Bodan's 8th Birthday Snail Cake.

The little boy who this cake was for is infatuated with snails. He spends hours outside each day, collecting them and playing with them. He names them all "Fluffy".

As soon as I was asked to make a snail cake, I thought of the ladybird garden cake, I made earlier, but I needed to make it more "boyish". So I thought of a tree stump.

Its a double barrel chocolate mud cake, with chocolate buttercream frosting. All the details are fondant.

New Blog Address

The other day I changed my blog address, not thinking it would change anything. I've since found out that the old link doesn't work. Grrrrrr...................

So to anyone that has my Blog saved, could you please change the link to this.
Thanks so much!

xx

Wilton Classes

The lovely Beck from Cupids Cake Decorating is holding Wilton lessons in Newcastle. They are an abreviated class which run for 3 weeks.

Week 1: Piping lessons ~ Star, shell, rosettes, swirls, dots + writing etc.

Week 2: Roses, leaves, basket weave + revise week 1.




























Week 3: Novelty cake ~ Star piped.




































Week 4: To follow.

Chocolate Cherry Ripe Mud Cake

I recently tried out a new recipe. It was delicious thick mud cake with chunks of cherry ripe throughout. Slathered in dark chocolate ganache, wrapped with chocolate panels and topped with fresh strawberries. Yumm....

Noah's Safari Cake

Mum Kristy pre-ordered Noah's 1st Birthday cake back in October for his Birthday in February. I was really looking forward to this one. A safari cake.


The only real request was that it matched his Invitations.


I am loving making figurines at the moment, so was quite excited at the thought of making a lion. Once he was made though, I thought he needed a couple of friends so set about making a zebra & giraffe to go with him.



















I kept the cake fairly simple, added some safari inspired leaves to the top and sides, and added the wording.































I also tried a new technique to smooth the sides of the cake, which I think worked quite well. my smoothest cake yet.

This was an 8" double layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Thanks for looking xx

Brydie's 1st Birthday Cake & Cupcakes

This was an order for a very old friend of mine for her gorgeous little girls 1st Birthday. I made 10 cupcakes for the kids to match.

Garden Party Cupcakes

These were a last minute order for a 50th Birthday. Fave colours were yellow and green (I added the pink to balance it all out).

24 cupcakes all chocolate mudcake with white chocolate buttercream.

I was so happy with this colour combo! The birthday girl loved them too <3

In the Night Garden Cake

My little man turned 2 recently, and I struggled as to what cake to make for him. Then one day he was watching tv and this show came on. He got so excited, so that made my mind up for me.

It ended up being such a rush job, I started decorating the cake at 6.30pm the night before his party. It was also the same weekend as the previous posts Wedding, I won't do that again.

Everyone loved the cake, all Harrison wanted was to lick the icing off the character's feet, lol.

6" + 9" Chocolate mud cakes, covered in vanilla buttercream. Plastic figurines & fondant details.

Naomi & Craig's Wedding

Woohoo, my quote was accepted, and they chose the cupcake with the monogram and the little flower.

I even went to the venue and set the display up, so I got to see the beautiful venue, it was divine.

6" cutting cake was chocolate mud cake.

100 cupcakes were half white and half dark chocolate mud.

All topped with white chocolate buttercream.

Monogram topper was made of acrylic and made by Bride's father.

NRL Cake

Archie's Mum & Dad work with my Husband, and are Newcastle Knights fanatics, so when it came to his 1st Birthday cake thats what they chose as the theme.

I hadn't used an edible image before, and I didn't want it to look like it had come from the local bakery / cheesecake shop. I was quite happy with the end result, as were Archie's parents.

Ladybug Garden Cake

This cake has been in the works for quite awhile, it has changed directions numerous times, but this is what I ended up with.

I just had to do a close up of the ladybug. She is Sooooo cute!

Cake is chocolate mud cake w/ vanilla buttercream. Fondant and modelling paste details.

Wedding samples.

A few weeks ago, I was asked to do a quote for a Wedding. I haven't done a Wedding before, so I really wanted it to be accepted.

