Cake Craft & Decoration Magazine. October 2011

Guest Of The Month
A favourite fairground ride has given Ruth Wyld the inspiration for this month's themed wedding cake.

Simply Modelling - Climb Every Mountain
Jane Barraclough has created a wedding cake for an outdoor couple, complete with a mountain goat.

Floral Inspirations - Dahlia's Delight
Test your flower making skills with Sheryl Bramley's upright lobelia and her tri-coloured dahlia.

International Project - 'Till Chocolate Do Us Part'
Netherland's rising stars Sabine Kreuger and Tirza Boer have designed this 'so 2011' 4-tier chocolate-stacked wedding cake with pink highlights.

Award Winning Cakes
Some of the many runners up from Cake International 2010, proving that you don’t just need Gold and Silver winning pieces to inspire you.

Cake International
All the demonstration information for this year’s three day event at the NEC in November to help you make your choice and book your seats in advance of the crowd.

Getting More From Your Equipment - Go For Your Craft Gun Many clever and imaginative moves from craft 'gun slinger' Bev Hilton.

Spell Casting Wizard
Weave a bit of Halloween magic with Elaine Thomas’s 4-tier cake, topped with a hand modelled magical wizard.

Two Tier Simplicity
Carol Haycox creates a classic wedding cake with simple paste lace and an easy to make open rose spray (with the easiest method of making rose leaves you will ever find).

Tiny Tim
In the final part of Paula Macleod’s cake carving series she carves a 3D dinosaur. Patience is needed but it will be worth it to see the smiles on their faces.

Cake Boutique - Perfectly Pastel
Simple, quick to make and effective wedding cake from Louise Brooker.

College Report
We feature the work of Carmarthenshire College tutored by Lyn Rees.

Home Baking
A slightly unusual theme for this month’s baking from Valerie Hedgethorne, of vegetables in cakes. She bakes chocolate and beetroot muffins, pumpkin whoopee pies, carrot and ginger cake, and a very tasty potato and fruit loaf.