Cupcake Party

Babushka dessert table

2011-12-20T01:09:00.000-08:00

On Sunday I completed another Amazing course at Faye Cahill Cake Designs in Marickville.

The beautiful Babushka...

I knew what I wanted to do with this cake. I wanted to give it to my Son's teachers as a thankyou for all the countless hours they have spent, not just being his teacher, but offering him the best Start to his schooling for Infants. I decided the cake as beautiful and stunning as it was, was simply not a big enough Thankyou, I needed to to more. I desided that I would Style a Christmas Dessert table for them to enjoy on the last day of term. I found a beautiful Wrapping paper at Officeworks, that was designed by Christina Re. That was my inspiration. From there I took the colours, red, gold, and white from the paper, and hints of Purple from the Babushka. I made the Cupcakes, and used my stencil pattern and gold Luster to highlight them. The Dessert table featured different heights, beautiful jars, ferrero raffaello, fererro rocher, macaroons made by Her Macaroons, Fruit mince tarts, Malteasers, Jaffas, Candy Canes, Individual chocolate bars, Gold Bon bons, Lindt Choclate balls, Chocolate Brownies, and of course the Centerpiece Babushka cake. {the crying babushka}. They loved it so much, and I was really pleased with the end result. It Just proves that you don't always need fancy back drops, {I used the wrapping paper} and also used the wrapping paper to style the plates, and wrap the Chocolate bars. The jars I found in a dollar store for a bargain price of $35ea. The stand the cake was on was a cardboard box {nothing fancy} That I covered in the Wrapping paper. The only problem was that my Camera battery had exhausted itself, and I forgot to charge it, so the pictures are... well... Ordinary... However, Im sure you will still be able to appreciate the photos none the less... Please enjoy looking at the Photos as much as I loved to do this table

Lessons in cake making

2011-12-17T14:19:00.001-08:00

1. Always be organised
2.clean as you go
3. mistakes may seem like the worst thing in the world but there is nothing that can't be fixed or covered.
4. What 1 person may not like, other people will love
5. always credit where you got inspiration from
6. do not copy exactly other peoples designs... change it to make it yours.
7. You never ever know it all.... There will always be people better than you to learn from.
8. The day I think I know it all is probably the day I should stop making cakes.
9. Find equipment that isn't just for cake making and use it. eg. play doh impression mats, craft equipment, sewing equipment etc.
10. find your inspiration beyond cakes.

Wonderful Weddings

2011-12-05T02:17:00.000-08:00

The last week was a busy one, One the line up was A Wedding Cake with 200 Dessert Serves, A cupcake Party event for 16 hens, Some Christmas Cupcakes, and Im sure a few more things in there that my mind has blanked on after a week of total sleep deprivation... The week started on Monday, I consulted my sketches for the Wedding cake. Could I really pull this off? Was I bitting off more than I could chew... Well I have paid an extensive amount of money in training... But 200 dessert serves????? I got all my prep work done... making flowers, preparing ganache, making syrups, torting cakes. Then the fun began, My kitchen was a swarm of Ganache come tuesday... I had to make 3 different flavoured ganaches... Raspberry and white chocolate Ganache, Bittersweet dark chocolate ganache, dark chocolate ganache, and white chocolate ganache... Sorry did I say 3 flavours? I meant 4! Any way, using my new found skills that I learnt at Faye Cahill Cakes A few weeks ago, I set to on the task ahead. Somewhere in between looking after 3 children (and a husband), between the hours of 8pm and 4am My work was being done. Day 1 Prep, Day 2 Ganache, Day 3 Ganache, Day 4 Cover, Day 5 & Day 6 Decorate! Well I finished the cake. Phew... but before delivering it, I had booked in to do a cupcake party on the same day (Will I ever learn when it is too much?... I don't think so ;)) It was so much fun and a good distraction from the impending "Cake delivery". Now I have come up with a term, It is called "cake anxiety". I am sure 99.99% of cake decorators experience this. It is the sickly nervous feeling (similar to being in love,) that you get a) when moving a heavy cake, b) when transporting a cake, and c) walking the cake into the venue d) until we hear feedback (reduced but still active) . I find us cake decorators can be extremely sensitive,whilst this feeling usually decreases significantly when the cake is sitting safely on the cake table, and instructions are in the correct hands, and the venue staff oooooh and aaaaaah over your cake. The feeling never subsides completely until I hear any sort of feedback from the person whom has ordered... (In fact I still have a few restless nights from cakes I made near the beginning that I never heard feedback from) Lucky for me in this instance, my cake anxiety was short lived with a Beautiful message from the bride the next day (A record!)

