An age and a day....

Okay, so life has moved on too fast for me since my last post. I wanted to put this cake up before christmas but never got around to it. Life got in the way so I hope you will allow me the slip up.

Anyway, I made this cake for a friends little boys birthday and the children in her mothers groups. I loved that she was providing a cake for the mums group babies. I think mums groups are a very special thing and I still love to hear from the ladies that I met through my mums group. We don't meet up anymore unfortunately, but I still hear from them now and then.

So this isn't the most exciting cake on the outside, but on the inside....it is a rainbow cake. You have seen one of these before I am sure and they never fail to impress. It is a white cake recipe coloured in the 7 rainbow colours and iced in a white buttercream. I added a bit of colour in the birthday message.

From what I hear it was a big hit. So belated happy birthday to Samuel and friends.

It's a beautiful day..

Well it was a beautiful day. My lovely friend Emma and her fiance Tegh are now married. It was a beautiful wedding held on the gardens of Bretts Wharf in Brisbane. We were very lucky to be invited as it was a small and intimate wedding.

Emma and her bridal party looked beautiful and Tegh was very handsome. I really enjoyed the speeches as they were very personal and humorous. Teghs' sisters were MC's for the night and did a marvellous job. So thank you to you both for letting us be a part of your special day.

And I was very lucky to be asked to make the cake, cookies and figures for their special day.

The cookies were a lemon shortbread and embossed in roses. The bridal theme colours were baby pink, avocado green and black so I tried to incorporate those colours into the cake and cookies.
 

Their cake was a three tier white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache. There was a quilted tier with silver cachous and a tier with white swiss dots. The top tier was left plain. A large black bow and pearl and diamond brooch was attached to each tier with a pale pink, avocado green and black striped ribbon.

On the top of the cake was a little couple make of sugar paste to represent the couple.

 

So good luck Emma and Tegh and all the best for the years to come.

I was working in the lab late one night..

When my eyes beheld an eerie sight....actually it was more likely that I was shopping when I beheld the eerie sight, but it sounds better this way. What am I talking about....Halloween cookie cutters.

So as my husband is starting to work out, I have a thing for cookie cutters. It has not reached epic proportions yet, but I could get there given time. I love them. And there are some great ones out there - like this one below. I loved it. It is a Fred brand one and my eldest and I had some fun playing around with it.

 

As Halloween fast approaches there are blogs and websites that are overloaded with festive cookie designs. I love them. I was never into halloween to tell the truth but this year I am. And we are planning to dress up too. If I can find a funky hat before then.

This is a shortbread vanilla cookie with white royal icing.

Wedding cake - traditions and elegance

Okay, so I have been busy making a friends wedding cake and cookies...ohh now you know. That is where I have been lurking..but I am not ready to show you that yet. In the midst of all the decorating I have been doing I was thinking about my own wedding and the cake we had. No, I didn't make my own and I think any bride who does is very brave and very organised. We had lots of family travel to us for our wedding so even if I could have, I don't think I would have had the sanity to do it. So getting back to it. Our cake...was very small - only two tiers and was made by the wonderfully talented JudyC in Brisbane. It was a fruit cake (see I told you there was tradition) and there was some orchids to match my bouquet (elegant).

And we loved it. I told my hubby I wanted a big party all over again (one day) for our wedding, so that we could celebrate all over again - and this time I might make the cake ;)  So, did you love your wedding cake? Would you celebrate the same way all over again?

Pink for a cause

I know it is September but sometimes I have to get my butt into gear early. October is around the corner and that means Pink Ribbon day is around the corner. I have a few ideas in mind for this year but I am not sharing them yet. Instead I thought I would share my past pink ribbon efforts.

Last year I made these and donated all the money to the pink ribbon day cause.

These are lemon or chocolate shortbread cookies with a pink fondant covering embossed or plain, with a lustre shimmer dust. Mmmmmm might have to bake tomorrow..I love the lemon ones! So dont forget pink ribbon day is coming.

I think everyone has their good moments and their 'what am I doing?' moments. Well this was a' what am I doing moment'. I decided for my older daughters birthday to make cupcakes for her whole daycare class. Well she was sitting with me when we ran across Jo's cupcake gallery.

Well she instantly fell in love with her cupcake princess' and I said' sure darling - I will make 2 dozen of those for you'. I love making figures normally and if I didn't have to make multiples of these I would probably be more excited about it. And, this would have been fine without the other two cakes I had to do that week....but by the time I got to doing these on the Tuesday night I was over it. She still adored them, just as all little girls and daughters will, but I would love to find another time when I have 'spare time' to try them again.

If you haven't been over to look already then please do, Jo's cupcake gallery is marvelous and she is a very talented cake figure artist with a unique style. I love her work. As you will see on Jo's page her princess' look great.

 

A christening and first birthday

Really busy at the moment every one. But I thought if I don't post this now I never will.

This is a christening and first birthday combined cake. It is two stacked mud cakes, one being dark chocolate hazelnut and the other cherry ripe mud cake. Both divine tasting, although my favourite is the hazelnut. They are covered in dark chocolate ganache and vanilla flavoured satin ice.

The bear is styrofoam and everything is else is edible.

The design comes from Debbie Brown's Gorgeous and Gruesome cakes book.