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Your Most Loved Recipes of 2018

After a busy Christmas baking season, it’s time to restock your pantry, clean out your oven and get ready for a delicious year ahead! To help us develop recipes we know our Queen Bakers will love, we took a look at your most loved, baked and searched for recipes over the past year. From treasured classics to brand new favourites, be sure to check in with this collection before planning your 2019 to-bake list.

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Top Baking Trends for 2019

With the New Year fast approaching, it’s time we put the hours scouring the depths of Pinterest and Instagram to good use and reveal our best guesses for the year ahead. We really know how to pick ‘em here at Queen – just take a look at our 2018 baking and decorating predictions! Update: read our baking and decorating trend predictions for 2020!

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12 Recipes to Spice up your Christmas

As November draws to a close and the weather starts heating up, it can only mean one thing: that first batch of Gingerbread Biscuits is only days away! Some people look forward to the presents, but here at Queen we’re all about the festive baking. While we don’t like to play favourites with ingredients (except Vanilla, shh) nothing tastes more like Christmas than a generous dash of fragrant cinnamon. Pavlovas, cheesecakes, rum balls and even banana bread – cinnamon adds that extra little touch of holiday spice. To help inspire your best ever season of festive baking, read on for our top 12 cinnamon-scented holiday recipes!

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We’re For Baked Goods and Good Enoughs

Here at Queen, we’ll be the first to admit that we only tend to feature our recipes at their very best. But we’ll let you in on a little secret: our test kitchen bakes are often far from the perfect sponges and cheesecakes that stare back at you from social media! We’ve had our fair share of bake fails, from forgotten cakes, cracked pavs and the dreaded over-whipped cream. But we can absolutely guarantee that our recipes will taste pretty darn good, even if yours doesn’t turn out exactly like the picture.

Creative Palettes with Queen Food Colour Gels

Creating those hard to mix shades of buttercream is one thing, but putting them all together into a themed cake is quite another. Our handy video explores how to match shades together to create, ocean, sunset, jewel and woodland themed cakes. To replicate the shades, simply read below and refer to our Food Colour Mixing Chart.

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The Best Chocolate Cake Ever

Here at Queen HQ, it’s not always a fight to the death between vanilla and chocolate! We still appreciate a good slice of chocolate cake, and vanilla is a fantastic ‘supporting ingredient’ to help elevate the rich, earthiness of chocolate and minimise the bitterness. But not all chocolate cakes are created equal – from light, fluffy sponges to dark, rich mud cakes, calling out ‘the best’ seems like an impossible task.

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Another 10 Baby Shower Cakes that are Totally Worth the Effort

Here at Queen, we strongly believe that every important celebration should be marked by an incredible cake. While Pinterest is often the place to start for inspiration, a quick search for baby shower cakes reveals all the same old pastel fondant options – boring! Instead, we’ve done the hard yards for you to round up ten stunning and far more original cakes that are totally worth the effort, with a few hot Queen tips thrown in for good measure.

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What’s so magic about Magic Cakes?

From classic vanilla and chocolate to more adventurous matcha and even mermaid flavour (yes, you read that right) Magic Cakes are an internet favourite. But what on earth is the secret behind those three delicious layers, created from one simple batter?