So, I worked it out, and emailed it off, and I was asked to supply samples.

The client requested white and dark chocolate mud cupcakes, quite simple, in purple and cream colours.

So this is what I designed.

My favourites are the 2nd two. I realised after I took the photo of the cupcake with the flower, that I had forgotten to put the flower centres in, but I fixed this before they were delivered.

Busy, busy, busy

I have closed my books for October, and November, as I completely booked out. I can't believe it, I have never been so busy.

As well as all my cake orders, I have changed jobs. I have left my job of nearly 10 years with Dick Smith Electronics, and have joined up as a Merchandiser with Telstra. I have wanted to be a Merchandiser for quite a while, but these jobs are few and far between. They aproached me, so I couldn't be happier. It also works in quite well with Harrison. It is 5-8 days per month, very flexible (I set my own roster). harrison has started at a local childcare centre, one day per week, and he still goes to my parents house another day per week. I have been trying to cram all my work into the 5 days, so that I get 3 days per month to myself :o)

Ok, I had better go,
More cakes to come soon xox

Calling all Star Wars fans.

You may remember earlier this year in February, I made a R2-D2 cake for a little boy called Bailey. Well this month it was his cousin Dylan's Birthday, and he has asked for a Yoda cake. I was pretty stressed about making Yoda, as I had no idea as to how I would make him, but in the end I was quite happy with the result. The best part, is that Dylan loved him :o)



























Yoda was chocolate mud cake, with vanilla & chocolate buttercream.

Hugs 'N' Stitches Cake

I made this cake 2 weeks ago. Inspired by the Hugs 'N' Stitches party range.





























Chocolate mud cake, w/ vanilla buttercream. Fondant decorations.

More Chocolatey Goodness!

Strawberry Malteaser Chocolate Cake

This was 2 layers of rich chocolate cake sandwiched with a chocolate malteaser mousse, covered in whipped milk chocolate ganache and panels, and filled with chocolate coated strawberries and more malteasers. YUMMO!

This was my first time making chocolate panels, and chocolate covered strawberries.






































Made for my good friend Jillian's Mum for her 60th Birthday.

Adam's 30th Birthday Cake.

I had been thinking of what sort of cake to make for Adam for quite a few months. I knew it had to be a white chocolate cake, but other than that, I had no idea. I saw a cake on someone elses blog a while ago, for a single tiered cake covered in kit-kats and m&m's, and thought it looked fun, and yummy. So I altered it to a 2 tiered, and added some stars etc to the top.

It is white chocolate mud cake, layered and covered with dark chocolate ganache, surrounded with kit-kat's, and covered in m&m's.

In total there is 3.15kg's of chocolate on and in this cake.

I am so happy with how it turned out, and that I managed to keep it a secret from him. he loved it.

This is what I ended up with.

Baby shower cupcakes

These are for a friend's baby shower tomorrow.

The cupcakes were based on the invites I made.

Rich chocolate cake, with very vanilla frosting, RTR icing discs and modelling paste feet.

Lightning McQueen

Oh, what a cake!

This was an order for my friend Annika's "Cars" obsessed little boy Cameron.

This was a job and a half for me, as I wasn't feeling the best, hadn't made a car cake before, and hadn't tackled red icing before. but, even with all of those things against me, I think it turned out ok. I'm sure Cameron thought it was a toy, as he kept taking the wheels on and off, and wasn't keen on anyone cutting it.

I added the wording on the board as a last minute thing, and painted the letters to match the lightning strike on the car.

Chocolate mud cake, with vanilla frosting. I used vita weet for the back wing, RTR icing details.

Chocolate Pig

The other day, I got home and there was a message on our answering machine from my hair dresser. She was requesting a cake in the shape of a pig for her boyfriend.

I started on the idea of doing a wild boar, (as her BF goes pigging), but we quickly decided it would make for an ugly cake. So after a quick phone call we decided on just a normal pig, done in chocolate.

So this is what I came up with.

Chocolate mud cake, w/ chocolate frosting. I made the eyes out of a mix of mud cake and frosting, rolled into balls, and covered in RTR icing.