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Paige’s Palette

Sep8
Cake with paint brushes and colour splashes

Happy Birthday Paige

It was brilliant to be able to celebrate Paige’s birthday with her on Tuesday and to be able to make her birthday cake.  Paige is an extremely talented girl and one of her talents is her art.  I drew inspiration from this talent of hers and made her an artist’s cake.  Again google gave me an awesome idea when I saw a cake design from Kit Box with paint brushes and splashes of paint .  I used my cupcake cake pan Michelle gave me for my birthday and baked a vanilla cake which I cut into 3 and iced with strawberry flavoured icing – just because Teigh and Paige love this flavour.  I made a paint palette and 3 paint brushes and then splashes of paint colour out of coloured sugar paste.  I popped the brushes in and then placed the paint splashes and wired paint splashes into the cake and the result was one even Leonardo would have been proud of.  Happy Birthday Paige to you and again delighted to be able to know you and make your cake for you.

Happy Birthday Shaunagh

Aug21
Rottweiller Birthday Cake

KaisersCraft!

When it came to making a cake for Shaunagh I drew inspiration from the stories of her naughty puppy Kaiser. Kaiser has chewed his way through a number of unusual objects and I put these on the cake: 3 remotes, apples, persian carpet, books, photos.  He also managed to take a bit out of Shaunagh’s tortoise.  If I had included all the items Kaiser has made his way through though the cake might have collapsed!  So here’s to you Shaunagh and your delightfully naughty Kaiser.

Wings To Fly

Aug2
Vanilla Cupcakes with Orange Butterflies

Edible Grace!

Thought I would put my butterfly cupcakes up as a new post today.  Yes I love butterflies but they are also symbolic of how quickly my new business has got going and how grateful I am to all my family and friends who have given me the courage to fly with my new venture. 

Winter Carnival Market at Second Cup

Jul29

Minty Chocolate Cupcakes

This market is aptly named with the weather turning really chilly today, but don’t be afraid to venture out into the fresh air tomorrow and visit the market.

  • Saturday 30th July
  • 10am  – 4pm
  • Weltevreden Farm, 2nd Cup Coffee Shop
  • John Vorster Drive, Weltevreden.

I have made delicous cupcakes including, Milo, Mint Choc, Choc Orange, Top Deck, Vanilla, Strawberries & Cream, Choc Orange Aero, Cappucino, Vanilla Coffee Nut, Red Velvet, Apple  and more.  Look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

Going Potty!

Jul25

 

Cupcakes with fondant pot decoration

Gourmet Gadgets Cupcake

My friend Ivana celebrated her birthday on Thursday and I wanted to make cupcakes for her.  She has a passion for cooking and anything to do with food and she sells in the Tool Shop the most brilliant Staub cooking pots in the most delicious colours.  No excuse for not wanting to cook every night with these gorgeous pots.  Here is one of the cupcakes photographed with the cutest of the Staub pots.   I made little pots for the top of the cupcakes in the colours of  some of the Staub pots.

 

Cupcakes with fondant pots

Going Potty!

 

 

Chinese Please

Jul24
Chinese Themed Cupcakes

China here we come!

These cupcakes were inspired by a farewell party for a couple going on holiday to China.  I thought these cupcakes would capture the mood of a Chinese holiday perfectly.  Again I did some google research for ideas and made these cute Chinese lanterns and fans. 

 

Chinese Themed Cupcakes

Oodles of Noodles

My son had the brilliant idea of a bowl of noodles and chopsticks so I made little black bowls of noodles and then iced the rest of the cupcakes to make them look like a big bowlsof noodles.  I used toothpicks for the chopsticks and cut them in half for the chopsticks on the small bowls.