Baking, a fun pastime for many of us, but all too often we forget the hard part; cake decorations! You’ve perfected your recipes, your sponge is soft and springy and now you want to give your cakes the WOW factor with some fancy decorations. Let us give you a little inspiration! Read More

Biscuits, or cookies to our friends across the pond, have a long and interesting history and are eaten all over the globe. Thanks to their longer storage life, biscuits became a firm favourite with travellers and the 17th and 18th centuries saw bakers creating many biscuits and cookies for their sweet-toothed customers. Read More

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When you think of Nigella Lawson, it’s difficult not to think of rich, decadent and indulgent deserts. Well known for her flirtatious presenting style, Lawson seductively steers us through a range of delicious dishes, but did you know she doesn’t actually have any formal cookery qualifications? Read More

A revolutionary invention, the humble cupcake was born in the United States in the 19th century as a quicker cooking alternative to the traditional sized cake. Since then the little cupcake has grown rapidly in popularity, spawning thousands of cupcake businesses worldwide. At Sugar Shack, whether you are a cupcake baking pro, or an enthusiastic beginner, we have all of the tools of the trade that’ll help you along your way! Read More

You’ve got your cake tins ready, you’ve been shopping for your ingredients and you’re wielding a whisk like you are ready for some serious baking action – but have you given the icing for your cake any thought? Read More

This Easter Weekend, why not give the Easter Bunny a little treat in the form of this tasty carrot cake? We can’t think of a better way to break lent! Read More

These tasty treats have quite a history; serving as a symbol for the Crucifixion, although, some believe hot cross buns pre-date Christianity and were made and eaten by the Saxons in honour of the goddess, Eostre. Read More

It’s official! Spring has sprung! The vernal equinox on March 20th marked the official start of Spring and with Easter just around the corner what better excuse do we have (not that we need one!) to get out our cake tins and start baking. Read More

Throwing a birthday party for your little girl is a big deal. Getting the decorations right and giving her the best day ever are tricky concepts, especially when you have to choose between all the items on her present list, (she’s still not getting that pony!) Choosing the best possible birthday cake is also key, but you needn’t worry about the decorating – particularly if she’s a fan of all things Disney. Read More

With so many different flavours of cakes out there, there are just as many – if not more – methods of adding the finishing touches. Decorating a cake is as important as the taste, especially with people either fighting to get a piece or fleeing from the scene based purely on the looks of a cake. Read More

In our last article, we gave you a simple guide to baking a cake. This time we thought we’d share our expertise in the art of cake decorating, enabling you to add customized designs to the top of your cakes for all kinds of occasions. Read More

Baking is one of those things that people are either brilliant at, or say they “can’t do” because, well, they’ve never done it. It’s a bit like certain foods really – how do you know unless you try it? Baking a cake is actually very simple if you think about it. It’s just mixing a few things together, putting it in the oven and leaving it to cool – to quote the great philosopher Jeremy Clarkson, “how hard can it be?” Not hard at all actually, and we’re going to give you a really simple cake baking recipe to get you going. Read More

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