Royal Wedding Cupcakes!

Today is the day that Prince William and Catherine Middleton will wed. I am not a huge royal fan, but have enjoyed the lead up to their big day and will certainly be watching all of the coverage tonight. The two main things I am interested in is the dress and the cake.

On a side note, Prince William and I share the same birthday, I am a few years older though :)

Anyway, my mum is having a high tea celebration at her work this afternoon, so I made some cupcakes for her to take along. I came across some wonderful printable cupcake toppers on the TomKat Studio blog a few days ago and knew that they would be perfect.

The cupcakes are vanilla sponge cake with vanilla buttercream swirls. The red and navy together looked fabulous.

I purchased a scalloped craft punch to cut the toppers out with, and they were perfect. The little satin bow finished the toppers off nicely.

 

What will you be doing tonight when the ceremony is taking place? Will you be wearing a tiara and ballgown while watching? If only I knew where my tiara was......

Enjoy :)

Happy Easter!

Wishing all of my fellow bloggers and their families a very happy easter. Enjoy the time with your loved ones, hope the easter bunny is good to you all :)

 {  Easter Enchanted Tree Cake made by me for our family dinner }

Easter Vanilla Sugar Cookies.

Today I baked some easter treats, vanilla sugar cookies for my niece's who will be away for Easter, so not joining us for dinner on Easter Sunday.

Cute little Easter bunnies and chickens were the cutters I chose.

Pink and yellow seemed to be a good colour choice, prettied up with cute little sugar flowers and fluffy bunny tails.

Yesterday Lachlan and I spent most of the day making paper chains, Easter banners and Easter colouring in pictures to decorate our house in readiness for the Easter weekend. I purchased the gorgeous Easter printables set from Style Me Gorgeous. 

 

The printable set also included cute chocolate wrappers to match. I put together this little gift for Lachlan's teacher.

Enjoy the days leading up to Easter, I will be making a special Easter themed cake for our family, so will be back with some details on this along with a wedding cake and birthday cake for Easter Saturday!

A Pretty Pink Fairy Cake for Daina.

This week I only had one cake to complete, which made me feel a little lost after my huge week last week! Daina was turning 7 and requested a cake that was pink and had a fairy on top surrounded by flowers and butterflies.

The cake was deep, dark chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The fairy was hand made from modelling paste.

The butterflies, flowers and name plaque finished the cake off nicely.

Happy 7th birthday Daina :)

Cakes, Cakes and More Cake......

I have just finished the busiest 6 days ever in my kitchen. I had 9 cake orders to complete, along with Oliver's Birthday and his cakes for playgroup and preschool. So a total of 12 cakes, wow was that a challenge but I am happy to say that I survived and all cakes were delivered on time!

No 1: Lady Bug Cake for Azalia's 1st Birthday, moist butter cake with white chocolate ganache and fondant covering.

No 2: Darth Vadar Cake for Allan's 40th Birthday, cherry ripe mudcake with dark chocolate ganache and fondant covering. This cake was carved from 2 x 8 inch round cakes with a styrofoam base.

No 3: 70th Birthday cake, red velvet cake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering.

No 4: Super Mario Bros Themed Cupcakes, deep dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and hand made fondant toppers.

 

No 5: 60th Birthday Exploding Present Cake, orange and poppyseed cake with buttercream filling and fondant covering, for a Cronulla Sharks Rugby League fan.

 

No 6: 30th Birthday "Snap On" Tool Box Cake, milk chocolate mudcake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The board was covered to look like timber floorboards and the tools were hand modelled from modelling paste.

No 7: Chocolate Overload Cake for Eamyn's 8th Birthday, a 6 inch version of the chocolate overload cake. Dark chocolate mudcake with dark chocolate ganache coating, kit kat border and malteser topping.

No 8: Pam's Birthday Cake, a simple 6 inch dark chocolate mudcake with dark chocolate ganache covering and fondant butterflies and flowers.

No 9: Robyn's Birthday Cake, a simple 6 inch dark chocolate mudcake with dark chocolate ganache covering and fondant butterflies.

 

  

No 10: Oliver's Formula 1 Racing Car Birthday Cake, to share with his playgroup friends. Super easy chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The cake was carved from an 8 inch square cake.

No 11: Oliver's Plane Birthday Cake, to share with his preschool friends. Super easy chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The cake was also carved from an 8 inch square cake.

No 12: Oliver's Party Birthday Cake.

Hopefully you have stayed with me and made it all the way to the here! I have an easy week this week, only one cake to make, but am busy with end of term Athletics Carnival and Easter festivities at Lachlan's school.

Enjoy the rest of the week and weekend.

Oliver's Emergency Services 5th Birthday Party !

{ Oliver and Lachlan with the sign }

It was party day on Saturday, Oliver turned 5 and we celebrated with family and friends. The theme for the party was "Emergency Services". We had a fabulous sign out the front so all the guests knew where to go for the party.

 

{ The party table }

The weather was spectacular, so the party was held outside. A jumping castle provided hours of fun for the guests, with them finding little time to enjoy all of the goodies on the party table!

{ Some of the sweet treats }

The table consisted of smarties, mixed lollies, fruit sticks, chocolate cake pops, chocolate bars and vanilla cupcakes, along with the birthday cake.

{ The Cake }

The cake was deep, dark chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The police car, ambulance, fire engine and buring building were hand modelled from modelling paste.

 { The emergency service vehicles and burning building }

The colour theme of red, white and blue was a great one to use, with balloons and take home goodie bags fitting in perfectly.

 { The party fun }

The take home goodie bags consisted of lollies, sherbert sticks, a police whistle, bouncy ball and fire engine cookie.

 { The take home goodie bags }

 

{ Fire engine cookies }

Oliver had a wonderful afternoon, celebrating with all of his favourite people.

After a mammoth weekend of partying and cakes, I am enjoying a little rest this week, although we are busy with end of term events at school! I have lot's of cake photo's to share with you all over the coming days.

Enjoy your week :)