August Long Weekend

A gold and coral cake for Liuna Station.

Sweet sixteen cake with purple and lots of bling (pictured below with stand)

80th Birthday garden cake with hand painting

Baby shower in soft colours with a bit of bling and a big fanfare!

Four Celebrations and a Wedding

Birthday cakes for men always pose a problem, we want to make them exciting and creative, but sometimes it`s not as easy as it sounds!  This time we were asked to make a country/guitar themed cake for an out door birthday party.  We came up with this guitar cake which we are told was a huge hit at the party. 

For an intimate wedding often not very much cake is required but it's still fun to have a cake that fulfills all the criteria for an elegant and stylish wedding cake that fits in with the theme of the day.  This bride chose blush and gold for this timeless cake and we added the couples initials "S" and a little pink heart which appeared on their wedding invitation. 

We don't often make cakes with a Disney theme (for copyright reasons which we have blogged about in the past).  What we are allowed to do is to take ready made copyrighted items and put them onto a matching cake.  Above is an example of that.  Dressed up with dots and bows, this makes such a cute cake for a little girl or even a grown up princess!

A hand painted cake for Mother's Day.  Imagine this Mom's surprise when she walked in to our tea room on Mother's Day to find this cake waiting for her along with a delicious high tea.

Miniature cakes are often ideal for a small celebration of less than 4 people, or something at the last minute when there isn't time to order a fully custom designed cake.  This little cake was made for a little boys first birthday when he was going to be dressed as a strawberry for a photo shoot because his favourite food is strawberries!

Birthdays

A giant cupcake to wish Sarah a happy birthday.  The client chose a pink velvet cake with a blackberry buttercream for the top.  We finished the cake with little sugar flowers and one great big cherry on top!

Stephanie, the birthday girl, loves shabby chic, lots of pink and girly things and of course flowers.  We designed this pretty pink cake with a garden feel to match the garden party that she was having with her friends.  Of course a pale pink vanilla cake inside with a raspberry buttercream made this cake as delicious as it was pretty.

Retro Feel Anniversary Cake

This was a pink vanilla cake inside and on the outside the fondant was piped with royal icing to the specifications of the client which was the original wedding cake 25 years ago!  We love to do this kind of cake and for anniversaries the original cake is a wonderful design clue for us.  The top of the cake was decorated with pink roses and had a hand painted background.

Girlie Shoe Cake

Our client asked us for something cute and pretty for a girls sweet 16.  We dreamed up this little design both with hand painted and sugar flowers and a sugar shoe.

A very sweet 16!

Purple Blossoms - Copetown Woods Golf and Country Club

A huge wedding cake with a spring theme.  Hand painted vines with purple blossoms and little yellow accents made this cake feel like springtime.

Copetown Woods Golf Course was beautiful and when we delivered the cake there was sunshine everywhere.

There was a surprise of two initials that we didn't know had to go on the cake.  We managed to get them off but it is worth mentioning that all toppers must be brought to us at least one week before the date of the wedding so that we can secure them on to cake, it's not good leaving this to chance in case they didn't fit (which was the case here).

We also removed the silver board from the bottom of the cake and placed it on a Lou Hanson hand made cake stand.

Tinkerbell Birthday Cake

We are not allowed to make licensed character cakes, but if you are familiar with our work you will know that we do often incorporate ready made licensed figurines into our cakes.  Here is a great example of that. 

We hand painted the cake with vines and rosebuds, then we added twinkle to Tinkerbell's wings as well ass assorted sugar flowers and glittered butterflies.

Garden Bridal Shower - Hamilton

 I love hand painted cakes, and I like to overlay them with three dimensional sugar flowers for extra 'fluff' as my friends call it.  I just can't help myself.

This one tiered version of a cake I've done in three tiers and two tiers in the past was for a bridal shower.

Hand Painted Cake -

Another that was picked up by the bride and her bridesmaids.  this cake was hand painted with edible paints before being overlaid with sugar flowers.

Christening Cake For Victoria

Sometimes our clients call with a specific request and know exactly what they want, other times, they give us a rough outline of the colours and the type of event and leave the rest to us.

Since I love to paint on cakes, I chose this tiny rosebud pattern "Laura Ashley" style with tiny pink and white rosebuds to match.  Regrettably not very well photographed, but it's the only one we've got!

Hand Painted Lilies and Embroidery - Geraldos at La Salle Park

This hand painted ivory cake was covered in small dots and pearls to mimic the embroidery on the wedding gown. Each tier was a different cake flavour starting with Cherry Amaretto, followed by Indian Spice and Lemon.