Dora the Bikie Explorer

Although only 2 years old, little Zoe has specific tastes. Namely Dora the Explorer and motorbikes. Not exactly an easy pair to combine... But I took a shot and came up with this:

If you are unfamiliar with this Spanish speaking superstar of the preschool world, she has a sidekick. "Boots" the monkey is aptly named as he wears bright red boots (and nothing else). I couldn't have Dora riding solo, so Boots had to join her in a sidecar.

Dora is riding over a 7" dark chocolate mudcake layered with dark chocolate ganache.

Happy Birthday Zoe!

Kat

The leaning tower of cake!

Here is a cake that has possibly aged me about 10 years in a day.

No it's not Photoshop, this cake is actually standing up by itself. However, I stressed all day that it wouldn't stay that way. I am sad to see some of my cake creations cut up. This one I couldn't wait to attack with a knife, because at least then the worry of it falling would be over. And of course it was all my fault as it was a design I came up with.

Anywho, it survived, was eaten and appreciated. Just don't ever ask me to make it again!


Wishing my good friend Pauline a very happy wonky 40th birthday!


Kat

Just what the Doctor ordered!

Cookies for Dr Jo from her good friend Dr Julia! She asked for a mixture of my two most recent cookie gift boxes. And here is what I came up with:

I must admit  to stereotyping English people. As both the lovely doctors are English, I took a gamble that Dr Jo likes the odd cup of tea and tried out my tea cup cookie cutter for the first time. Dr Julia has since assured me that Dr Jo is in fact a tea drinker, so the stereotype stays. (Must admit to being impartial to the odd cup of Earl Grey myself.)

The cookies were packaged up in a box like such:

So a jolly good Birthday to you Dr Jo!

Kat

Who wants a tickle?

This cake was for Kate, who just turned 3. She wanted a Mr Men themed cake, and her favourite is Mr Tickle (also my hubby and son's favourite). Her Mum has a tendency to refer to her as Little Miss Chatterbox and hence this cake was born:

I looked through my daughter box set of the Little Miss books for some inspiration, and came across this in Little Miss Curious:

"Why do flowers live in beds but never sleep?" she asked the flowers in the her garden.

They just smiled, knowingly.

These flowers were just the cutest thing ever so they made it onto the the cake too.

The cake itself, was a 7" dark chocolate mudcake with layers of dark chocolate ganache. Inside Mr Tickle and Little Miss Chatterbox is my homemade equivalent of LCM bars (a mix of melted marshmallows and rice bubbles).

Happy Birthday Kate!


Kat

You can't stop the music!

Just a quick cookie gift box with a musical theme...

And, in case you were curious, the musical notes are the actual tune to the "Happy Birthday" song. Yes, I am a bit crazy that way...


Happy 50th David!


Kat

Original Gift Idea

When it comes to buying a birthday gift for a woman, there is certainly a list of generic gifts you can choose from. Candles, soap, stationary to name just a few. But a gift box of personalised cookies? Not generic at all, and certainly not something you could re-gift! 

And to make it even the better, you can tell the recipient that the cookies were purchased with a donation to Tear! Surely now you will be in the running for an award for creative gift giving.

Finally, if you needed any further convincing, they come packaged in a gift box, with ribbon and a home made gift tag. No wrapping required!

So what are you waiting for? Don't waste your time getting lost at the Mall, send Baking for Goats and email and order your cookie gift box today!

Oh, and Happy Birthday Alicia!

Kat

PS: Did you realise that Mother's Day is a little over a month away? Get your orders in now!

Heel the world...

When asked to do my first shoe cake, I must admit to being a little nervous. But thankfully the cake decorating world online is a generous one, and Pink Cake Box have a detailed tutorial on their website. The brief for this cake was something with a high heel in the colours blue, silver and white. Here is the finished cake:

I'm not sure it is a shoe I would actually wear (not really a high heel kind of girl) but it looked pretty and that was good enough for me (it's about a size 8 if you were wondering). The cake (shoe box) was 6"x10" of white chocolate mud goodness (to feed about 40-50).

Also, in exciting news, this cake brought up $1500 of funds raised for Tear Australia! Considering Baking for Goats has only been operating since September 2010 (6 months), that is a great result. Thanks to all my clients!

So Happy Birthday Tracy,

30 is the new 20!

Kat