I'll bet not many of you were expecting a post whilst I am away!

Well you thought wrong! Super duper teamwork and time management has created yet another collaboration with Chau Ly. This is our two tiered beach themed wedding cake for a colleague.

It just reeks sophistication and I cannot believe this lady can do such an amazing job from well just a dirty iced cake. The thought, time and effort into this is not small and it isn't always appreciated by all. I appreciate it and I am sure the bride and groom will too.

I just love working with this talented lady and can't wait to do more cakes with her next year! 

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!

I'm full of self-doubt sometimes and always compare myself to the best. What if I am not good enough? What if it's not clean cut? What if it collapses? I don't thrive on people singing me praises. I'm just someone who always strives to the best of my abilities.

I"m always so excited to get queries and orders as it kind of lets my (limited) imagination run along with the ideas that my customers bring to me.

I've known this couple of a few years now - first meeting when I was at my last job and well, we kind of just understood each other and the difficulties of work we went through. I was so happy to hear Mr Irish finally became an Australian citizen last year and 12 months on... they were getting married!

The beautiful flowers are provided by the Bride's florist - very Australian. Native, simple and summery colours. So the cake flavours were summery to match (at least one of them was). Passionfruit & Vanilla and Black forest Kirsch. 

I'm so happy to have been a part of it... even if the weather was hot in the mid-30s!

If you like Piña Coladas, getting caught in the rain...

She got a Wynnie cake! (It just took 2 years...)

Huge hugs and more hugs to one of the most resilient lawyers I have ever met. She is literally a rock star and I am going to miss her so so much. Not only her knowledge but her cocktail nights and her humour and her personality. She's classy and fun and smart and super cool.

And to honour her Canadian background, this was a Maple & Pecan cake (6 layers!) with Maple buttercream in the shape of a pineapple. I tried to make melting moments earlier in the week and they failed (Everyone, take note, there is such a thing called too much sugar). So needless to say that didn't turn out so well - so I made sand with the overly sweet crisps. Turned out well actually!

The scoring of the cake was so meditative and I brushing on the colours was heaps of fun too - its pretty much ad lib... add more, add less until is sort of resembles a pineapple!

Inspired by this amazingly expensive pineapple cocktail we had in Hawaii earlier this year (and feeling nostalgic and wishing I was there again... it has been a long September!).

I never thought I'd work in the IT industry - just didn't think about it.

So it's kind of funny and highly coincidental that my 9-5 consists of working very closely in the IT industry and lots of my orders are from clients with close relations to that. 

And for this particular weeknight, the brief was to create 168 beautiful and delicious vanilla and chocolate cupcakes for a launch party.

They look good and smelt so yummy. I think cupcakes are a great idea, especially if a company like this one is going to personalise it with their Company Logo. Stays in the minds of their guests.