To finish the week off, I started on my Christmas decorations, well Christmas cupcake decorations anyway :) I am still yet to put up A Christmas tree... My poor Children, It must be hard to live with a cake obsessed mum ;)

(Oh yes I knew I would forget something).. I also set up a Toy Story Lolly Table, for the compettition winner on my facebook page. Anyway... Until next time, stay true, and keep on caking...

Course with Faye Cahill Cakes

2011-11-20T15:34:00.001-08:00

This week I embarked on my first course at Faye Cahill Cakes.
I have done other classes, but I knew this was going to be different. It was amazing I learnt so many new skills and tips and the flow of coffee and drinks through the day surely helped. The teacher Mav and Viola were so lovely and really made the class a perfect day... I even got to see an amazing cake that Faye was doing finishing touches on. (cake envy if I ever experienced it;)) I really really enjoyed the class and would recommend their classes to everyone. Here are the pictures of the finished cake. Beautiful... Even if I do say so my self. :)

Cake collage

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Ooooh look a collage of cakes :)

A few more things completed at planet cake.

2011-11-07T17:13:00.001-08:00

The last week was amazingly fun... I had booked in for basics 104 at Planet cake as well as novelty 101 (see previous post). The 104 I chose the bold colours of black, white and red. Luigi was the teacher for this 2 day course. He is a great teacher with a good sense of humour. His skills are amazing and I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to learn from him in this fast paced 2 day course. I also a couple of weeks ago made bride and groom figurines with the lovely talented Anna Maria at planet cake as well... So cute and lots of fun. I can't wait for my next round of courses next year :) This week I also helped A lovely boy create a cake for his scout group. My favourite cake of the week was definitely the coconut and lime (my signature flavour) guitar....
I also enjoyed doing a cupcake party in a Chinese restaurant... Yep it really can be done anywhere :)
Keep on caking xxx

Come fly with me vintage inspired event

2011-10-30T14:23:00.001-07:00

Today was my daughters 3rd birthday. The planning for this party started months ago when i booked in to do the novelty 101 at planet cake. It was a beautiful hot air balloon cake. From that moment i knew the date for the party and i knew the theme. UP UP AND AWAY (COME FLY WITH ME). I straight away went to ham and pea design and papperie and ordered their printable collection. So then i knew the date, time, place, cake, theme, and also the food choice. I wanted my little miss 3 to have a perfect party so i hired some toys from tiny toys toy hire and children's trestle tables and chairs. I ordered kite kits for the children to create some kites to take home. This was months ago. I organised food from fleur de sel, and her macaroons, So I guess what Im trying to say is my little girls party has consumed my thoughts for... Well... A long time. Today was frantic busy, but worth every second to see her so happy with her friends. The best thing was using the new backdrop I got made, the hardest was getting everything from my house to my inlaws, and setting up with miss 3 tugging my skirt and stealing biscuits and cupcakes while i set up... (grrr) my favourite part was helping the children make kites... Do you remember flying a kite as a kid? I used to go with my dad and after he used to buy me a strange sweet from the local China town.... It was sweet and kinda sour and salty as well, the kind of thing that drives your tastebuds wild as you have no idea what to expect. Enjoy the pictures.

