{I'd rather be Fishing} 60th Birthday Cake!

Last week I had to come up with a cake for my Uncle's 60th Birthday, it was a joint celebration with another Uncle's Father-in-law...confused?  Both men enjoy fishing so I was asked to create something around that, at first I was going to do a boat... but I thought that was a bit too easy, so hello 3D carved fish cake!

I really need to invest in an airbrush as this seemed to take forever to paint by hand, the fins and tail I made last so I could shape them once I attached them to the cake.

The board I also covered with icing, added the woodgrain detail and painted over some dark brown food colouring then trimmed it with brown satin ribbon.  I made this the day before so it had plenty of time to dry out before adding the cake.

Inside was delicious chocolate mud cake, the little birthday note is also icing and written on with an edible pen.

This was delivered to a private party in Warwick on Saturday afternoon,

"Happy 60th Birthday Big Al & Jim!"  I hope you enjoyed cleaning this one up ;)

{Elephant} First Birthday Cake

This cute little boys 'elephant first birthday cake' I created for last weekend was a copy of a 'Pink Cake Box' design, If you follow me on 'pinterest' you will  notice I have pinned  a few amazing  PCB cakes so I was quite excited when I was asked to make this one!

This seemingly simple design actually took a very long time to put together! The elephant was made over a couple of days so each piece had sufficient drying time, I don't have the tool for cutting strips so a little extra time went into measuring out the three different sizes and each one of those balls...rolled by hand! but this {for me} is the most fun...making the decorations and putting it all together :) I must admit it is much more satisfying when it is your own unique design,  nevertheless I was very happy with how this one turned out.

Inside both cakes....chocolate mud

I delivered this one to a private residence in Warwick where I found out it would be taking another trip to the Sunshine Coast! 

'Happy 1st Birthday Will!'

and Thank you Nathan & Kristie I hope your party went well!

Mr & Mrs Keleher {Middle Ridge Wedding Cake}

Last weekend saw some beautiful spring weather across the Darling Downs, I was lucky enough to be out enjoying it...even if it was working!  I love being involved in a couples wedding day, so much fun arriving at the venue seeing all the planning and preparation that has come together to create the amazing reception for the guests.  This cake looked right at home...

 ...with a colour scheme of black, white and a touch of red.  Delivered to the Toowoomba Golf Club,  Middle Ridge and set up in the Diamond Function Room, flavours for this one were deluxe moist chocolate mud for the top and bottom and dreamy white chocolate mud for the middle!

This is a smaller version of the 'Wingett' wedding cake , this one is also black and white not black and ivory.

Compared to a couple of weeks ago with all the rain around this one was a pleasure to put together and deliver, the grounds and gardens in Toowoomba were so green and beautiful.

'Congratulations' Mr & Mrs Keleher!

White Floral Fantasy {21st Birthday Cake}

This cake was so pretty in real life!  The fantasy flower took alot of time to make and measured approximately 20cm {8inches} across but was definately worth the effort. The cake drum was 8 inches round and 8 inches tall.

I delivered this one to a private residence in Warwick last weekend, they had a marquee

in the backyard that was absolutely beautifully decorated in white and silver complete with

fairy lights, tea lights and candles scattered throughout, paper lanterns in varying sizes

adorned the ceilings some even with lights inside them, too many gorgeous details to mention...I didn't want to leave!!

The damask pattern around the cake is done with royal icing, once dry I dusted with a small amount of pearl lustre dust

Finished off with white satin ribbon, I think this balanced out the look of the pattern

Here is the top view of the huge flower,  each petal was made individually and set aside to dry before assembling it petal by petal, I used a bunch of white stamens for the centre ...crystals would also work well for something like this.  

I have no doubt this was a fabulous party,

'Happy 21st Birthday!'

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'Sweet Music' 80th Birthday Cupcakes

Here is a cupcake tower I created a couple of weeks ago for an 80th Birthday celebration at Cafe Jacqui's in Warwick.  This lady loved the piano and anything musical so I was asked to do a keyboard design and musical notes.

I made a 'keyboard' cake topper to sit on top of the stand  which simply read 'happy 80th birthday'

The little sheets of music I made out of fondant and then applied the pattern

using a cocoa transfer sheet to keep it all edible. 

When we arrived at the venue to set this one up the tables were decorated with the same sheet music as I had on the cupcakes (you can see them in the bottom left hand side of this photo) so it all tied in together really nicely!

Congratulations and 'Happy 80th Birthday' Betty.



Keep Your Pants On! {21st Birthday Cake}

This was a fun cake to make! I was told this young man likes Calvin Klein and Superman...I had seen quite a few 'jeans' cakes around and had been waiting for a chance to create my own, inspiration came from 'cake lady cakes' and 'city cake company'.  I have been really busy the last couple of weeks with upcoming wedding cake decorations...quite a few nice ones coming up :)

I wanted to texturise this blue fondant to make it look a bit more denium like, so once I rolled it out I crinkled a piece of aluminum foil around my rolling pin and rolled that over the top...I would recommend doing a test piece first, I of course did not! and in hindsight I would not have applied so much pressure.  Never the less I was still happy with the end result.  The 'Calvin Klein' words are handpainted on freehand with superblack food colouring which I also continued down each side.

I did a little superman logo on the back pocket,  I hope you liked it Dan...

"Happy 21st Birthday!"