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

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

Fashion trends seem to change on an almost weekly basis, with the styles out of date by the time you’ve had chance to pop to the shops to buy them.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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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

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

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