(some other places i used) TLBC For glass jars, bottles, lollipops, drizzle sticks, boxes via tlbc (Mon tresor). Jumping jay jays castles, popular treats for the push pop containers.

Golf and cake...

2011-09-18T23:32:00.001-07:00

So the last week envolved a jersey cake and a golf green cake with 30cupcakes. Of course i was completely unorganised last week so ended up laging far behind my usual schedule. (bake on tuesday or wednesday, ganache on wed/thurs, decorate friday, deliver saturday)
This week saw me ganaching and decorating everything on friday night with two early (before 10am) deliveries.... Needless to say i didnt sleep (much). However this was my own fault so dont need any sympathy for my brain freeze of the week. I did get to meet the one and only Maisie Parish at at demonstration at Planet cake on friday... She is an amazing lady, and is a true master of the craft... She even signed my book (starstruck much?) Well I did somehow manage to finish my cakes and was pleased with the results. (but i forgot to take pictures in my rush (and sleep deprivation) Sunday called for a fun Cupcake Party... I always love doing these jobs.... :)
Well thats me covered... Until next week keep on caking!

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2011-09-14T06:21:00.000-07:00

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A week of great cakes and terrible pictures

2011-09-12T15:18:00.001-07:00

this past week I had the pleasure of making 3 wedding cakes for 3 amazing couples. The first was a topsy turvey cake. Now this was my second tt cake ever. The first was done in a course so to say I was a little nervous... Well you get the idea. I made it with very few dramas as it turned out except when at one point I thought the whole cake would fall over (part of the illusion of the cake.)

The second wedding cake was for an amazing lady and her "now" husband. A giant cupcake which was completed with a giant cupcake stand. Complete with green butterflys and purple hydrangeas.. This is where the bad photos start (no light at the venue :()

The last cake was a beautiful (more traditional) wedding cake for one of my husbands friends. I matched the design to the invitation... Once again sorry for the poor picture quality...
The week was exactly why i love what i do... Every single cake was completely different and represented the couples perfectly. I love the diversity... Well blog soon sorry about the photos this week.. Next blog i promise i will do better xxx

Cupcake parties & NRL cakes

2011-09-03T18:38:00.001-07:00

What a fun week... And busy too. It the weekend started on friday making 150 cupcakes for 2 cupcake parties over the weekend. Friday also involved making an awesome Nrl bulldogs cake at
www.cakedecoratingcentral.com

Then saturday was a hens cupcake party. It was a lot of fun. Everyone got into it... You should of seen the creations... Amazing... In fact im sure some of those girls could put me out of business, and although i was teaching I have to say i got some ideas off them... You know like a frsh perspective... I guess thats what makes my job so amazing... I continually have the chance to learn new things.
Today im off too another cupcakeparty... This time for 9 year olds... The upcoming week is going to be full of great creations.... Cupcakes black and white, a topsy turvey wedding cake, a cupcake tower and giant cupcake wedding cake, and a romantic 3 tier wedding cake.... Looks like i better get my bake on.... Im sure this week will be sleep deprived and full of mishaps and adventures and ill be sure to let you know about them all... Ps. Happy fathers day... And in honour of my dad i have posted a picture....
Yes thats me as a cub scout dib dib dib, dob dob dob i will do my best ;) ( hey that could be a cake makers motto)

New phone... Does this mean more blogs

2011-08-27T16:36:00.001-07:00

I just realised my new phone has a blogging app, so maybe this will encourage so more posts :) im sorry im such a slack blogger... But for now here is a picture of my latest creation. With hints of lemon yellow, and baby blue its sure to be a delightful addition to the sweet treats fleur de sel are making for a christening.
I have some exciting news but i cant share just yet, but i will as soon as i can :)

Lego... OR IN DUTCH "leg godt", meaning "play well."

