Christmas (or Christmas in July) is the perfect time to pull out the old family fruit cake recipe. There is just one small problem - most of these tasty recipes include Parisian Essence, which is a difficult thing to find these days! If you can't seem to get your hands on Parisian Essence this festive season, why not make your own?

Is your mum into making cakes, cookies and other sweet treats? Here are some presents we know she’d love to receive.

We have ten extremely handy tips to melt white chocolate and if you follow these you should be well on your way to perfectly melted white chocolate every time, no matter the brand.

With the right tools, and a decent amount of patience and practice, creating lifelike sugar flowers will not only become much easier, but it will likely become one of your favourite creative outlets.

Whether your ganache is turning out too hard, too soft, or splitting, the good news is almost everything that can go wrong with ganache is fixable. Yes, even split ganache can be saved!

Follow these few secret tips and tricks and you’ll stop your cupcake cases peeling in no time.