Staying Alive...

Originally, I was asked for a disco inspired cake for a 50th birthday. Although I had some ideas I was keen for more inspiration. So I was sent the invitation which contained this groovy little guy...

... and the rest is history...

A close up of the groovy dancer busting a move...

Happy Birthday Paul!


Kat

Tea anyone?

Some tea inspired cookies for a Kitchen Tea. Based around a previous design that my friend, Nicole, loved...

Happy Kitchen Tea Romina,


Kat

Surprise!

I had the pleasure of making the birthday cake for my friend Tonya's surprise party. Somehow her crazy husband managed to fly her mother from the USA to Australia and get 80 of her friends into the backyard without her having a clue! Shock may have been a more appropriate description of how she felt.

Her cake was massive. It consisted of 2 x 8" square cakes, making it an 8" cube. It also weighed a tonne!

Happy Birthday Tonya!


Kat

My little cake...

This little 5" cake was made for Lucy, a fan of My Little Pony (ok, admit it, everyone has been a fan at some time or another). I raided my daughter's bookshelves for inspiration which really helped to get the MLP shape right. I love the soft pastel colours of this cake!

Happy Birthday Lucy!


Kat

Better than a deep-fried cricket...

Here are some butterfly cookies I did a for a little one's birthday party. The colour scheme was based on the invitations...

Happy Birthday Harper,


Kat

Get ready to wiggle...

My son, Ryan, recently turned 4 and he has been talking about having a Wiggles birthday since he asked Santa for one 7 months ago. To say Ryan is obsessed with the Wiggles is a massive understatement... Anyway, thanks to my endless exposure to the fruit salad loving foursome, I had plenty of inspiration for his cake, just not necessarily enough time to apply it. But after a very late night, I managed to pull together the Big Red Car and it's occupants...

Due to time constraints (it was well past midnight) the Wiggles have their hair painted on, but I tried my best to make them look fairly authentic (including Anthony's sideburns).

I wanted to include some of the other characters too, but just didn't have the time. So I tried to include Wags and Dorothy in spirit with the details...

And of course any friend of Dorothy's knows of her love of roses...

Finally, just to prove that the Big Red Car was edible (and of course what Ryan insisted on eating) here is a photo of what my cakes look like on the inside. In this case, a white chocolate mudcake with white chocolate ganache...

Happy Birthday to my favourite (and only) son,


Kat

Up, up and away...

This birthday cake was for little Paxton, who was turning 1. His mum and dad wanted to celebrate surviving their first year of parenthood with a wonderfully cheerful theme: primary coloured balloons! (For those of you wondering what the primary colours are... they are blue, red and yellow.) Given the theme, I was allowed to come up with the design of the cake.

I love little Paxton's expression as he is floating into the sky!

And of course no theme is complete without matching cookies for party favours...

Balloons are fickle creatures, they pop or float away and often before their owner would want them to (I have suffered through many a balloon induced tantrum!) Unfortunately, I think balloon cookies and cakes would be no different... they are not here for a long time, but definitely a good time.


Happy Birthday Paxton!


Kat