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.

Claire's 1st Birthday Party.

Yesterday we celebrated the 1st Birthday of our little girl Claire. (Read more about the preparations here and here) I have been planning her party since she was about 4 months old, when I purchased her party outfit!

Here are the photo's from her special day!

{ The Candy and Dessert Table }

{ The invitations }

 

{ The Ruffle Birthday Cake ( custom topper Enchanted Belles) }

 

{ Inside the Birthday Cake - Milk Chocolate and Caramel Layered mudcake)

 

{ Vanilla Ruffle Cupcakes }

 

 

{ Rocky Road }

{ Pink Smartie Cookies }

{ A selection of goodies on the gorgeous Sambellina party ware }

{ Along with pink candy the girl's were given a little pot of fairy dust }

{ The boy's party boxes }

{ Pink Smarties }

{ ABC Cups from My Little Jedi }

{ Claire's Initial greeted guests at the front door }

{ The Birthday Girl }

If you have made it all the way down to here, thankyou!

The party was a great success and this was partly due to the fabulous suppliers who provided the following:

Sharnel Dollar Designs : tulle pom pom's, round candy jars, party bags, fairy dust, square platters and pink smarties.

Sambellina : party ware and gift tags - Kate was wonderful and posted these directly to me as they were only being shipped to suppliers this week. Thankyou :)

Scissors Paper Rock Designs : invitations, menu labels and party bag labels.

Row's Pottery Shed : custom made cake stand.

Enchanted Belle's :  custom cake topper.

My Little Jedi : divine twine and ABC cups.

Stitcheroos : Birthday outfit.

The dessert table goodies were all made by me. The menu consisted of caramel and chocolate cake balls, vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, pink smartie cookies, rocky road, pink smarties, pink mushrooms and marshmallows as well as the birthday cake. The initial sign and table tu-tu were make by me too.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about Claire's 1st Birthday, it was a joy to create this for our beautiful little girl.

Happy Birthday sweet girl xxx

Mrs KT :)

Our Little Princess is Turning One - Part 1 - The Invitations

I can't believe how quickly the past 12 months has flown by! Our little princess, Claire, is turning 1 in 10 days. This of course means that I am in the thick of the party planning. The theme for her special day is pink, of course, with lots of tulle and all things pretty.

Her invitations have been designed and made by the lovely and talented Claire from Scissors Paper Rock Designs. Claire made Lachlan's Lego Invitations and menu labels.

The brief I gave her was pink, princess and tulle. Here is the result.

We were so pleased with the finished invitations. They were exactly what we had imagined, the guests have all commented how wonderful they are.

I spent today fluffing tulle pom poms, which I purchased from Sharnel Dollar Designs. These too are even prettier in real life. I can't wait to put all the details together on the day.

Mrs KT :)

Sneek Peek : Claire's 1st Birthday

It is still a couple of months away, but things are coming along nicely for Claire's 1st birthday celebration. As mentioned in this post, it will be a pink, white and mauve affair, with lots of ruffles! I have chosen her cake:

{Image from here}

How could I go past the famous Martha Stewart Ruffle Tower Cake! I just hope I can do it justice. Once the cake was decided on the next thing was what to put on the top? I thought about making something out of modelling paste, but it just didn't seem right, so I checked out Etsy and Madeit to see what I could find. A clothespin doll topper was my choice.

I was lucky enough to come across a talented lady on Madeit, Sarah of Enchanted Belles, who managed to create exactly what I visioned. As I have purchased Claire's birthday outfit, Sarah made the dollie topper an outfit to match.

What do you think? Isn't she gorgeous! I think she will be the perfect finishing touch to the cake. Be sure to check out Sarah's blog, Enchanted Belles, and see the gorgeous wedding cake toppers, dollies and personalised door plaques.


Thankyou Sarah for creating this for Claire :)

Oh and another thing, I have reached 20 followers, HOORAY, thankyou all for supporting my little blog, I really appreciate it.


Enjoy your weekend.


Mrs KT :)