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

Put a cork in it...

This cake was for my cousin-in-law, Maddie, who just turned 18. I was given free reign on the design with the only real advice provided, Maddie isn't a girly girl. Hmmm, there goes the pink cake with a princess on top. I think I have been doing too many cakes for the under 5s!

After some thought, I came up with this idea...

It may be a little difficult to read the label, but the bottle is modeled after the Penfolds brand, but written as "Pikes" (her last name is Pike). The style of wine is "Madeleine" with a vintage of 1993. The message on the board was a little cheeky, but her Mum didn't mind.

The cake itself was dark chocolate mudcake with dark chocolate ganache. It was 13" x 4.5" x 4.5" high of chocolaty goodness. And to my non-alcoholic taste, it was a whole lot nicer than a glass of the red stuff.


Happy 18th Maddie!


Kat

Hooray for Hollywood...

A cake for Annika, who is celebrating her 13th birthday in Hollywood style...

The colour scheme requested was black, white, red and gold. And what screams Hollywood more than walking the red carpet.

And I couldn't help but style Annika's dress up a little with some frills...

The cake itself was a 7" egg-free chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache.


Happy Birthday Annika!


Kat

Faster than lightening...

"They call him Flipper, Flipper..." Ok, so Sophie probably has no idea who Flipper is, but she likes dolphins. It seems 9 year old girls are less into TV characters, and more into straight animals (Hannah Montanna is soooo 8).

My daughter, Libby, said it looked like this cake had lots of blue rainbows all of it. Thanks for the constructive criticism there Darling Daughter.

Happy 9th birthday Sophie!


Kat

Many crowns for a princess...

Just a quick one. Some cute pink crown cookies for the gorgeous Abbie and her friends at Kindy.

Happy birthday Abbie!


Kat