Cakes I have made

I thought i would share some of my cakes from the last year with you. There have been good times and also bad.... really bad (which i left out hehehe)  ENJOY!

 This is the one that started it all.......

These were both for baby showers

 

Birthday Parties

                                                                Raspberry Ripple and Rosewater

                                         

Lightening McQueen

Christmas Spirit photo supplied by Kirsty Sanderson Photography



A cake i am proud of

I set myself up for a MASSIVE challenge when a couple i know needed a wedding cake. They had their dream cake in mind, but weren't expecting to get it because the quotes they got were out of their budget. So i put my hand up, and said i'll try, and that would be their wedding gift. So here it is:

Photo supplied by: Kirsty Sanderson Photography

My Birthday! Alice in Wonderland

We start the year off by celebrating me becoming another year older. For my birthday i decided to have an Alice in Wonderland theme, and felt very lucky to have some great friends who came in fancy dress.
The main point of my birthday was to get together with my friends all at once, since i dont get to see them very often with us all having our own busy lives with work and kids.
For my table decorations I got a plastic white tablecloth to cover the table, and got some flower wrapping paper (i just liked the design on it) for a table runner. I had 3 red paper lanterns. I made 2 top hats (Mad Hatter) and had a buch of flowers that had eyes stuck on them coming out of one. I also bought some white roses and splattered red paint on them (Red queen making Alice paint her roses) which were arranged in painted tea cups. I also bought a deck of cards and put them around.

My cake was 3-tiers. the bottom purple with pink stripes to represent Cheshire, the middle was white with red and black hearts to represent the Red Queen, and the top was a top hat for Mad Hatter.

I made custard Tarts (with proper custard- not the packet kind), and cake pops (which fell apart- but still tasted great)

You dont have to decorate your whole house, you can just decorate a table. As long as you put in a little effort, people will be talking about it! 

B's 4th Birthday- Buzz Lightyear

My son had an obsession with going to space and going to the "spaceport". He would stand in the backyard, stretching his arms up trying to reach the sky. Needless to say, that didn't work. So option number 2 was to jump on the trampoline and try and reach the sky. Nope, didnt work either. After thinking about it, he decided it was time to get daddy on board and try and convince him to buy a really tall ladder that will get him to the sky.
So, it got me thinking, he had already decided he wanted a Buzz Lightyear birthday party, so why not bring space to him? Easy enough right??
We started by making paper mache planets, and cutting out cardboard stars and painting them yellow then sprinkled with gold glitter. We got Black plastic wrap that went on the walls and ceiling only (warning parents of younger kids that it was there, so to keep an eye on them), and finally a couple of helium balloons.
So decorations were sorted.
For music, I went on iTunes and downloaded the Toy Story soundtrack. Also Toy Story was on the TV for the shy kids.

For food, I didn't do a lot of themed food but i had homemade sausage rolls (with hidden vegies), MilkyWay chocolate bars, and Starburst lollies (so there was a little bit of a theme)

The cake was Buzz in space with some aliens.

For the lolly bags we used noodle boxes and put on them a photo of Master B with Buzz that I ordered from a photographer.

Our party wasn't what you may call "perfect" but we did it on our own and Master B had heaps of fun on the day- which is the most important thing :)