February 2016

Star Wars Cake

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Guys, I’m a little bit obsessed with this cake. If it wasn’t for the cutest little boy turning 7, I don’t think I would have parted with it. I was so over excited that the brief was Star Wars. I loved the new movie and have been wanting to make a mega Star Wars themed cake ever since. You can see my rough sketch for the cake below. It included his favourite characters BB8 and Chewbacca and, of course, the Millennium Falcon. It also has a Kylo Ren, whose light sabre is also the birthday candle AND (my favourite part) the Death Star, which is also a mini piñata cake. The cake itself is

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Happy 18th Birthday Sabrina

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You’d think being asked to put someone’s whole life on a cake would be mega challenging, but I loved making this cake for the lovely Sabrina who turned 18 this week. I’ve been scheming with Sabrina’s Mum, Donna, about this cake for a while. She wanted the cake to tell the story of her life and represent all the people and things she loves. The three tier cake was covered in edible photos of her family, closest friends and the cutest old school photo I’ve ever seen. I made lots of sugar decorations including

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Favourite Things Drip Cake

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My Grandpa would be pestering me to get this blog post up faster than I am, featuring lots of photos of him of course, but he’s too busy playing with his new Apple Watch…he turned 87 today and is one of the coolest people I know. For his birthday cake I thought I would do him a special coconut (his favourite flavour) drip cake topped with some of his favourite things. I made a

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Valentine’s Day Afternoon Tea

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Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! I’m having the best day so far. I threw a Valentine’s Afternoon Tea for the ones I love. We served an array of Valentines treats I made including Vanilla heart biscuits, mini Oreo cupcakes, Love Heart Cupcakes and Raspberry Macarons. We also had

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