Just a few pictures of some of my recent cupcakes.
These are my pastel pink daisy and peach carnation cupcakes.
Pink Embossed Flower Cupcakes
Black & Silver Cupcakes for an 18th Birthday Celebration!
Bright Sun Hat and Flower Cupcakes!
Cupcakes for a 70th Birthday Celebration!
Cupcakes for a Golf, Cricket and Soccer 30th Birthday Celebration!
Cupcakes for a Rugby 18th Birthday Celebration!
With all the excitement of the release of the movie Frozen, cake decorators everywhere are inundated with Frozen cake orders. I was excited to do this cake for Taylin’s 2nd birthday as she asked her mom for Olaf on the Beach for her birthday cake. Sandy sent me a picture of a similar cake and I changed the colours and figurine to suit my beach design adding waves on the board splashing up the side of the cake onto the beach where Olaf is in his element wearing his nifty sunglasses. Olaf’s floral garland I made by cutting loads of tiny blossoms, glueing them together and then draping them around Olaf’s neck. I added glittered snowflakes among the waves and on the beach and then used the snowflakes as the decoration for the matching Frozen Cupcakes. The most rewarding moment was when Taylin’s mom Sandy told me that her youngest daughter actually kissed Olaf when she saw the cake arriving.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
Congratulations David on your 21st!
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