July 2014

Ancient Egyptian Cupcakes

I love getting unusual cupcake requests and this has to to be one of my favourites. I was asked to make Ancient Egyptian themed cupcakes for our friend’s children and I was so excited. I chose to make fondant toppers shaping them in to pyramids, pharaohs, hieroglyphics and mummies. I aimed to make them

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Frozen Cupcakes

I don’t really know how to talk to you about my love of Frozen. I could tell you just how many dozens of times I’ve seen it. Go into detail about how it’s one of the most adorable films I’ve seen in ages. Or how all of us 24+ year olds sang along to the soundtrack in the car on my recent road trip in LA. I could even tell you how many times I’ve asked someone if they wanted to build a snowman even though it’s July. However it’s probably in my best interest to just tell you

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90s Sleepover

This Friday night we travelled back in time for a 90s themed sleepover. Lovely Alexia agreed to host a bunch of us girls for a sleepover full of old school food, retro board games, plenty of cheesy music and our favourite childhood films. We began the evening by twisting and clipping our hair back in to the 1998 styles we used to rock and listening to some Britney and Backstreet Boys. Of course we kicked off the evening with a game of Dreamphone and then tucked in to some classic Turkey Dinosaurs, Potato Smileys and My Little Pony Spaghetti Hoops. Then for dessert we had

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Cricket Cake

I can’t say I’ve ever watched a whole (or even half) of a cricket match. It’s definitely not my sport of choice, however, this cake might possibly be one of my new favourites. The cake was for my neighbour’s adorable son Jack who was having a cricket birthday party. I knew I wanted to use my mini hemispherical tins again to create a cricket ball just as I did here with the tennis balls. This time I wanted to give it more of a fun twist that the rest of the kids at the party would think was super cool. Filling it with

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