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Tennis Cake for Byron’s 21st!

Apr6

Tennis Figurine on Tennis Ball CakeByron's Tennis Cake2

It has been an exciting year for 21st birthdays and Byron’s Tennis Cake was a 21st birthday cake I created earlier this year for his celebration with his family.  I have know Byron for a few years now and it was great to be able to make a small sugar figurine and try and capture some of his characteristics. Of course the easy ones were his dark good looks, thick curly dark hair and 5 O’Clock shadow typical of all students these days!  Wendy, his mom, asked me to do a tennis themed cake as this is one of Byron’s incredible talents and passions in life.  I placed the Byron sugar figurine sitting on a delicious chocolate tennis ball cake which I covered in a mix of fondant and modelling chocolate and embossed to create a tennis ball texture.  I also created the line and then painted it with white edible paint and added small moulded tennis racquets and grass to finish off the cake.  It was such fun making this cake Byron and congratulations on your 21st birthday and you can be proud of how you have taken your talents and passions into your varsity life and continued to be an inspiration to and admired by all those who meet you.

Tennis Figurine on Tennis Ball Cake

 

Pirate-Tess Cake!

Mar20
Pirate-Tess Cake

Pirate-Tess Cake

Pirate-Tess Cake

Pirate-Tess Cake

Pirate-Tess is one of my favourite figurines and I made her during one of Vicci Clemitson-Martin’s classes last year.  It was a whole new experience to work with such exquisite quality sugar paste from Italy for the first time and to see the difference in the quality of the figurine that could be produced. A chef always chooses the finest ingredients and we certainly had one fine ingredient in this sugar paste we used! Pirate-Tess not only turned out to be a funky and cheeky pirate in her black boots and embossed bodice but also beautiful with her hair, skirt & flirty eyelashes being kissed by the sea breeze on her wooden deck cake.

Pirate-Tess Cake

Kissed By The Breeze!

I completed my cake with a ruffled red flower with a beaded golden centre, an edible rice paper treasure map and soft blue waves teasing the sides of the deck looking for a better look at the sexy Pirate-Tess.

Pirate-Tess Cake

Sugared-Treasure!

A gold satin roped cord was a perfect finish to the cake board and tiny pearls and white beads added to the effect of the waves to allow Pirate-Tess to stand tall and proud on her sugared deck!

Pirate-Tess Sugar Figurine

Pirate-Tess Sugar Figurine

Cupcakes2Delite gets Physical!

Mar20

Gym CupcakesGym Cupcakes

It was great fun for Cupcakes2Delite to get physical again and I made these cupcakes for a female gym enthusiast this time!  Instead of bulging biceps and perky pectorals I made sugar paste gym bags, gym towels,weights, hand weights, kettle bells, bosu balls, exercise balls and skipping ropes. I used the lime green, turquoise and black to co-ordinate the colours for Hayley’s cupcakes and included these fun toppers as she is passionate about her exercise. Thanks Brian for this order and delighted that these cupcakes were a part of the family birthday celebrations!

Motorbike Helmet Cake for David’s 21st!

Mar8

Motorbike Helmet Cake

David was the first friend of Teigh to turn 21 and it was wonderful  for our family to celebrate his birthday with him and his family and to make his special birthday cake for him.  Julieta, his mom, sent me brilliant pictures of his off-road Fox helmet and she asked me to do a cake that showed David’s passion for off-road biking.  I made a cake, carved it into the shape of the helmet and with Teigh’s guidance it resembled the Fox helmet.  Thanks to Pat’s expertise fondant skills, the cake was beautifully and flawlessly covered before I added the printed rice paper goggles and logos, red sugar paste strap and sugar paste dots. Finally I added chocolate rocks to the base of the board and washi taped the edge for a complete finished look.  David was surprised by his mom’s order of this cake and everyone loved it but I have to say the hi-light of the day for me was when Julieta came to cut the cake and tried to lift the goggles off the cake thinking that they were real goggles, a real compliment to the cake!

Motorbike Helmet CakeMotorbike Helmet Cake

Motorbike Helmet Cake

Congratulations David on your 21st!

 

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

Mar7

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

Trinityhouse Primary School, Randpark Ridge celebrated World Literacy Day in awesome style last year. The teachers and children dressed up as literary characters from their favourite books and Karin ordered cupcakes to celebrate the day in sweet style with the staff members.  There was great excitement in the school on the day and even more excitement as I delivered the cupcakes with their literary inspired sugar works.  For the miniature books I googled children’s book covers and had them printed in miniature onto edible rice paper and put them on the tiny sugar paste books I had created in bright colours.

World Literacy Day CupcakesThe Cat in The Hat has to be many a childhood favourite and with the bright red book covers and bright red and white hats they added quirky colour to the cupcake display.  Benjamin Bunny didn’t quite hop on his cupcake but he looked cute in his little blue sugar pants.

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

The Cat in The Hat!

Alice in Wonderland has to be a favourite literary theme and so easy recognizable with the mad-hatter hats, Cheshire Cat, stop watches and Drink Me bottles.

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

Alice in Wonderland!

A A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh is a treasured book on many a shelf and I made the colourful characters, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger as well as Pooh’s honey jar.  I loved this opportunity to make these cupcakes for such a wonderful occasion so thank you Karin for trusting me with your order.

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

Winnie The Pooh

World Literacy Day Cupcakes

Giant Cupcake Cake for Nicola!

Mar6

 Giant Cupcake Cake in Blue & Lime

Thanks Vee of your order for Nicola’s birthday cake for the third year running.  It was fun to do this Giant Cupcake Cake in pastel blue and shades of lime green for her.  I have baked this cake before but decided on a chocolate coated ‘cupcake wrapper’ base for a change.  Thanks to an awesome tutorial it was really easy and not only effective on the cake but also tasty.  I added a swirl of vanilla cream cheese icing before decorating the cake with daisies in shades of lime and Crystal Lace butterflies.  I was inspired by the blue cupcake cases with their dainty white polka dots to add white gel polka dots to the chocolate casing.

The cupcakes I made with a matching vanilla icing, lime daisies and lime green pearls.  I added the cake to an embossed cake board with a washi taped edge in the matching colours.  Cake turned out to be not only my favourite four letter word but Nicola’s too as she was presented with her birthday cake!

Giant Cupcake Cake in Blue and Lime

Giant Cupcake Cake in Blue and Lime

Giant Cupcake Cake goes Dotty!