Long snubbed by serious pastry chefs, the most malleable of icings is making a comeback. Fondant and marzipan fruit top vanilla sponge- and chocolate blackout cakes created for T by Sarah Hardy, the ...

Fondant may be beautiful and decorative, but it's almost always left on the dessert plate. For a more casual look, brides are now choosing unfrosted cakes, where the visual effect is created by layers ...

As we see it, a stunning, drool-inducing wedding cake is the single most important part of any reception—well, second most important, after a happy couple. (Okay, debatable.) Whether you’re planning ...

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4. Grease and line a 30cm x 23cm (12in x 9in) traybake tin with baking parchment, and pour in the vanilla Genoise cake mixture. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until ...

A bride said she was left speechless after she saw her £13,000 wedding cake that was 13ft high, 6ft wide and made up of 50kg of fondant icing. Madeline Burton, 18, splashed out on the huge castle cake ...