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!

Valentine’s Day Cake

Feb15

Cake with Valentine's Figurine

This was the delightful Valentine’s Day Cake I made during a class recently.  The class was presented by Pat Borsato of Cakes By Pat and it was a pleasure to work with Pat and complete this cute Valentine Figurine on her royal iced, ruffled and heart embossed Valentine Cake.  Who could not fall in love with this delightful figurine sitting prettily on her cake?  Thanks Pat for sharing your knowledge so freely and in such a fun class!Valentine's Day Cake1 Valentine's Day Cake2

Cyclist Cake for Veronica

Feb9

Sugar Cyclist Figurine & Bicycle Cake

It is always inspiring for me when a client orders a cake for a friend with such passionate and meaningful intentions and it makes me want to pull out all the stops to make sure that the cake portrays the message and intent in the best possible way.  This was the case when Andrea ordered this cake for her friend, Veronica, who she told me was not only a fantastic cyclist but also a strong and determined woman.

Andrea’s brief to me was that Veronica had to be on her cake along with her yellow bike and she had to have pink highlights!  Thanks to photos Andrea sent me and a couple of google tutorials I managed to make a small sugar replica of Veronica’s bike and add it proudly to her alongside her sugar figurine.  I added some chocolate ‘rocks’ for a rustic feel around the base of the tree stump that the bike is resting against and a message of good luck to Veronica from Andrea – another google learned technique of pulling printed text off of white paper using washi tape.  Thank you Andrea for your order and for once again sharing your inpiring and thoughtful wishes through sugar!

Sugar Cyclist Figurine & Bicycle Cake Sugar Cyclist Figurine & Bicycle Cake

Birthday Cake for Michelle & Hayley

Feb7

Birthday Cake for a LadyMichelle and Hayley celebrated their birthdays in the same month and we held a combined party for them.  I made a cake with 3 gift boxes, one a pastel blue and light peach ribboned gift box and the other 2 with a figurine each for Michelle and Hayley.

I was inspired by Michelle’s love of blue to make her a tiny “Michelle” figurine in a pretty blue dress on a pale pink gift box.  I added lace, made using Crystal Lace to the figurine’s petticoat and I included a chilren’s book for the days when Michelle taught her 4 year olds at creche.  The little figurine has the same peaceful smile that Michelle always shows us!

Birthday Cake for a Lady

Hayley has a passion for colour which she uses with skillful abandon in our scrapbooking classes so I was inspired to do this colourful owl for her.  I used my favourite shade of blue and different flower and heart cutters to complete the sassy owl.  The gift box I covered in a warm yellow, dusted with tangerine. She spent the morning batting her pretty eyelashes at us and watched both Michelle and Hayley open all their presents!

Owl Sugar Figurine

 

Grandpa Figurine!

Jan25

Granddad Sugar Art FigurineI am posting this Grandpa Figurine today especially to congratulate the awesome grandpa that I made this figurine for.  On Friday he became a great grandfather when his daughter gave birth to twins, a baby boy and a baby girl.  Not only did this young grandpa celebrate a wonderful birthday celebration last year with his family and friends but he now has an even bigger family with this exciting news!

When Jan, his daughter, ordered this cake for him she wanted his love of clock making, wood work and love of everything mechanical to be portrayed on the cake as well as him sitting in his workshop.  The fondant of the cake I made to look like planks of wood  and I added the different colour sugar cogs and tools to show his passions in life.  Once again it was a pleasure to be part of such a wonderful and well-loved grandpa’s birthday celebration.

Granddad Sugar Art Figurine

Congratulations on becoming a Great Grandfather to a beautiful baby boy and girl!