My next project was 50 mini cupcakes for a Hawiian themed Hen’s Party.  I always love mini’s! I made a batch of vanilla cupcakes in red, pink and yellow cases.  I decided to test out my Christmas present (new piping tips) and chose three different tips.  I made three different buttercreams, red boysenberry flavour, pink strawberry flavour and yellow lemon flavour.  I piped buttercream onto each little cake.  I then topped each mini cuppie with a hand made fondant flower.  What cute little cakes!

I’ve also had four more bookings for the coming weeks.  What a great start to 2012!

I’ve finally added the two Christmas cakes I made to the gallery.  My memory card in my camera decided to cease working with all the photos which had not been uploaded still on there.  Luckily I managed to take just a couple at the last minute before delivery.

So, Fruit cake with white chocolate chips is what both of these cakes are.  They are covered in white chocolate ganache and fondant.  The larger square cake is a 25cm.  The lady who purchased this cake was planning to give it as a gift to her mother for Christmas as she loves this fruit cake (I made her 80th Birthday cake last year) I had free reign with the design and actullay found myself struggling to come up with ideas for this one.  I knew I wanted it to be a more traditional look, but thought should I be going more of an Aussie Christmas look as the traditional look is a winter Christmas.  I decided to stick with the traditional winter Christmas theme and covered the entire cake in white fondant with white fondant snow flakes.  I hand modelled a Christmas tree and presents and two snowmen.  I added an extra special touch with the gold and pearl cashous and completed the snow effect with white pearl shimmer dust.

The second cake was a gift for my sister and her family.  She was keen to have a Christmas cake just like Nanna Joy had made in the past.  She had asked for this for the previous Christmas but I unfortunately didn’t have the time.  So I couldn’t let another year go by without her Christmas cake.  I decided to add my personal touch to this and gave her the fruit and white choc cake.  It was a smaller cake, only a 15cm round.  I decided this one should be a more fun cake than the previous one and went with Santa’s belly!  I covered the cake in white chocolate ganache and then red fondant.  I wrapped a black piece of fondant around the cake for Santa’s belt and added a big gold belt buckle.  My sister was happily suprised with her gift and says she enjoyed the cake.

So starting with Nan’s cake.  We have always spoke of Nan being the “Queen Bee” of our family, with six children of her own plus grandchildren, great grandchildren and even her first great great grandchild on the way!! At family gatherings she will sit back and take it all in and appreciate the lovely big family she has created hence the name “Queen Bee”.  I thought it would be perfect to create a cake around this theme and decided on a beehive shaped cake with the Queen Bee on top and all her little bees around the hive.  I had initially planned to have this the traditional yellow beehive, bees etc however my Aunties informed me they were having a lilac, silver and black theme for her party.  OK so now I was thinking of scratching the whole beehive idea and thinking of going something totally different to fit in with their colour scheme until my mum suggested being a little creative, sticking with my theme and making small changes to fit in with the colour scheme.  So, a lilac beehive it is!!! on a silver board with little silver and black bees.  I decided to keep the Queen Bee yellow and black and gave her a silver crown and star wand.  The actual beehive cake was made from three tiers of round mud cakes, Cherry Ripe mud, caramel mud and white chocolate mud.  Each tier was separated with a thin board for ease of serving and allowing a choice of cake flavour for all guests.  I was happy with the end result and hope that Nan liked it too! Happy Birthday Nan, Love you xxxxx

My next project for the weekend was 16 mini Spongebob Square Pants cakes.  Someone had seen the Spongebob Cake I had made for my niece a few weeks earlier and had a nephew who was also Spongebob mad.  She thought a few mini Spongebob cakes would be the perfect gift for this little three year old and his little friends.  To make these, the cake was the easy part.  A vanilla slab cake which I devided into 16 mini rectangles.  The hard part was covering each of these little fellows with a thin layer of ganache then creating mini Spongebobs with coloured fondant.  This little excercise took HOURS!!! but was well worth the effort!  They looked a treat all set out on the board, the client was happy and hopefully her little nephew was too!

Earlier this week I received a parcel which my husband had ordered for me. The “Agbay” cake leveller! Now I must say that this cake leveller is awesome!!! I have previously been using the large Wilton cake leveller and have struggled with it, finding that the blade bends whilst cutting and having to need too many hands to keep it cutting straight. Having now used the Agbay, I absolutely recommend it to anyone who like me has a passion with cake decorating. It took me a total of 3 minutes to level my cake including the measuring up of the height I wished to cut. The blade cut beautifully with ease and precision. The blade did not bend and had a perfect finished result. I am very impressed!!! Thanks Dame for finding me the absolute best investment we have made yet.