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    Lola's Cupcakes Create A Cake Decorating Kit Review

    08/11/2019 by thebakingexplorer 8 Comments

    This post is sponsored by Lola's Cupcakes. All opinions are my own.

    As much as I love home baking, since becoming a mum I have a new appreciation for why many people don't always have the time to bake everything from scratch! I think because I bake a lot too, I often forget that baking doesn't come naturally to everyone. Not everyone is confident in the kitchen or knows their way around the oven. That's where Lola's Cupcakes comes to the rescue! Lola's Cupcakes is a hugely successful bakery with several locations across London and one in Birmingham. They've released their Create A Cake Decorating Kit to bring a fun cake decorating experience to your home. Everything inside is freshly made by their bakers, so you know it's going to be delicious too!

    The Create A Cake Kit comes with a Lola's Cupcakes bakers hat, a handy palette knife for smoothing buttercream, and a full instruction booklet on how they recommend you decorate the cake. Of course, you can be creative and decorate it however you like!

    Inside the pretty blue box are all the elements of the cake - freshly baked sponges, cookies 'n' cream buttercream, chocolate ganache, Oreo cookies and crumbs, and a chocolate drizzle. There's also full instructions on how to decorate the cake, and even a handy guide to show you where to cut the piping bags. I was so excited to get started! The kit does come with a cake board but I decided to put mine on a cake stand, if you don't have one, you're all set with the cake board provided!

    I decided to get creative and invent my own design for decorating the cake. I also set strict rules that I could only use what was supplied in the kit, and basic kitchen items if needed (I only ended up using a knife to cut the Oreos in half). The aim was to show how much you can do with only the kit items, there's no fancy equipment needed!

    Once I'd filled the cake with buttercream and ganache (damn that ganache tasted good, you're lucky any of it made it to the cake!) I covered it with more buttercream using the palette knife from the kit. I found it easier to pipe the buttercream directly onto the palette knife, then spread it onto the cake. Next I went for alternating blobs of buttercream and ganache on top of the cake.

    Having added the Oreo crumbs in the centre, I also decided to add some around the bottom of the cake and I used the palette knife to press them into the buttercream. I didn't have a plan for decorating the cake when I started, I just enjoyed the experience and made it up as I went along!

    Then I cut the Oreo biscuits in half and pressed them into the buttercream and ganache. Finally I poured the  chocolate drizzle all over the top, I was glad this was the final element of decoration as I was very ready to tuck in!

    I was so happy with how my design turned out! It looked so good and I had so much fun decorating the cake. It was really simple too, the instructions were clear and easy to follow, all the bags were clearly labelled, and the palette knife was the essential tool for so many aspects of the decoration.

    Create A Cake

    I think the Create A Cake kit would be such a fun activity to do with your kids in the school holidays or on a rainy weekend. It'd also be a fun Hen Party activity - you could buy a few kits, split the group into teams and have the bride judge the best decorated cake! You could use the same format for a work team building activity too!

    Create A Cake

    I'm really impressed with the design and results from the Create A Cake Kit, plus the cake was so tasty! You can also be safe in the knowledge that the kit is sent by next day delivery for your urgent cake cravings, and if you don't want to use it straight away you can freeze it for up to 30 days! Lola's Cupcakes really have thought of everything!

    If you'd like to get your own Create A Cake Decorating Kit for yourself, or for a gift for someone else, you can do so by visiting Lola's Cupcakes website. You can use my discount code KAT10 to get 10% off a Create A Cake Kit!

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    Comments

    1. Claire Thomas

      November 08, 2019 at 6:08 pm

      I actually think this is such a cute idea. It looks like you get loads of filling and toppings. I think it would be a great idea for a teen party or hen party. And you made a great design - I could really go a slice of this right now!

      Reply
      • thebakingexplorer

        November 15, 2019 at 10:56 am

        I'm glad you like it Claire! Yes you get plenty of filling and topping, I had some leftover but it ddn't go to waste 😉 I did think it would be good for hen parties, but I didn't think of teen parties too - great idea!!

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    2. Jo Allison

      November 08, 2019 at 6:54 pm

      What an interesting and novel idea and so nicely execute too! 🙂 I think it's fab for when you are short on time or perhaps need a boost of confidence and with everything nicely set up for you and helpful instructions it is so much easier to achieve a nice result! Love Claire's idea about teen and hen parties too, perfect for that!

      Reply
      • thebakingexplorer

        November 15, 2019 at 10:57 am

        Thank you Jo! Exactly I agree, great for boosting confidence and a time saver too!

        Reply
    3. Jill

      August 15, 2020 at 3:36 pm

      Great review luv your cakes .

      Reply
    4. Jill

      August 15, 2020 at 4:00 pm

      Hi
      Won't let me use discount code?

      Reply
      • thebakingexplorer

        August 15, 2020 at 6:11 pm

        Hi Jill, I have contacted Lola's about this and I will let you know what they say.

        Reply
      • thebakingexplorer

        August 18, 2020 at 9:55 am

        Hi Jill, the discount code should work now if you'd like to try it again 🙂

        Reply

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