Thanks to Bake Off and similar programmes, people are upping their game on the baking front. I remember making theme cakes for my children’s birthdays – Optimus Prime from the Transformers, My Little Pony – every year a different, almost recognisable masterpiece – a triumph of love and enthusiasm over skill. But my kids were always delighted, or if they weren’t they learned from an early age to fake it.
Nowadays things are different. Master baking skills seem to be part of the modern mum’s job description – my daughter-in-law is an astounding example. She regularly produces cakes worthy of any self-respecting patisserie for family events, in between looking after two children and working – and she makes it look easy.
But how do you store and transport these lovely creations? An old cardboard box, like in my day? I don’t think so.
Thankfully Tala have got this covered. Their set of three cake tins are a work of art in themselves. Part of the new Indigo and Ivory range, they are sophisticated and stylish.
The two smaller cake tins fit inside the bigger one, for easy storage. The largest measures 25cm in diameter and is 15cm deep, and the smallest is 20cm by 11cm. The bigger one is particularly useful for celebration cakes, and the three of them could even be used for a small wedding cake.
They each have the same classical design (see image), but are in coordinating colours – indigo, silver and ivory – they look lovely, stand alone or together, and of course they also match other items in this new Tala range.
At £20.25 from Amazon they would make a perfect gift – and Christmas is just around the corner …
By Dr K Thompson, author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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