2011-08-15T02:43:00.001-07:00

Well another week has passed us by. As you probably guessed by the tittle, this week involved Lego of some sort. Who remebers playing with LEGO as a child. I remember sitting there lost for hours on my play mat, the only thing breaking the silence was the scream of my mother or father as they stepped on a scew piece of LEGO somewhere in the middle of the lounge room. (Nothing makes you feel alive quite like the imense pain of stepping on one of these beauties!)

So when I was asked to make a LEGO cake my heart started beating so fast from the excitement... Can you imagine cake + LEGO + ganache + did I say cake??? This is a cake makers favourite things (building, construction etc etc.) So my task was set before me. I opted for a Vanilla flavoured cake with chocolate ganache filling (nice and delicious but not to heavy for the kids eating it.)

The last few weeks also called for A (Band name) TOOL Cake, rainbow swirl cupcakes, Chealsea football club cupcakes, A combined 21st & 18th Birthday cupcakes, Cupcakes for Wayside Chapel in the Cross.

(Edible images show just how easily you can have your Logo on our cupcakes)

But the real highlight of the week... possibly even better than Lego was... Creating these Super Dooper cute Birthday Invitations for a little Boys 1st Birthday. Now I have to be honest invitations are not my forte, but when my Mr. 7's teacher asked if I made them I just couldnt help myself... The Very Hungry Caterpiller theme... Now Im not sure about you but that book was in my house growing up, and is in my house now for my children to enjoy and when they have children I ll be sure to be buying it for my Grandchildren... I remember reading it, turing every page... waiting for it to transform to a beautiful butterfly, and everytime I have read it has been just as exciting as the first time. If you have no idea what Im talking about, here is a link to buy it on AMAZON, and I highly recommend it.

These were Super fun to make, and play with after I made them.

He is a lucky boy... She is a fantastic teacher and Im sure a fantasic Mummy.

BLOGS

2011-07-28T19:56:00.000-07:00

Here are a few links to some blogs that have featured cupcakeparty... Thankyou for blogging about me... xxx

http://pieceofcakepartysandcelebrations.blogspot.com/2011/07/wonka-birthday-bash-real-party-feature.html

http://blog.fleurdesel.com.au/2011/07/christening-dessert-table-by-cupcake-party/

These people are lovely business' that I have worked with or used their products, Im very blessed to be featured on their blogs...

Dessert tables and lots of cupcakes

2011-07-24T18:12:00.000-07:00

Hello, how have you been. Im such a slack blogger.
So what have I been up to?
well here are a few pictures... with a few stories to go along with them...

A titanic Dessert table, Including; cupcakes, cakepops, iceberg jelly, jaffas, malteasers, ppcorn, lemonade, and some personalised lindt chocolate bars.

This was done for my Mr. 7. He had told me for months and months and months how he absoulutely must have a Titanic cake... So I start planning how Im going to make this cake. Of course he wanted it just before it sank when it was on a 45 degree angle off the cake board complete with people swimming/ drowning in the water. Now that sounds really great, but Cake at a 45 degree angle with no support underneath it is... well IMPOSSIBLE, and I thought the people drowning was a little morbid for a 7th Birthday dont you think?

So I sent out invitations that I masde to look like boarding passeS, AND i WAS THINKING YEP, mR. 7 is going to looooove this.

Then 4 days before the party he drops the first BOMBSHELL "mum I dont like the titanic anymore, I want an army theme party", to which I replied, "Too bad, I have already organised everything" lol .

Then after slaving over his cake trying to carve the shape, and almost getting RSI in my hands, finally I create it (pretty pleased with my efforts at 2 in the morning) On his birthday I show him his "MASTERPIECE"... "oh yeah mum it's alright, but.... you forgot the GYmnasium and the grand staircase, and where are the life boats? it's not really an exact replica mum, next time and you try to make me a nerf gun gake that actually shoots bullets then Ill be impressed"

Wow shut down by a 7 year old... that hurt... but it hurt more because I put so much love into it, and he didnt really care too much for it. It made me think how spoilt children are these days, and Its not his fault I have given him his whole life on a platter, but that was the wake up call I needed to realise enogh is enough..

