Ellie's 13th Birthday Pressie

Sept 2010 - Wow where has the time gone. When we first met Ellie she was 9 1/2yo. The time has gone so fast and she is now a teenager!! Anyways being of such an importantant age we felt that something more funky and "teenagerish" was called for. The usual butter cake was covered in butter cream and then decorated as a present using black fondant. I am pleased to report that the cake was beautiful and very "funky"

Jude's Wedding Cake

July 2010 - Another one that came through the shop and one that I so underquoted the boss on hours. The design of the cupcakes was taken from the WW Cupcake Book and were chocolate mudcakes covered in choc ganache. The leaves, gumnuts and stems were all hand made using real leaves and balling melted chocolate. Took an age as there needed to have at least 3 leaves and anything up to 10 gumnuts on each. It was a real lesson in chocolate LOL. The main cake however was a 8" triple layer chocolate mud cake filled and covered with ganache. We made chocolate shards to go around the perimeter and Jude had a small posy of flowers that matched her bouquet to sit on top. We then set them all up on the perspex tier - it looked fabulous but unfortunately I am still waiting on the photo of it all set up.

Bronte's School Bday Cupcakes

June 2010 - As per normal Bronte went armed on the last day of school with a few dozen cupcakes to celebrate her birthday. I have been spending a bit of money out of my wages to increase my supplies in cutters and essences. For these I used "Musk" essence which made the icing taste like those pink musk stick lollies (very yummy altho once I had finished icing the several dozen cakes I found it rather overpowering LOL). Also used my new daisy cutter to make the little flowers. We did half in pink and half in blue. The big birthday party is planned for next week so hopefully between now and then I will gain some inspiration for the "masterpiece" LOL

Beautiful Barbie Princess

Sept 2009 - this one has been a long time coming for my Birthday Buddy. The party was delayed a little bit but I am happy to say is going ahead this afternoon - sadly tho, I am going to miss it as I am venturing down to Melbourne for a girly weekend and to suss out some cake shops. Anyways for this cake we made 2 18inch buttercakes and one small pudding bowl cake for the top. They were assembled and filled with lemon butter cream and raspberry jam - have to say is my fave combination. I then crumb covered the cakes with the lemon butter cream and then had different shades of pink and purple fondant which were rolled out into strips to form the skirt. Using one of our play doh cutters I made a top to the skirt and around the base I placed daisies made in the same colours. White daisies adorned the skirt as well. Mini cupcakes surrounded the cake - also adorned with the mini daisies as well.

Funky Flowers

Sept 4, 2009 - these were for my bestest customer. She is just so wonderful and really was one of the first people (Besides DH - thats Dear Husband) to really encourage me into getting into this. Anyways for her daughters class cupcakes and home cupcakes we went for the older girl funky fun flower look. Again had heaps of fun with the fondant. Cakes were just the standard butter cream with a lemon flavoured icing - I swear it is my favourite combination - as a kid my Nanna used to make the most delicious butter cake. While still hot she used to rub a cut lemon over the top and then when cool ice with the lemon icing - was a favourite then and is still standing up there with the tests of time.

Beautiful Butterflies

Sept 3 2009 - Another Busy Week with orders nearly every day - I have been able to purchase a few new things to add to my collection and I think I now have enough saved for my trip to Melbourne. Anyways I have returned to my childhood this week with kneading, colouring, rolling and cutting out various cool shapes - only in fondant instead of Playdoh!! These lovely little butterfly toppers were made for one of the little girls in Elizabeth's class. I really like using the fondant because it air dries quickly but still remains soft enough to enjoy eating. These were a hit both with the boys and girls - and better still I found it hard to walk out the door my head was so swollen from all the accolaides!! LOL.

B B Bumble Beez!!

