A Whimsical Bird Christening & 1st Birthday Cake

A lovely return customer came to me a little while ago to arrange a combined Christening and 1st Birthday cake for their newest addition Ivy.

Marisa originally had another one of previous designs in mind for the cake, but we decided to incorporate elements of the invitation to the cake to make it more personal. The design was then left to me and this pretty, whimsical bird inspired cake was the result. Marisa was extremely happy and I am sure that the guests would've been also.

The twiggy branches are the only edible part of the cake. These were used as decoration on the day and we decided to incorporate these into the design. I love the different texture it bought to the cake.

The bottom tier is dark chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache.

The top tier is white chocolate coconut mud cake with white chocolate ganache.

All decorations (except the twigs) are handmade and completely edible.

I love the whimsy and muted colour tones of the cake.

Such a sweet little bird for the top!

Marisa also ordered a dozen "Leo" cupcakes. A number of her guests celebrate their birthdays in August, so she wanted to get them all something a little special! What a caring hostess with the mostess!

God Bless You Always Ivy!

Boys Holy Communion Cake & Cupcake Favours

My most popular boys Holy Communion cake. I have made this cake in soooo many different colour schemes and versions! The simple and elegant lines of the cake, have proven to be a winning formula for this boys religious milestone.

The cake is chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache.

The matching boxed cupcakes are gifts to children at the function. They were made to match the theme of the cake and each child had their own initial on the cupcake.

The cupcakes are white chocolate raspberry mud cakes.

Congratulations on your First Holy Communion Anthony!

A Floral & Dragonfly Christening Cake & Cupcakes

I have had the priviledge of working with this wonderful family on many different occasions and the Christening of their new daughter Isabella was no different.

Margarita came to see me with her inspiration for the cake - her invitations and colour scheme. The invitations were beautiful in peach and ivory tones with a simple cherry blossom motif and it was wrapped in a peach coloured gauze and sealed with a dragonfly.

Margarita also loved the christening cake I made for Noah. So with these two things in mind - I designed this cake to meld the two ideas into cake reality.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this cake and to me it is girly without being sickly girly. So elegant for the occasion and definitely has that WOW factor.

The entire cake is a white chocolate and raspberry mud cake with white chocolate ganache.

Everything is completely handmade and edible. The birdcage is completely handmade also.

The lunch was held at the beautiful Le Montage on the water in Leichhardt.

The cake ..... with a view!

The cage. All the sugar leaves were sculpted together to create a nest for the cage. Inside the cage is a handmade peach sugar peony with some peach and white berries. The berries are my favourite!

Just because I liked this shot! ;)

The cherry blossom tree on the extended middle tier. The cherry blossoms stood out and gave a 3rd dimension to the 2d branches. Each blossom had peach coloured stamens.

The bottom and 1st tier actually look like one - made just so! The bottom tier represented the gauze wrapping of the invitations. I acheived this look by embossing the fondant with the actual gauze. Then a sugar dragonfly to tie off the look. The 1st tier is completely covered in ivory shimmered blossoms.

The view from the back.

Looking through the floral arrangements.

The table centrepieces. The same gauze from the invitations is wrapped around the vases and the dragonfly is centrepiece also.

To match the cake, 50 individually boxed cupcakes were made as bomboniere for the kids. I kept the dragonfly decoration simple and completely edible for the kids. The wings and bubbly dragonfly bodies were all shimmery. All the cupcakes were white chocolate and raspberry mudcakes.

Lined up and ready for kiddie delight!
Congratulations on your Christening day Isabella and May God always Bless You!

Blissfully Sweet does Bandaged Bear Day 2011

March is the official month for the annual Bandaged Bear Appeal.

This year I was very pleased and honoured to be asked to be the exclusive cake supplier for Bandaged Bear Day.

This is such a worthy charity that has touched nearly every one of us in some way. What better way to put a smile on people's faces than with cakes and cookies!

So .... for the day I got busy to whip up some treats.

300+ bear paw print cookies were made (and hand decorated and individually wrapped).

250 vanilla and chocolate cupcakes (all completely nut free) all topped with handmade bear paw print toppers.

All monies raised from the sale of the cakes and cookies went directly to the Bandaged Bear Appeal.

The week of the appeal, our local newspaper the Northern District Times, ran a little story on me! Liam was very proud to see him mummy in the paper and I quickly ran out and got an arm full of copies! Best part of this was that there was even more awareness of this wonderful cause.

The newspaper article. You can read it online here.

Set up in the foyer of Westmead Children's Hospital with beautiful hospital staff selling the treats! The vanilla and chocolate cupcakes The paw print cookies.

and a Bandaged Bear for display (fondant covered styrofoam).

What a wonderful day and one that will stay with me for a while to come.

Happy Bandaged Bear Day to everyone! :o)

Cupcakes Gift Pack for A New Baby Boy

This little 6 pack gift box was to celebrate the birth of a beautiful baby boy.

The glittery boy letters, booties, onesie, bib, glittery pea in a pod and a peek-a-boo little boy.

Congratulations on your beautiful new arrival.

xx

"Fashionista Gal" 40th Cupcakes

These 15 cupcakes were made for a fashion savvy fabulous lady hitting that 40 milestone.

Each topper represents something she loves ... handbags, flowers, Chanel, Manolos, Moet, Couture makeup and bling.

A Tiffany inspired bracelet, make-up brush, Chanel lipstick and rose

Manolos and handbag

Chanel purse and Louis Vuitton tote bag

as you indeed are ....... fabulous

Happy 40th Birthday Natasha.

:)

Giftpack set of cakes for School Trivia Night

This set of cupcakes were a silent auction prize at the Our Lady of Fatima trivia night on Saturday.

the drawing, school hat, school logo, teacher's apple and graduation hat.

Happy bidding!

Christening Day Teddy Bear Cupcake Gift Boxes

40 mini teddy bears sitting on top of beautiful little white chocolate mudcakes.

These little gift boxes were ordered to match the theme of the Christening and to be beautiful little take away gifts for the kids!

I can hear it now .... me, me, me!

Sitting at the restaurant waiting for hungry little eyes!

Run teddies run!!

Happy Christening Day Christian.

God Bless You.

Pokemon Cupcakes

When I was asked to make Pokemon cupcakes I thought "what the....". No idea what or who Pokemons are.

Thank God for Google and Nintendo !!!

These are the cupcake version and I think the birthday boy should be quite happy!

Ready for battle ... do they battle??

Pikachu.

Now, thanks to Google these little Pokemon's names are Snorlax, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Pipplup & Turtwig. Cannot find the horsehead's name, but from the picture I got he looked good to model!

Have a great Pokemon birthday!

Boys & Girls Cupcake Gift Pack

Here is a little gift pack of cupcakes to give any little girl or boy a huge big grin!

Going for a visit and don't know what to bring .... make it a blissfully sweet little treat!

Guaranteed smiles and lots of vanilla mess!

the boys stuff

the princessy girls stuff

itty bitty little princess castle

1 minute of smiles

10 seconds of eating the toppers

2 minutes of eating the rest

...... PRICELESS!!