March
13
2010
13
2010
My Birthday
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Today I celebrated my 31st birthday in Mudgee with a few good friends and family. I decided that my cake had to be something a little different so made 5 x 15cm square cakes. I have been trying out a few experimental cakes of late so along with a few favourites decided on Cherry Ripe Mud, Peppermint Mud, Caramel Mud, Citrus Mud and White Chocolate Mud. |
I made them to look as though they were a pile of presents and thought this was a great way to show all the different flavours of cakes I can do. Each cake was covered with ganache and a thin layer of fondant icing. I chose pastel colours of pink, purple, green, yellow and light brown. Each cake was decorated with handmade fondant shapes of flowers, stars and hearts. The top tier, I placed some handmade fondant ribbon curls, two handmade fondant flowers and the numbers “31″.
My young son Jake was very keen to help and made a few fondant shapes and numbers to place on the cake. Everyone enjoyed the cakes and had a lovely sample of each cake to take home with them. Thank you all for a lovely afternoon. I’m looking forward to the next Mudgee birthday cake!!
Christee-Lee 
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hey Christee-Lee,
i just stumbled across your website. great work girl! very clever. am i doing something wrong because i can’t seem to find your delicious recipes…i’m wanting to make my children a nice out- there cake for their birthdays in a couple of weeks. please let me know how to acess your recipes?
Thank you for your kind words Maria! I’m glad you enjoy my website!
I have not published any of the recipes I use on the website as they are not mine to do so. All these yummy cake recipes I get from great books such as “The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating” – Murdoch Books, “Planet Cake” – Paris Cutler and “The Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook” – Jennifer Graham. These three books are my absolute favourite, giving you the basic cake recipe, techniques and product information. They also have some cake designs with step by step instructions or simply use their recipe for the basic cake then let your creativity take over! As for the experimental cakes I have been doing (as above) I have simply been using the base recipe as found in these books and playing with flavours eg. adding a Peppermint Crisp & a little peppermint essence for the peppermint mud and adding a Cherry Ripe to get the Cherry Ripe mud. Good Luck with your children’s cakes and most of all have fun with it!!