August 2009 - I went back to my childhood days of playing with plastercine with these little morsels. My Mom required 3 dozen cakes for a Croquet Day she had. Their team had chosen Yellow as there colour and Daffodil Day as their chosen charity. They called themselves the "Bees". I set to work creating little bumble beez on daffodil coloured flowers - I am not quite so adventurous to think that I could create daffodils just yet. These sat on cream coloured butter cream which was swirled on top of the cakes in a beehive fashion. They looked very cute and were a hit on the day - better still, Mum's team won the "High Tea" display too.

Annabelle's Naming Ceremony

August 2009 - I have had a huge week with orders and this one was for a very special little girl for her naming ceremony day. Pink, White and Red Hearts adorned the creation which was another of my wonderful butter cakes with the lovely white chocolate around the outside and ribbons. I seem to be doing a lot of these lately - luckily they are rather easy although time consuming depending on the decorations, and are spectacular centre pieces to a table. We also had 24 mini's around the outside for more oomph!!

Like Chocolate For Women Launch

August 2009 - I have 2 amazing friends who recently relaunched the most wonderful self care book for women. It is a stunning presentation of so many things that we can do as women to look after ourselves and our families. Anyways a fabulous launch party was held and I offered to provide a "door prize" for the evening. As the book was all about "chocolate - LOL Not" the offered box was themed to match. Beautiful choccy cupcakes with scrumptious chocolate icing in a lovely decorated box with gorgeous chocolate ribbons. I took this photo to send to my guru girls and they have now added it to their blogsite too. I feel very spec that in some way I am contributing to their success just as they are mine. Love you girls XX

A Special 40th

July 2009 - have started to get lots of orders through the school now. Obviously word of mouth is spreading - how exciting. Anyways this one was lots of fun - a bit of a combination of my "signature" cakes / cupcakes. The only specifics were that she loved pinks, purples, whites and silvers so this was the result. Pretty spectacular I thought.

Wilton Icing Course

July 2009 - I decided to do the Wilton Icing Course offered at a local homewares shop. It was so much fun and it is just amazing what one can do with buttercream. The only shock was that the Wilton version of buttercream has no butter in it - THEY USE SHORTENING - :-o

It was a 4 week course and as you can see we got to walk away with some pretty delicacies. I am so excited to be able to do the "Wilton Rose" and am very much looking forward to the next course.

Mickey Mouse

June 2009 - Mickey Mouse

Mickey is always a favourite amongst the little ones. for this one we did 36 mini cupcakes for the school celebration and then a larger "Mickey" face for the party. The birthday cake was done in the same fashion as the "Bart Cake" using a star tip to pipe the picture onto a plain background.

Ballet Carnivale!!

June 2009 - This one was an exciting one - and a pure test of imagination. I got this order through a friend in Brisbane. They had liked the Barbie Cake that I did for Lilly and asked if I could do this for there little girl. She was having a Bowling Party and wanted to wear this gorgeous Ballet Tutu. Photos were sent through and to begin with I really thought I would fail. After a lot of searching I came up with another "Carnivale Tent" theme and then had little dolly vardens around the base dressed in their tutus. I had three designs in mind. The blue was the easiest - using a hair scrunchy as the tutu skirt, the pink was just buttercream piped around as the skirt and topped with silver cachous, the last which was my favourite and also the hardest / time consuming. Layers of skirt were made from fondant and "hung" over straws to harden into the wavy look and then assembled. As much as I would have loved to have done these, the price would have blown out and I just did not feel right doing that. In the end we went with the scrunchy option. It was still a stunning look. The main cake was just assembled with choccy planks around the perimeter and then topped with a ribbon tent top.

I thought that the result was stunning!!!