Have you ever been shut down by a kid... its a crazy thing!?

Corporate cupcakes, I made 100 of these suckers, then realised I forgot to add half the butter and sugar, so they were more like scones rather than cupcakes, so that batch hit the bins, and I got to rebaking them the night before their 6.45 am delivery... (and they were perfect the 2nd time around)

My 25th willy wonka themed party

more photos here on facebook

It waqs great fun, but my waist suffer with a 3.5kg gain... lol that should be a record!xxx

Winter wonderland cupcakes from a Kit of the month from http://www.cakedecoratingcentral.com/

chk chk boom cupcakes... need I say more?

And my most recect Pretty was this Blue and yellow Christening Dessert table for my beautiful Mr. 4 months.

A special thanks to My little Jedi for the design of the printables.

Fleur de Sel for the most delicious treats including lemon macaroons, lemon marshmellows, and to die for chocolate mousse... mmmm yum

Also I made the cake on a course at Couture Cake Classes

and the edible image cupcake toppers were from Cakes around town.

More photos can be found here on facebook

Well thats all for now... Love to you all.

Blog soon

Wow it has been a while

2011-05-28T22:47:00.000-07:00

So, fans, and readers it has been such a long time since my last post. I have been kind of busy with a new baby... He is so gorgeous little Joshua.
I took the children to get professional portraits done, and the end result was so cute I simply must share.

http://www.israelsmith.com/portraits/naomis-cherubs-in-studio-april-2011/

So apart from the baby what have I been up to.
Well now Im making and creating labels, and chocolate wrappers for the beautiful dessert tables that are becoming evr so popular.

They are great because I can design them to match the theme of any event, or use invitation designs to complete a whole package.

I Have made a few cakes, and lots of Cupcakes.

Anyway... I promise regular updates from now on xxx

shoes & cake blues

2011-03-20T02:49:00.000-07:00

So this past week I completed a cake course at http://www.cakedecoratingcentral.com/ the beautiful shoe box, It was such a fun course and I met some really lovely people. It was especially fun because I got to do it with one of my closest friends Amanda... her shoe box and shoe were amazing in colours of brown and beige.
I opted with pink and black theme. The cake was made on foam (It was for display)
I think if I make this shoe again, I will definately not opt for black, as it never seemed to harden properly, and I think with all the moistuer in the air it certainly didnt help.

Oh and my shoe box made it to 6th most saved cake on http://www.cakecentral.com/ what an honour... truly as thousands of cake makers, decorators, and enthusiasts all view and post pictures... I was so proud, i even took a screen shot of it, but the credit really must go to my wonderful teachers.

I made this caramel mud cake with chocolate ganache for the lovely Natalie, whom won it on my facebook page through her friend Divesh for her Birthday...

Comments on the cake were...

"THANK YOU! IT WAS AMAZING AND SOOOO YUMMM!!! EVERYONE LOVED IT! THANK YOU! FANTASTIC JOB!"

Very very pink cake... and what a shoe to match :)

Now we have covered the shoes... what about the cake blues...

The bride wanted a beautiful tapered wedding cake with flowers, and a hint of blue, this was the design I came up with....

Can you see the cute little rabbit between the bride and groom... I love it when people really personalise their wedding cakes/ toppers/ figurines...

The cake was delivered to Curzon Hall (near Ryde). It was a beautiful venue, but I was upsey when the staff tried to "help" and proceeded to put finger marks on the cake/ cake board on delivery, these did get smoothed out (mostly), but I was a little furious.

