Orange Buttercream Ruffle Cake

Maria ordered this little ruffled beauty for her daughter's astronaut themed birthday today. It really is a mini cake in size, only 5", but there is a lot of yumminess crammed into this small package!

The cake is strawberry/vanilla swirl cake filled, covered and ruffled into decadent vibrant orange buttercream.

Happy Birthday !

A Rainbow Rufflicious Birthday Cake

Lina from Chanele Rose Flowers & Events asked me to make a cake for her daughter's birthday this weekend. All I was told was it was rainbow theme and "do what you want"! Yippee!

My love of ruffles is widely known, but I wanted to try my hand at some rainbow ruffles! Let the ruffle marathon begin!

I ruffled the sides and thought it would be cool to do the top also! Loved that effect! Then when I was done, I sat back and thought it needed something a little more on top! Rainbow ruffled pom pom balls was called for!!!

Such a fun and bright cake and Lina saw it and teared up - hands down best reaction!!

Happy Birthday Chanele!

Cute as a Button Birthday Cake

This is a blast from the past - 6 months past to be exact!

Nicole from Pretty and Print ordered this cake for her daughter Tahlia's 1st birthday back in February. 

Nicole had designed the cutest ever invitations for this "Pie" and buttons themed party. The little character is an actual character called Pie and Tahlia loves her little Pie a lot! This cake was designed based off Nicole's invitations.

The party, which was so beautifully styled by Nicole, along with my cake is featured in the winter edition of My little jedi out today!

The character "Pie"

Happy 1st Birthday Tahlia!

Roll up, Roll up Carnival Themed Birthday Cake

Such a pleasure to deal with lovely clients who have faith in trying something a little different! My lovely client Tash, initially wanted one of my previous circus themed cakes, but with little to no persuasion, I managed to sell her a different idea.

Carnival to me, means rides and lots of ride tickets! The bottom double barrelled tier is completely covered in ride token tickets. These were beautifully designed by Nicole from Pretty and Print and then printed as an edible image.

The top tier is the vintage carousel tier. The beautiful vintage blue, matched with the rich reds and lots of ornate golden touches gave this tier the old vintage look.

The carousel is a hand carved cone and base from styrofoam then covered in the traditional ride and white of these rides. Little circus animals take a ride on the carousel ..... the shaggy, retro looking lion, the trick loving elephant and the impish looking monkey. Tash also wanted to incorporate a clown, so he was the master of the cake and took pride of place out the front!

Everything is handmade on this by me. The carousel top and bottom is the only inedible part. All animals and the clown and moulded from fondant.

From top to bottom this cake is HUGE. It is 24" in height!

The bottom tier is white chocolate raspberry mud cake with white chocolate ganache and the top tier is vanilla sponge cake with white chocolate ganache.

The carousel

The circus animals - the shaggy/retro lion, the tricky elephant and the impish monkey!

The gold embossed name plaque

The master of ceremonies - the clown!

and some colour matched desserts to go with!
Ruffled cookies

Ruffled cupcakes

Sprinkled pretzels

Dipped marshmallow pops

and the matching desserts

Happy Birthday Zayan!

Cowboy Themed Birthday Cake

One of my most loveliest clients came to see me about her son's upcoming birthday party. She had planned a Cowboys theme and just told me to "do what you do"! Love that!

First thing I thought about was cowboy jeans - always wanted to try my hand at that! I wanted the cake to be fun, colourful and just right for the party!

I gave the jean's a worn in look and used a pair of old jeans as my design inspiration. I wanted to include a ranch themed silver buckle also. The top tier was left quite plain with the cowhide look. I then wrapped a fondant paisley bandana (all hand painted) and topped the cake off with a cowboy hat perched on the side as well as a lone cactus on top!I officially love this cake! Everything about it! It screams fun times to me!

The cake is chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache. Everything is completely handmade and edible.

The jeans detail

The hat, buckle and hand painted paisley scarf detail

Happy 2nd Birthday Ashton!

An Ombre Pinkalicious Babushka Birthday Cake & Treats

My lovely client Amy requested a ruffle cake off me a while ago for her daughter Isla's 1st birthday. We went through a few (ok more than a few) different design options, but we kept coming back to the same idea - pink, ruffled ombre!

The bottom tier is a 4 toned ombre ruffled cake with a lot of layers of fondant ruffles. The top tier was given a baby pink lustre finish and I decided to put a few little layers of ruffles at the bottom.

To go along with the beautiful babushka themed invitations and printables that Amy had made by Sarah at Style Me Gorgeous, a set of 3 babushka dolls graced the top of the cake. The babushka design is based off the beautiful printables.

The cake itself is also ombre on the inside! {Please Amy, I need to see photos when it is cut}! 4 layers of ombre pink vanilla cake for both tiers and they are layered and covered in white chocolate ganache.

This weekend, I definitely got my girly on!

The shimmery babushka top tier

Lots of ombre ruffles

Shimmery and ruffled bloom cupcakes to match

Babushka cookies to match also

Happy Birthday Isla!

A Reptile Themed Birthday Cake

My client organised a fabulous reptile themed birthday party for her son's this weekend and wanted an extra special reptile themed cake to go with.