Mo's Carnival Cake

May 2009 - I spent a bit of time on this one - firstly sourcing a design that I liked (and of course the birthday girl liked) and looking for decorations. The only stipulation I was given was that it was colourful to fit in with the Circus Carnival theme. I found these gorgeous 3D Clown Cupcake Picks on Ebay, and the wonderful Circus Animal Candles from a local kitchen shop. The cake itself was made from a 20cm round pan for the base and a 22cm pudding bowl for the top - trimmed down. A butter cream icing in Pillar Box Red covered the cake and then the white stripes and Yellow trim for the Roof Top and Door were made from Fondant Icing. The Stars were also made from fondant and coloured with gold / yellow shimmer dust. The top Stars were sourced from a local Yandina Ebay Seller as well - these were left overs from previous designs (Gotta love stuff that keeps forever in vacuum sealed boxes!!). Anyways, along the way was a little hiccup - my 3yo planting her hands into the uniced cupcakes which meant at the 11th hour we were back to baking - and that was after raiding the neighbours for eggs LOL. Talk about cutting it fine - and of course daughter #2 had a party to go to in between delivery! The look on Mo's face was worth it all. And lets hope that with all the little business cards that I slipped into the single cupcake boxes for kids to take home that I drum up even more business!!! OOh it is becoming very exciting.

Special Gift Box #2 - A Dozen and More

March 2009 - This is the latest in my range. Inspired by a wonderful friend of mine who makes the most amazing gift boxes - for an additional charge I am sure that she would happily design a box to your liking. Anyways ....here is one of mine (yes I have 'box lifted'). For your perusal, colour co-ordinated gift box with 16 cupcakes - Price range will depend on your cake requirements but the starting price $50 pickup or $60 delivered to the Buderim area.

Packaged Gift Box #1 - Half Dozen and More

March 2009 - This is the latest in my range. Inspired by a wonderful friend of mine who makes the most amazing gift boxes - for an additional charge I am sure that she would happily design a box to your liking. Anyways ....here is one of mine (yes I have 'box lifted'). For your perusal, colour co-ordinated gift box with 9 cupcakes - Price range will depend on your cake requirements but the starting price $40 pickup or $50 delivered to the Buderim area.

Diamond Castle Barbie

March 2009 - Diamond Castle Barbie - Isn't she beautiful. We found this design, along with others, in an article to celebrate Barbie's 50 years. Cannot believe that she has been around for that long inspiring generations before us and no doubt generations to come. Anyways, this particular design was requested and we had a lot of fun putting her together. I was ever so reluctant to strip the "Muse" (for those of you that have seen the movie) of her legs that I used a large pudding bowl, along with 2 other round cake tins to assemble enough height. The cakes were coloured with pink food colouring to match the scheme as well. We also added in little mini cupcakes to hold the candles. This certainly inspired some oohs and aahhs at the party - 40 odd little 6 year olds and a few adults (I was mighty chuffed with myself I have to say) - unfortunately you can also see by the picture that by the time we took the photos, little fingers had also been a prodding and the poor girl was taking on a serious slant or maybe she was getting into the theme of the party and ready for the "Disco" moves.

George Clooney LOL

February 2009 - This one was ordered for a 40th birthday. The lucky recipient also has a crush on George Clooney LOL so we decided to incorporate him into the design. A double layer white chocolate mud cake was assembled for this one and we used white chocolate planks to decorate the outside and held together with matching ribbons to the stars and hearts. Full size white chocolate cupcakes also complimented the design.

AAAggghhh Ahoy There Me Hearties

January 2009 - Capt Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl .... This one was created to go along with the Pirates of the Carribean theme for a combined 40th for friends of ours. Along with some amazing costumes, this little (well actually BIG) number was a great hit. The 'black' colouring was a bit of a saga to get to a colour that I was happy with - took the whole bottle !!! Some black tongues went along with it later on too!!! Little mini's with the skull and crossbone flag were presented around the hull of the ship.

Chocolate Swirls

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate ...... mmmmmm

December 2008 - Chocolate swirls seem to be a favourite of everyone. Three different versions here - the first with chocolate gratings, the second boxed as a present, and the third with chocolate sprinkles and cachous. I use the chocolate cake recipe from the WW Kids Cakes book and it has a beautiful light and fluffy texture. Chocolate butter cream to top all three also.