Oh and when the man said my cake was a scrambled eggs cake, because of all the flavours (white choc mud with rasp & choc ganache, caramel mud +choc ganache, & lemon vanilla buttercake) I'm telling you... do not tell a woman that is 9 months pregnant, and has spent the last 60 hours (add extra for flower making etc) working, dreaming and thinking of this cake that it is scrambled eggs cake... I don't care how you meant it!

This cake did not come without it's own challenges.

1) structure & supports, soloution = alot of supports, chocolate ganache & a very cold lounge room.

2) Delivery (very heavy) + a lot of stairs = took my assistant Josh K. He is proving to be quite useful.

Overall I had a busy week, but I enjoyed it... actually I loved it, even though a couple of times I thought I might just bring on the labour from the stress :)

welcome the new webpage

2011-03-06T02:25:00.000-08:00

This week I decided that my webpage needed a revamp, So i put on my best technical hat, logged onto Weebly and thought here goes.
Well, after some general spelling, punctuation and grammer issues (as noted by my lovely fans) I finished it. http://www.cupcakeparty.com.au/. Please take a look and tell me your thoughts.

This week Anna (from facebook page) won a free cake to be delivered to her. She is going to use it for her Nonna's 89th Birthday... wow... 89, I hope that I am still enjoying cake when I am 89.
The cake is from a course I completed today at PlaNET Cake in Balmain. Basics 102.

I have to say, my favourite cake I made this week was the Kitchen tea cake I made for my lovely friend Erin. She was the best looking hen in the world. Her cake was present boxes, and the biggest compliment was when one of the guests thought Erin had recieved something from Tiffany's, until on closer inspection she realised it was a cake. The flavour was white chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache, and dark chocolate gluten free mud cake with white chocolate ganache.

In the process of making this cake I stuffed up the first cake, by not cooking it long enough. (so that wound up in the bin, which left me rushing all of friday night to change the design and rebake. I decorated some on the friday night but did the most on the saturday morning (only a few hours before the party was due to start.) This made me realise that anything is possible, and never give up.

I made it to the party at 12.59pm, with 1 min to spare.

It was a great day, and the cake was devoured and enjoyed (based on feedback) by all... Phew!

I can't remember what other cake adventures I had this week, but I certainly do feel like I am cramming in as much as possible before the lil baby's due date on the 27th March.

Am I taking time off work you ask? yes of course... while im in hospital I wont be working :) lol.

Anyways I know this is a long post... have a good week everyone... :)

Cupcake fever, and courses

2011-02-26T15:16:00.000-08:00

So the last 2 weeks felt like cupcake fever had hit...

Jungle cupcakes for a childs party at the local primary school.

Then some suprise cupcakes for a Birthday

Noddy cupcakes for an adult party? To go with some very very very naughty cupcakes which can be seen at the following link (18+ only)
https://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=125558444131778&aid=14951#!/photo.php?fbid=193075490713406&set=a.125566640797625.14951.125558444131778&theater

The week also included a course at Cake decorating central on flower making, more specifically on the beautiful Hibiscus, and A circus cake topper.

And I also took part in the Planet cake 101 course at Balmain, last Wednesday, which was a blast.
Here is the finished product

This cake was then drawn as a prize on the facebook page, and the lucky winner Sally used it for her brothers birthday dinner...

I hope that I never stop learning, growing and developing in my cake making, and business...

Today is my Baby Sprinkle, and I am having a cake made for me by the lovely Louise at http://www.cakedecoratingcentral.com/, she is doing it so I can have a rest, I am so grateful and cant wait to see the amazing creation she makes, as she has been my teacher almost from the very begining of my cake making journey...

Beach wedding...

2011-02-12T15:28:00.000-08:00

This week I had the privelage of making a beautiful beach themed wedding cake.
The flavour was chocolate mud, and was layered with with chocolate and dark chocolate ganache.
Delivered to Newport Surf Lifesaving club.

