19th Birthday Cupcake Cake
After my mother took some of the Oreo Cookies and Cream Cupcakes into work, one of her colleagues asked if I would be interested in making nineteen of the cupcakes for her daughter's nineteenth birthday. When it got closer to the time, A asked if I could arrange the cupcakes in the shape of the number 19. After how pleased I was with how the…
Father’s Day BBQ Cake
A few months ago I started my subscription to Cake Decorating Central's Kit of the Month as a way of learning a few new cake decorating techniques and improve my skills that little thing called fondant. The kit for August was all about the dad's being a Father's Day BBQ Cake. Now this was an absolutely perfect centrepiece for Father's Day…
Golf Course Cupcake Cake
My father loves golf. Most weekends he would be at the golf club playing a round or being a part of the committee and whenever there was a tournament on TV he would be watching it no matter what time of the day or night it was. As much as he would try to get my brother and I to play as well, which we did a little when we were kids, it wasn't…
Macaron Tower
September is a busy month birthday wise, as I am sure most people appreciate. For me, across nine days there are nine birthdays (plus a few stragglers at the beginning and end of the month), with six of those falling on the 11th and 12th. This year also happens to be the year all my friends from school are turning 30 (I am next year given I…
My Best Friend’s Wedding… Cake
In February I had the utmost pleasure of making the wedding cake for one of my best friend's on her wedding day. I have never EVER made a wedding cake before, and given I had only got married myself in October last year, I knew how much pressure there is for it to be perfect (after the annoyance we went through with ours, but that's another…
Peach Ombre Petal Cake
I was lucky enough to be asked to make the cake to celebrate the 90th birthday of my friend's grandmother. When the G-Star was asked what cake she would like for her birthday, the answer was for the same as the wedding cake. The decoration had to be different so instead of piping roses on the outside as I did for the wedding cake, I used…
Purple Corset Cake
One of the hubby's best mates turned 40 at the beginning of March and the hubby came home one night and asked if I would like to make the cake for J's birthday. Of course I said yes, and then he asked if I could make the cake in the shape of breasts. Even though I haven't really made a lot of "novelty" cakes, well, make that none whatsoever,…
Red Velvet Rose Cake for Inner Wheel
In May I was asked to recreate the red velvet rose cake from My Best Friend's Wedding Cake by the mother of the bride for a luncheon of the local Inner Wheel group in August. The cake was to be predominately the same as the wedding cake, however as the symbol of the Inner Wheel is a red rose, a few of these were scattered in amongst the…
Southern Bombe
Another one of the cookbooks I purchased recently was SprinkleBakes by Heather Baird. I came across Heather's blog when I was looking for red recipes to use up the extra food colouring purchased for My Best Friend's Wedding Cake and I made the Red Spiral Biscuits, also featured in the book. As I was flicking through the book when it…
Wannabe Colouring Book Cake
Over the last couple of weeks I have shown you very tasty marshmallow fondant, how to make a fondant wood grain cake board and the final piece of the puzzle is the cake that it was all made for. A lovely lady that my mum works with, who also happened to do an amazing job setting up the reception for our wedding a couple of years ago, has a…