. After all, nobody wants to eat something that looks like it’s been scooped up off the floor, even if it has taken two hours to prepare. Cake decorations form an important part of cookery, helping to add the perfect finishing touch to your creations. Read More

At Christmas time, schools are always doing something. Whether it’s the traditional nativity play at the local church, or the more modern Christmas production (complete with the mixture of donkeys, aliens and superheroes), or having baking competitions to help raise funds for the school. These baking competitions or sales are often quite fiercely contested, with pride at stake for some mums, so using the best available cake decorations could be the ‘X Factor’ that turns your cake from an also-ran into a winner.

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It’s that time of year again folks. Time to get out the currants and the marzipan and start creating this year’s Christmas cake. But, before you start, have you checked that you’ve got all of the important cake decorations? After all, you don’t want to go through all of that hard work only to realise you’re missing the vital finishing touches to your creation. Read More

In the last few weeks, we’ve been highlighting the value and satisfaction that can come from a career in cake baking. However, there are certain things that we’d recommend you avoid, and following the example of Rachel Brown, who recently found herself swamped with an astounding 102,000 cakes! Read More

With more and more people around the UK choosing to open up a cake baking business, it’ll come as great news to hear that two mothers in Hurworth have been head-hunted by a five star restaurant, when the lead chef tasted their wares on a school playground. Read More

In the modern economic climate, it can be an intimidating prospect trying to get a business going. However, more and more people are now choosing to do so. Their chosen market? Cake baking! Read More

Cake making and baking has become a popular hobby for many recently with cakes, cookies and cupcakes being produced for occasions at a higher rate than ever. Sugar craft is the art of producing artistic centrepieces and individual cakes entirely composed of sugar and sugar derivatives. Read More

Homemade gifts can be easy to make and often much cheaper than the commercial equivalent. Not to mentioned tastier. So if you are looking for a gift to say Happy Birthday, Thank You or Good Luck here are three ideas to get you started. Read More

With Halloween approaching, the stores are likely to be filled with creepy crawlies and various novelty accessories aimed at scaring everybody on the street into giving the delightful little vampires and witches some sweets for the privilege. But, if your little darlings aren’t of the trick or treating variety, there are plenty of Halloween cake decorations available at Sugarshack to help you make some of your own tasty treats. Read More

Here at Sugarshack, we know that expert advice is priceless, that's why we've asked the lovely Louise Dueholm over at Cakejournal.com to supply us with what she believes to be the top ten cake decoration accessories - the ones that she can't do without, and here they are. Enjoy, and happy baking! Read More

There are so many programmes on television at present that people sit there watching and wondering how, exactly, they made it on to air. With hundreds and thousands of panel shows, numerous talent shows and the doom and gloom that comes from the news, it’s good to have one show that captures the imagination of the British audience, encouraging them to go out and have a go at something themselves. Read More

Sweet tooth? You’re in the right place!

Welcome to the new Sugar Shack website, designed to offer you everything that’s good from the world of cakes in a new, more user-friendly design. Whilst we’ve always prided ourselves on the great service that we offer, Read More