This issue is all about realism in cakes. Whether that’s creating something hyper-realistic, bringing your favourite characters to life in an edible bust or sculpting some optical illusions.
 
Our cover star this month is Rummana Basheer who wows us with her Forest Spell composition - teaching you how to create realistic sugar flowers, vegetation and texture. Jo Barton teams up with Prop Options to bring you a floating cake illusion, Dawn Butler shows you step-by-step how she made Ronnie Wood’s iconic guitar from cake, and Hilda Aghilizadeh amazes us with her Will Smith caricature bust masterclass. We also have a pirate tutorial from Somayeh Ghaffari, a summer cactus sugar flower lesson from Orsolya Smukné Komádi, a sweet treat from Miriam Pearson, and a hyper-realistic dish sponge cake from Tammy Varela.
 
Also inside this jam-packed edition we interview Saveliia Solntseva, we get to know Victoria White in our quickfire question round, and we review It’s a Sweet World cookbook. Plus all your fave features are here too!