Minion for "Happy Birthday". Can I now say that I have speaking fluency in another language? 

Repeat customers. Love them. Thank you.

This little boy is my absolute favourite. He is just so cute and so humble and so excited to see his cakes every year. And offers to hold the cake (probably half the size of him!) all by his tiny little 4 year old self. He and his dad brought another friend this year and they were both just so adorable.

Oscar requested this - Kevin the Minion. And I'm so happy with it. He's bright and happy and is almost the same size as the kids!

Fid Oflit Oscar! I hope you have a happy birthday and an amazing party! If I was a guest at your party, I'd be super jealous of the cake you have too!

And finding Dora was almost as hard as looking for Where's Wally!

My favourite part of this cake? The sign just brings it all together! Then my second favourite bit is the forage around the base of the cake. So pretty. I actually love this whole cake and it's been a while where I've been able to a little artistically wild. 

Very happy with the result.

And what do I mean when I am referring to the title? Just that almost every toy store in Sydney no longer sells Dora?!?!?! And my package didn't arrive in time (so upsetting!). Thank goodness for the lovely girl from ToysRus who totes saved me 12 hours before the cake was due!

Robots... they can be friendly or not so much. 

To make a robot friend you... use lots of colours, give it a goofy smile, have tool like arms and legs and give it friendly eyes. Mr Robot can almost be part of a cartoon or TV show!

Another caramel mud cake (my customers like to order the same flavours in waves!) with milk chocolate ganache and a vanilla bean cupcake to finish. Yum yum yum and lots of fun.

Sometimes when you're at your limits, you perform at your best. This has been one of the longest short weeks to date. At the office till 1:30 AM certainly doesn't help and it really really takes it out of you. I'm pretty sure the next day passed in a long daze.

Octonauts. Can't say it's the most popular kid's program around and as such, these figurines are a little difficult to find. Sometimes though, a bit of luck and good timing is all it takes. Thank you random Thursday night shopping and wondering into Woolies for mascapone and cream. It united me with Captain Barnacles!

I loved putting this cake together. Making the shells, starfish, bubbles, seaweed and coral was very time consuming but I just knew this was going to be an epic cake. The colours and all the elements just complement each other. And the symmetry... LOVE!

It's hopefully going to be a beautiful 4 day weekend. And I am sure two little boys will be super excited to start off their birthday celebrations with almost 100 of their closest friends! Happy Birthday Elliot and Jethro!

I had every intention of using my shiny new little canon camera with wifi capabilities. But by the time I'd run out to the shops to buy a candle and have a coffee, we were running late! So phone camera it was.

Our little Ethan (my grandmother's youngest great grandchild to date!) is one today!!! So his parent's and big brother Justin had a big party today at their house to celebrate. My goodness, a whole bunch of kids under the age of 10 is crazy! Especially when you've been charged with entertaining them for the afternoon! Thank goodness they had an awesome trampoline! But we did have games like 'pass the parcel' (completely not rigged...), 'what's the time Mr Wolf?', 'Egg and Spoon' Race and an Easter Egg hunt.

The food was amazing compliments to Ethan's grandfather who use to be the Head Dim Sum Chef at one of the main chinese restaurants in Chinatown.

And of course, I was charged with the cake! Yay!!! It makes me so happy to make it. No Thomas this year (although Justin did get a very special present). Just a little two tier, blue, green, stars, stripes and sporty cake. With a cuddly bear on the top. A fun but tiring afternoon. So glad to be part of it!



Kids love... Thomas, Dora the Explorer, Peppa Pig, the Simpsons and... CARS!!!

 

Or in this case, Mack the Truck from Cars. Bigger is sometimes better and Mack carries Cars in his semi-trailer so it's a winner! To show how much I know, I had been called it "Mavis" the truck until Elliot's mum kindly pointed out that it was "Mack". Oopsies.

 

We did a similar cake in October for a 5 year old and have done something similar here too for Elliot who is 3 tomorrow!

 

That's it from us (it's been a huge week in and out of work and baking) for this weekend. I think we've earned a well-deserved, quiet no-bake weekend! Although we do have the small task of perfecting a new recipe that is dairy and gluten-free... stay tuned.

 

We're into August and so glad - slightly warmer weather, days getting longer and more cake orders!

One special little boy is turning 5 today (his mum and I go way back!) and he picked a Ninja Turtle cake! Some things change but some cartoons will always be popular (or resurrected?!).

This cake is a triple layer of double choc mud with chocolate buttercream and then finished with another layer of dark chocolate ganache. Every child should be happy! And their mums and dads too! Crowd pleaser! We like making people happy. ;)

Such a beautiful day outside too so hope he enjoys it!

It's been a very wet weather weekend and here's something fun to do with the kids and to keep them tamed, fed and happy!

We have recently stocked up on these awesome 'tulip' style cupcake cases and look fab with icing. And can be done up some more with sprinkles, flowers, mini hearts, possibilities are endless.

Here are our simple ones from this weekend with lashings of chocolate mousse - I can just imagine them as part of a kid's party. Rainbows  and unicorns, jumping castles, clowns and fairies.