Cake of appreciations

This was a thank you cake from a doctor to his nurses, they are in IVF unit in Royal Women Hospital. I thought IVF always have to do with babies so created a cake with a lady holding a new born baby.

Daisy represents new life and brighter days. For some couples that cannot conceive naturally, IVF is a great opportunity for them to have their own children.

I wanted the cake to be simple and elegant so I used simple decorations and minimal colour combinations. Hope everyone enjoyed the cake.

Christening cake

This is a christening cake for little girl. Her lovely grandma wanted to have a book cake with baby booties. The cake was mud cake covered with dark chocolate ganache and decorated in fondant.

Pink booties in fondant decorated with pink ribbon and flowers.

The baby, giraffe and elephant are fondant.

Ben10 & Cars Cupcakes

In my childhood, Mickey mouse and Donald duck were the favourite cartoon characters. Now, Ben10 is one of the favourite. A young boy with special powers to become a superhero and save the world...dream of every boys. These cupcakes were for a 6 years old boy who loves Ben10. With a help from my son, I made 3 different Ben10 characters. Sam told me which colours were the closest to the characters and small details like the spots and horns. Sometimes, Sam was a great helper...he has the eyes of details and he fulls of imaginations. Thanks Babe...

The cupcakes were chocolate cakes with fondant decorations.

I also mixed the Ben10 characters with somethings more gentle and cute. I made cars, buses and trucks in cute version which are more suitable for younger boys and girls guests. Sparkling eyes and big smiles...those are the most favourite characters that we love to see in children.

Battle of the sexes

These were cupcakes that I made for 2010 Election day cake stall for the kinder and the school. This year election was battle of the sexes...battle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot (the 2 strongest party). I have no preference so I thought making cupcakes that have 2 different sexes would be fun.

cupcakes of boys and girls, male and female elephants, male and female pigs and the last ones were high heels cupcakes vs tie cupcakes. Now I have my preference, I really like the female elephant and pig because they have long and curly eyelash that make them look really cute and sweet. But still not too sure which party should win...:-) Do you have your choice yet?

My shoes collections

I just can't get enough with shoes...since I made the first shoe couple months ago, I get addicted. This time I made much smaller shoes so they can go into my collection shelf. Firstly, I cut out a cardboard template that I've drawn. Then roll out the black fondant to about 3mm thick , with sharp knife trace the template later cut them out. Put them aside. roll out 2 small balls for the heels then shape them. Using water, glue the heels onto the cut out shoes' bases. Turn the shoes around and shape the heel, let them dry for few minutes. Prepare your shoes design by cutting out any shape, colour and pattern that you like.

Making shoes are great fun and they look great as decorations on cupcakes and as edible collections.

Hubby's birthday

It had already been 1 month since hubby's birthday and now I have time to write on my blog. This year's winter is horrible...full of illnesses...my family (the kids and me) get sick all the time. It's like playing soccer
where you keep passing the ball around and around and never stop. Around hubby's birthday, Audrey and Sam got really sick so we didn't really celebrate. We just had simple 'seafood dinner' (hubby's favourite)...I made him some cookies bouquet since he didn't feel like having cake. With cookies, they have longer shelf life so we can keep them until everyone gets better.

For these cookies, I used simple butter cookies with orange flavour and decorated with fondant. Flowers are quite feminine so I used more masculine colour by combining dark violet with light violet and white. Cookies bouquet makes a really good birthday gift or even a valentine's gift.

I felt really bad not making hubby a birthday cake so on the weekend folowing his birthday, I made him his favourite mango cake. I used a cake recipe from the book that my mum bought me and iced the cake with chopped fresh mango and whipped cream. The top layer, I used sliced fresh mango and pour mango jelly on top. My husband loved the mango and the whipped cream but he thought the cake was a bit too dense. I'm not happy with the cake as well but love the whipped cream. It was my first time using fresh cream and whipped it. The secret of beautiful whipped cream is keep on whipping :-)

Simple lunch box idea

My goodness...I ran out of idea for my children lunch's boxes. With this lunch box, I used wholemeal bread, mini frankfurt, cheese, butter, lingon jam, baking paper and gift ribbon. I boiled the mini frankfurt, trimmed all the crust from the bread then spread butter, lingon berry jam finally assembled the bread into a mini sausage roll/ hot dog. :-) simple and easy and the most important my children loved them...hope I'll have a better idea next time...