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Cake decorations: tricks, products for sale and secrets to customize birthday cakes, parties, baptisms, cresimes and communions.

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Sugar Decorations: 5 Things You Need to Know

1) Should sugar decorations be added before, after or during baking? Always after the cake or dessert has baked, because the heat would melt the sugar. 2) Where can I buy ready-made sugar decorations or figures? Our online shop, tuttopasticceria.it, offers hundreds of sugar figures and decorations organised by […]

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Pumpkin-Shaped Halloween Cake: Decorating Tutorial

The Origins of Halloween The word Halloween is of Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the contraction of “All Hallows’ Eve”, the night before All Saints’ Day. In Celtic Ireland it coincided with the end of summer. Orange represented the harvest and the end of the season, while […]

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Sugar Paste: Where to Buy It and 8 Practical Facts

In recent years, famous cake designers on television have shown a wider audience what can be achieved with sugar-paste cakes. Interest in cake design grew from the ’90s and especially throughout the 2000s, eventually becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Where can you buy sugar paste? You can […]

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