Also there were some yummy red relvet cupcakes with elmo & smurfs on them with cream cheese frosting

I had a few troubles with the wedding cake as the weather had been so hot, and the fondant was almost melting in my hands which caused the icing to tear and rip, and especially because of the height on the second tier... What I think I did wrong was have the icing a little thick, which made it very heavy, and pulled alot, but after 3 trys (pulling off the icing and starting again) I finally got it done.

Today Im in the process of making a black and gold channel handbag cake (yep another one) for a 40th birthday. So Now while its sitting in the fridge waiting for the ganache to set, Im going to have a nice cup of tea.

Im running a little behind schedule but It will be delivered on time :)

Naughty but nice cakes

2011-01-29T17:11:00.000-08:00

This week was a lot of fun.
First cab off the rank was a beautiful chanel clutch handbag cake.

This was backed up by a Aussie Day BBQ cake

Then the week finished with a Naughty Nurse cake

Flavours included. White chocolate mud, with raspberry compote and milk chocolate ganache, & Dark chocolate mud with chocolate mousse filling and dark chocolate ganache...

Next week is going to be fun as I recieved a phone call yesterday for a cake for next weekend... A WEDDING CAKE.

A weeks notice to make a wedding cake, most other cake shops would probably not be able to achieve this, but because We bake everything fresh, and never freeze anything it makes no difference to my production line... :)

See you all next week for more cake updates.

PS. I got asked for advice with using fondant so I decided to post my reply to help you all out.

QUESTION
"how hard is it to use fondant?
I have a rectangle slab cake in the freezer i was planning to use for birthday cake

ANSWER
fondant is not "hard" as such to use... here are my tips...
1. Roll it out on icing sugar to stop it sticking
2. dont try and colour white fondant red (it will go pink) use ready made red fondant
3. You dont want it more than 5mm thick once rolled out.
4 make sure the cake is smooth with buttercream or ganache (ganache is harder to get a really smooth finish but boy tastes great)
5. after the cake has been buttercreamed brush lightly with some water or sugar syrup 1pt sugar 3pt boiled water.
6. when attaching the fondant to the cake make sure you secure corners first, to avoid tears.
7. use a cake smoother to smooth and secure fondant. if you dont have, use greese prrof paper and your hand, then go with a piece of fondant in your hand lightly dipped in icing sugar and use that to smooth your cake... works beautifully.

Designer bags and wedding tastings

2011-01-22T21:54:00.000-08:00

This week started off quiet, but of course nothing is ever quiet when it comes to cakes.

So on Thursday met a lovely bride to be, and gave her a cake consultation and tasting.
The flavour was white chocolate mud cake, layered with white chocolate ganache and raspberry compote.

(The cake tasting cake)

So then having already made a cake I decided that 1 was just not enough.

So decided to venture on to make a handbag cake, which was turned into another facebook compettion to win it.

The LV Handbag was soooooooooo fun to make, and I loved how it came to life. All it needed was a designer shoe, some makeup, and jewellery and it would of been everything a woman could want... Whats not to love about cake and designer labels in the same mouthful.

This week coming up is going to be a blast, with 3 awesome cakes to make.
Starting the week off with a designer chanel clutch bag (wow designer fever).
Followed by the great Aussie dream cake a BBQ cake complete with snags for Australia Day, and of course one that I'm very excited to make a naughty nuaghty nurse cake... ;o

Oh and here is a link to make an awesome sugar rose... (not my tutorial, but where I learnt from)
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-make-rose-with-5-petal-cutter-165313/

0r here are written instructions found at the folowing link...
http://www.perfect-wedding-day.com/cake-decorating-for-weddings.html

Have fun... xxx

CAKE WINNER...

2011-01-15T17:49:00.000-08:00

This week was a quiet week in cake making...
However there was one very exciting competition... to win a copy of this cake (shown below) in whatever colour you would like. (As I will be making it in march, for a class at http://www.cakedecoratingcentral.com/)

Lots of entrys... but there can be only one winner...

