{Sarah & Kayne's} Black & White Wedding Cupcakes

I recently had the pleasure of making Sarah and Kayne's wedding cupcake tower.  They had a black and white theme and my 8 inch chocolate mud cutting cake covered with white embossed fondant, silk ribbon and a huge black silk bloom for the topper.  60 deluxe size choc mud cupcakes, some trimmed with black silk ribbon, I made 400 little black and white flowers and 20 black fondant bows. I delivered and set up the stand to Picnic Point in Toowoomba and the very next day Sarah's Mum sent me some beautiful photographs and a lovely e-mail which read,

Hi Gina, just had to thank you for the absolutely wonderful cake, everyone was so wrapped in it.......... it was magnificient.. thanks so much. Despite the weather the day was just grand.
Just attached a couple of photos for you.
Thanks so much again, Elaine.

Hand made edible black fondant bows.

These were hand glittered with silver edible rainbow dust which really looked pretty but my photo doesn't show it up very well!

These one's were tied up with silk ribbon bows, hand piped with tiny royal icing white centres.

And these ones the same as above but in opposite colours!

{Caitlin's} Merry Un-Birthday Tea Party!

Here is Caitlin's teapot cake and cupcakes I made for her little party, I have lots of photos to share, I really enjoyed making everything for this one!  This is the front view of the cake, inside is chocolate mud cake and the cupcakes are buttercake.

This is the back view of the cake, Caitlin liked the ribbon around the cake board so that is what I used for inspiration!

And here is the little mouse popping out of the tea, wearing his full cup of tea on his head!

All set up for the birthday girl!

I had some huge balloons to hang over the table, these are actually called punching balloons and they have a loop at the top with a rubber band threaded through it for holding onto. I love using them for decorations they are huge! For anyone who doesn't know you can buy them in the party section at Big W.

I made some fairy floss cones which I thought were really cute!  You can make these with a square piece of paper rolled up into the cone shape, hole punch and tie up with whatever you like, I used some satin ribbon.  You could also fill with lollies and use these instead of making treat bags.

I printed out some little signs when I made the invitations, Caitlin thought these were funny so we stuck them onto a paddlepop stick and put them in the lolly bowls for a bit of a mad hatter touch.

Even the flowers were watching us!

And my favourite...Melon Martini's, both my kids love watermelon and I usually serve it at all thier parties this year I thought of a better way to serve it, in a cocktail glass {plastic disposable ones actually but they looked like glass to kids!}  to finish these off,  a wooden cocktail fork to eat it with, what little girl wouldn't love these?

{Caitlin's 7th Birthday Tea Party} Sneak Peek!

Here are the treat bags for the party goers to take home tommorrow, when I was little this was my favourite part of coming home from a birthday party...opening the bounty bag!  Caitlin had fun picking out what we were going to put inside.

I made 24 of these big bright flowers to top the cupcakes with, all made of fondant with chocolate fondant centres!

I had to share this little mouse which will be popping up somewhere in or around the teapot cake, when I made the tiny teacup and saucer Caitlin said 'put it on his head Mum!' {why didn't I think of that} I can't wait to put it all together, that's my favourite part.  I will post all the party photo's next week, finger's crossed it doesn't rain!!

{Nicolas'} Optimus Prime Transformer Cake & Cupcake Toppers!

This is my nephew's transformer cake for his 8th birthday.  Nicolas is mad about transformers so this is what I came up with. Just incase your wondering what those red balls are on top, they are candle holders I had some long black candles to go in them and they do a good job at keeping melted wax off the cake!

The flames are all made of fondant, I put some sparkly edible glitter on the tips of them all but you can't really see it in the photos.  The truck on top is a store bought Optimus Prime and boy are they tricky to 'transform' unless your an 8 year old named Nicolas of course!

I cut out a fondant number 8 to go with the flames and stuck it on the top of the truck with a bit of sugar glue.  Nicolas also had a little party in the park with his friends so I made cupcakes for that with my personalised cupcake toppers!

Disney Princess Castle Cake

This is my daughter's 5th birthday cake {two years ago!} I hadn't discovered fondant back then so all the little princesses are plastic, Caitlin loved this one and she still has all the little dolls.  We had a pool party and Caitlin came as Snow White... one of her favourites, she is on the cake right at the back.  I am now working on her 7th birthday cake, a teapot for the tea party on Sunday...fingers crossed it turns out!    

{Caitlin's 7th birthday tea party} Invitations

I am a bit un-organised this year for my daughter's birthday party. She is having a mad hatter themed tea party on the weekend and these are the little invites we made to give out to her cousins this afternoon, just a family affair this year! I was going to take them to see the movie {Alice in Wonderland} after the party but it finishes today so we won't be doing that now!  I will post the cupcake toppers, treat bags and other details as I make them and of course some pictures of the cake and the table decorations after the party!

Good Luck {Mickey} Cupcakes

I hope everyone had a safe and happy easter! I haven't posted anything for a while {I missed cookie Monday!!} as I have been busy with my own family over the easter break.  We had five lovely days at the sunshine coast which we all enjoyed, the kids especially loved spending time with thier Dad.  My nephew Mickey is in hospital in Brisbane today about to have another operation on his broken arm so I decided to post these 'good luck' cupcakes I made last year, they were origanally made for Mickey, he is a real sports star and these were for his trip to Melbourne to compete in footsal.  'Good Luck' today Mickstar!