{OES Warwick} Cutting Cake and Cupcakes

My Aunty is part of the OES in Warwick and this is the cutting cake I made for their cupcake tower, each flower is handmade out of fondant and represents part of the logo, blue is the violet, yellow & white jasmine, red rose and green the fern leaf.  The ribbon around the bottom is also fondant which I embossed with a leafy pattern. Inside is chocolate mud cake.

 

Included were 40 butter cupcakes in gold papers with vanilla cream icing

 and a small red rose topper.

These were all presented on a custom gold 5 tier stand with co-ordinating ribbons

with the cutting cake on top.

Pink Cupcake Tower {Kristy}

My cousin Penny was hostess for a birthday celebration in honour of her good friend Kristy, she had a marquee in the backyard and little candles around the cake table it was really lovely!  The cupcake flavours included butter cake with vanilla cream icing and chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate mudcake with stamped fondant.

My Kitchenaid!

In answer to all the emails asking me what mixer I use in my kitchen....here it is, my shiny empire red KitchenAid which I love almost as much as the person who bought it for me, my lovely husband of course!!  I was very lucky to receive this for my birthday a couple of years ago and boy have I worked it.  You can get almost every attachment you can think of for these babies including a sausage maker and they come in many colours. If you love home cooking and are looking for a new mixer you just couldn't go past the KitchenAid. 

Lollipop Cake & Giant cupcake!

My littlest cousin 'Brittany' celebrated her 10th birthday with this lollipop cake, inside is chocolate mud cake, I didn't have a board big enough for these two so they went on seperate boards joined together and can you believe I didn't get a photo of it put together... you will just have to use your imagination!

 

The boards once joined together read 'Happy 10th Birthday B' {Brittany is often called B for short by her family & friends!} Inside this one is vanilla cake, the little cherries are red vanilla fondant with a little shine painted on and the stalks are green florist wire which I use for my fondant flowers.

3D Car Cake

This little car cake was made for a birthday during the week,  I would love to do one in fondant,  this one is buttercream icing and was quite tricky to smooth over all the curves nevertheless I still enjoyed making it!  The rocks I used on the board and around the poles are actually chocolates, you can buy these at Big W.  I think they're great...I used these around my sons digger and bobcat cakes last year and they would also make good cupcake toppers for boys parties!

While this cake was not meant to be realistic looking or replicate any particular model I did paint a small mazda badge on the front,  I thought Mitchell and his family would have a little laugh at that!

I used two road signs instead of writing on the board, these were printed off on cardstock and stuck onto skewers that I wrapped in tin foil.  "Happy Birthday Mitchell, drive carefully!"

Manolo Blahnik & Shoebox Cake

My sister-in-law Melissa just loves shoes and she is also a fan of the Sex and the City TV series... so what better gift could I have given her, Manolo Blahnik's {cake version!} The shoe is completely made of fondant icing and took about 4 days to complete, each stage had to be completely dried out before I could put it all together. I was very pleased when it all came together in the finish, the 'shoe box' is a double layer mud cake covered in fondant.

I chose this particular shoe as it appears in one of the episodes of the TV show and I thought Melissa would like that!  At the time of making this the weather was ridiculously hot which made the fondant really sticky and really hard to work with so I was very happy with the end result considering!

My mother-in-law (Kenita) asked if I could make some cupcakes for the surprise party so here they are with my favourite roses on top.  I was dissapointed I didn't get many good photos of everything, too busy rushing around to get there on time without breaking the shoe in transit!  I made some pink frangipani cupcake toppers and the others are stamped fondant to match the board of the shoe cake, these were also chocolate mud cake.

Kenita also asked me to make up some invitations to send out, I thought a little pink shoe with a bit of glitter for extra bling...perfect!

Superhero Party Package

Here are the invitations I created for a superhero party, these were printed out on cardstock with a magnectic strip on the back and went perfectly into these green envelopes!

This little person had a special diet requirement so I couldn't make his cake's but I did make 24 cupcake toppers and some matching cupcake papers and...

the treat bags were done up in brown paper bags with matching tags tied on with red ribbon, cute!  I'm now working on decorations for our church centenary celebration cake for the end of the month, two birthday cakes next weekend and my next paper project is  'save the date' cards for an engagement party it will be a bird theme {yes... lovebirds!}