Design was left to me - just to include reptiles and a special request for my red-eyed tree frog!

I wrapped a giant scaly fondant snake around the base of the cake. I handpainted his skin in shades of russet and gold. This was eerily real while making and was a little freaky. I then had a red-back spider climb up the middle tier with some grubs coming out of the dirt. The top tier was all about the red-eyed tree frog!

I handpainted the grass around all the tiers and decided to include 3D reeds for added texture. The reeds are just floral wire. I was going to cover in green fondant, but why really??! Even after all that, I felt it needed something a little extra - so I had cascading leaves over the cake - done!

All components of the cake are handmade and completely edible - except for the wire reeds!The cake is chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache.

Looking down over the creepy reptiles!

The red eyed tree frog

The red back spider

Happy Birthday!

Runway/Catwalk Themed Cake

I recently had the pleasure of working again with Natalie of Events By Nat. She was planning her sister-in-law's upcoming 21st Runway/Catwalk themed birthday. Natalie had seen a cake on Style Unveiled website and wanted a very similar cake with some changes to it. The cake was big, carved and had many different elements! I knew I wanted to give it a go!

So with the black and white theme for the table, the cake took its shape. The bottom tier is embossed all over to look like fabric and has cascading slate grey ruffled (like fabric) flowers down the side. The middle tier is a carved hour glass triple stacked cake. It is covered in little discs to look like sequins. 

The 3rd tier has large pink ruffled blooms all the way around the bottom and the tier is wrapped in white bands with little embossed black fondant buttons running up the front. The top tier is carved styrofoam and covered in the same black little discs and then topped off with the same pink and grey ruffled fabric blooms.The bottom and 3rd tier is chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache. 

The middle tier is white chocolate raspberry mudcake with white chocolate ganache.I usually love to take my own photos at home, but as you can imagine this cake was quite fragile and I needed to deliver it 1 hour away! Hence, the top half was stacked when I arrived. 

I could not get a lot of photos of the cake, but you will see how beautiful it all looked on the table!  Such a gorgeous table that you created Nat! 

The table was featured this morning on Amy Atlas http://blog.amyatlas.com/2012/04/slave-for-fashion-guest-dessert-feature/.

All the cake details

The gorgeous table created by Natalie.

Designer themed cupcakes

Versace head cookies

Happy 21st Birthday Monique!

Hula Girl 1st Birthday Cake

My lovely client Loreta called me about Vittoria's upcoming 1st birthday! Loreta is a graphic designer and knew what she kind of wanted, but left it to me (well kind of ..... she checked in alot!).

We decided on a grass skirt finish to the bottom of the cake and the top tier was completed surrounded in fondant bamboo! The little hula girl on top of completely handmade and her hula skirt matches Vittoria's little skirt. Surrounding the base of the cake and the top is crushed up milk arrowroot biscuits .... now that is some yummy sand! A lei of fondant flowers draped over the bamboo finished off the cake.

The cake is chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache.

Happy 1st Birthday Vittoria!

A Farm Themed 1st Birthday Cake

Laura contacted me about her son's Farm birthday party and she emailed me a copy of the invitation, which had a cute barn and some animals on it. I decided to use this as the design theme for the cake.

I mixed up all the different elements to the cake. The grass was all handpainted onto the sides of the cake and then 2D elements were added, such as the white picket fence and the sunflowers (which were also on the invite). The 3D elements then added that extra pop with the fun details - like the cow and sheep with a birthday cake on top and a ducky in a pond and at the last minute I decided to have a little piggy have his head pop over the fence!

The barn was not in my original design, I did not want it to look too busy. However, when I was putting the cake together, it needed that extra pop of something on top, so I added a 2D standing up barn and then .... ta da .... the cake!  

Loved this cake and the fun"ness" of it.  Laura - was at first speechless, then excited and then speechless and then exclaimed that she did not think she could cut the cake up!

The cake is chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache!All decorations are completely handmade and edible.

The little farm animals

I could almost just cut straight into that teeny tiny cake!

Happy 1st Birthday Manuel!

Hoot the Owl Birthday Cake

This is one of my most requested and popular cake designs!

Rex's mum called me to request this cake as her son is mad for Hoot! She is having a huge celebration tomorrow (100+ people) and Hoot will be taking pride of place at the celebration. However, she wanted this cake only for themselves as she knew she could not cut him up for anyone else!

All handmade and Hoot is carved and covered styrofoam.The cake is carrot cake with white chocolate ganache.

Happy Birthday Rex!

Moulin Rouge Risque Bohemian Parisian themed 40th birthday cake

That was a mouthful! 

The design was left to me after the brief given above. Steff, the birthday gal, had some Toulouse paintings that she had for inspiration, so I decided to handpaint my interpretation of one of his gorgeous oil paintings.

Some can can legs added that something extra to the top of the cake and gave it the risque element!

The cake is white chocolate raspberry mud cake with white chocolate ganache. All decorations are handmade and completely edible. The painting has all been handpainted using edible food colourings.

The cake in its finery!

All the different elements

The hand painting and inpretation of Toulouse

Those fabulous can-can legs!

Happy 40th Birthday Stef!