Happy Birthday Reaghan & Bailey!

Today Harrison & I went to a birthday party of my good friend Jillian's kidlets Reaghan & Bailey.

I was asked to make their cakes. Reaghan loves Dora, and Bailey loves Star Wars. They had their party at the local pool, and everyone had a fantastic time, Harrison even went for a paddle in the little pool there. It was great.

Anyway here are the cakes.

Dora the Explorer Cake

R2-D2 all cut out & ready to ice.

R2-D2 crumb coated in buttercream

R2-D2 iced

R2-D2 all ready to deliver.

Off to the park!

It was such a lovely day today, so my good friends Rach, Jillian & I decided to take the kids to Maitland Park. The older kids went on the play equipment and the swings, whilst Harrison stayed on the picnic rug, played with his toys and tried to eat every bodies food. I took my camera, but the kids weren't really in the mood to pose. Rach took a fruit platter and some cordial, it was yummy.I love this photo of Harrison!HarrisonKeenanAidan

Reaghan

Kim's Actual Hen's Day - Hunter Valley Vineyards

Wow what a fantastic day. Jillian & I got collected at 10.45am by the bus in Kurri. First up was Audrey Wilkinson winery, were I bought a lovely bottle of 2006 dessert semillon. Followed by Tempus Two winery were I bought a bottle of Copper Lable Moscato (yum). Then we went off to Potters Tavern for lunch, I had the beef & beer pie, which was delicious, but not worth the 2 hour wait, one of the girls (Kate), didn't even get her lunch. Here Rach & Kim (crazy) left us, as they had prior commitments, and the rest of us piled back in the bus for the last vineyard Briar Ridge. Then off home. During the day Kim's Matron of honour had organised some games for us all to play. The funniest was were we all had to write on a piece of paper what we wanted Kim to do (a challenge) during the day. I wrote that I wanted her to pinch a strange man's bum. Little did we know that Kim had organised prior to this, that what ever she had to do, we had to do with her. So we found a man, in line at Tempus Two, and together we eached pinched his bum. he didn't even flinch or turn around, later we found out that he thought it was his wife. Kim also had to go and ask a group of men sex advice for her Wedding night. One said don't do it, one said she had to honour her wedding vows, and the other said to smile and fake it. lol.

Here are some photo's that Rach took during the day.

Kim's Hens Day

Last Saturday, I went to a friends hens day, she had an Under Cover Wear party at her house, so I made her a cake. Now this cake, wasn't for the faint hearted. I asked Kim what sort of cake she would like, and she wanted "Chocolate", which was great, because its my favourite too. The result was so yummy. Kim's fiance and their son (age 2) ate nearly half of the cake for dinner after we had all left.

This is the Chocolate birthday cake recipe, it has chocolate mousse w/ Malteasers filling, and is covered in chocolate ganache.

from The Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook