25th Birthday Cake

Chocolate...chocolate...chocolate...

I love making these cakes... for starters I get covered in chocolate, which is always a good thing, secondly they smell fantastic and fill the whole house with the most wonderful aroma, and I think they are the fail safe cake for anyone, of any age for any occassion, because everyone loves chocolate!!!
This particular cake has a white chocolate mud cake for the top tier, and chocolate for the bottom tier and was for a lovely guy's 25th birthday.

Wedding cake, almost finished

This week I have been making a wedding cake for a friend, who wanted a simple and elegant cake, with a little bit of bling. Her bouquet is a posie of roses, so I am going to replicate that for the cake. Here is it before the roses...

Busy week ahead

This weekend I have a wedding cake and a two tier birthday cake, so it's going to be very busy... plus we are going camping on Saturday, after delivery of the cakes, of course! I am very excited, it's my first two tiered wedding cake, and I can't wait to put all of the elements together and see the end result! Of course... pictures will be posted!!!!

Flower Cupcakes

I have been playing around with various buttercream recipes, and recently tried Swiss Meringue Buttercream. While it was lovely and smooth, I found the taste a little too buttery, so seeing these cupcakes were just for us, I thought I would play around with the recipe and reduced the quantity of butter and I think it tasted much better. Next time I think I will add a little more sugar, and perhaps use vanilla beans rather than extract. I am determined to get the perfect buttercream... one that pipes beautiful swirls but tastes fantastic! Here they are decorated with daisies, ribbon roses, five petal flowers and a large fantasy flower.

Hot Pink Cupcakes

These cupcakes were just for fun... using the leftover elmo icing, I added some more butter, milk and icing sugar to tone down the red turning it into a beautiful hot pink which looked great with the hot pink cake cases.

Elmo

Today's cake was for a little boy's first birthday, and his Mum requested an elmo cake. It was just for their family, so a single layer carved from a 9" vanilla butter cake was perfect.

Novelty Cakes.....

This must be the week for novelty cakes...I have had 3 enquiries, an elmo cake, a ute cake and a butterfly cake!!!! Something new for me to google at nights:) The elmo cake is for this Thursday, so I will post some pictures then... the rest are still in the works!