Home of Fabulous Cakes

Royal cake maker Fiona Cairns shares her glamorous baking secrets. In this episode, Fiona makes four delicious treats for the perfect tea party. On the menu are heart shaped vanilla shortbreads, fairy cakes with lavender sugar, a rose petal heart with white chocolate, cardamom and rosewater, and a delicious lemon Madeira cake in the shape of a teapot.

Fiona Cairns shares her baking secrets, showing us how to bake and decorate visually stunning cakes at home. Fiona makes four delicious treats inspired by summer berries - blueberry yoghurt fairy cakes with a cream cheese topping, a mouth-watering berry rose scented meringue, a flourless chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, and a strawberry and elderflower cake.

Fiona is making cakes using vegetables - a crafty way of giving children their five a day. She makes fruit and vegetable muffins, a chocolate and beetroot cake, and a vegetable plot cake using carrot, pecan nuts and sugar paste vegetables. She also visits a beekeeper to source honey for her cake shaped like a honeycomb.

Fiona makes gingerbread biscuits, and sponge cakes masquerading as ice cream cones with peanut butter and salted caramel topping, she also uses sticky toffee pudding as inspiration for a delicious birthday cake and shows how to bake and decorate her most popular chocolate cake and in her weekly master class, Fiona teaches two teenagers how to make and pipe the perfect butter cream icing.

On the menu are peanut and caramel cookies - ideal for little trick or treaters - toffee apple pops filled with buttercream, orange flavoured cupcakes with sugarpaste monsters, and a spectacular erupting volcano marble cake. In her weekly masterclass Fiona teaches two novice bakers how to make bats and ghosts out of chocolate shortbread.

Cake maker Fiona Cairns spices up her cakes with a Bollywood theme today including chilli chocolate cupcakes, a delicious tropical fruit chewy meringue, and a chocolate and coconut cake decorated with vanilla rose butter cream. She also gives an Indian twist to the traditional British ginger cake, and challenges two artists to transfer their skills to cakes.