The lucky winner entered this compettion to win the cake for a friends birthday.

Congratulations DIVESH PRASED who wrote

"I Divesh wants to win it for Natalie Bailey's 24th birthday thats on the 15th of March! its perfect because she loves her shoes and in pink this would be a great cake! to show a celebration of her dreams :)"

So Divesh Please contact me on my email elliott.naomi@gmail.com to confirm a few details... place for delivery, time. I know that I said delivery is for Wednesday 16th March 2011... However if you are planning a special party, I am happy to deliver it on the Friday 18th or Saturday 19th March 2011.

Let me know all the details, including preferred date.

Congratulations again Divesh, and Congratulaions to Natalie... Hope you have a great 24th Birthday.

Lots of Love from Cupcakeparty.

Next week I will post a tutorial on how to make a simple rose that looks like this

It's not a house it's a home...

2011-01-09T01:49:00.000-08:00

So another week has passed us by.
This weeks highlight was definately the making (and delivering) of the 3d house cake.
It was for the family get together, and consisted of vanilla butter cake, layered with milk chocolate ganache, coated it dark chocolate ganache, with pieces of chocolate fondant to make the bricks, the tiles on the roof were airbrushed to give it a terracotta feel.

So much fun.

So here is a picture of what I THOUGHT was the finished product.

OH OOOOH... Then I looked at the picture of the house staring at me from the computer, looked at the house model I made out of cardboard, then I looked at the clients email she sent me, then I looked at the picture she sent me... and I realised instantaneously that I had forgotten the windows, and the back step on the house and the plaque on the front of the cake... and the most important the dad sitting with his son... (obviously this realisation was very quick, and this is exactly why I double and triple check everything.)

So below is the finished cake in all its homely glory...

I loved many aspects of making this cake, the airbrushing, making the tiles, the "unfinished" area waiting to be tiled, the children playing on the lawn, but I have to say it touched me seeing the dad on the roof with his arm around his son. It reminded me of my very own dad, whom I shared so many fun memories with as a child during the renovations of our own family home.

Anyway as it famously quotes in the great Australian movie "The Castle"... "It's not a house it's a home."

New Year... New beginings

2011-01-01T18:23:00.000-08:00

Wow, after a busy 2010, 2011 is already looking to get fired up.

Cake orders have come in for January, February, May, July, August, September... and January 2012.
Phew... who ever would of thought that this would ever be possible. So starting the New Year,I would like to thank all my family, friends, and all my customers new and returning. Without you I would not be where I am today, and I am humbled and blessed.

The New Year also brings about the desire for change and new things, So here is my new blog, with a link to my new twitter account, and the webpage need not feel bad as its getting a whole new revamp as well.

This week I endevor the challenge of making a replica of a house for a special client Maria.
Im excited by this cake, as I love challenges, and I love to create.

Here is a sketch of the house I'm making this week...

Starting this blog I would like to post my top 5 cakes/ cupcakes/ cookies of 2010.

5. My hubby's (not quite a suprise) 30th Birthday cake. This was made between the hours of 2-4am for his suprise party... but he was to clever he already knew that a party had been organised.

4. Katherine & Albert's wedding cake. This 5 tier cake was all fruit cake, and was HUGE, it was heavy to deliver and set up, but I loved it because I learnt so many things from making this cake... oh and it looks beautiful as well.

3. Everyone loves the festive season, and I loved these cupcakes. Little Christmas puds, a Santa belly, cheeky elves, and Christmas baubles... The children loved these, and because they loved them so much, I loved them to.

2. Making these cupcakes with a very talented young Josh was so exciting.

He is a passionate and very talented student, who I'm sure will be very successful oneday in all his cake endevours.

I love these cupcakes because they are a reminder that its never to early or too late to start living your dreams.

1. ... But the no.1 spot has to go to ... My very own wedding cake. Of course I'm completely biased, but it was the best day of my life, and everything in it.