Minecraft

Without being told, I could guess the age of this birthday boy! 10. Patience is a virtue with little squares. And they take so much longer than you can expect. I don't really know what all the pixelated items are but the axe is cute? ...

Sydney Cake Bake & Sweets Show

And what a wonderful Sunday it was! This year, I signed up for a class - how to make wafer paper flowers and watercolour cake. And even better, I did this with 4 other friends (so we took up just under half the class!). Who would have thought that wafer paper and piping gel could be the bane of your existence? ;) A...

A Christening Cake for Demiro

And a delivery to the wild wild west! Baby booties, building blocks and a little cute bear. Last one for the quarter I'm afraid. Miss 9-5 is turning into 9-midnight... Until Jul...

Day of the Dead

I think of it as the Mexican version of Halloween or All Hallow's Eve. Or some people think of the cartoon or some similar children's show. No matter, it is the day that Mexican's celebrate those who have passed away. Amazingly, it is not at all "scary" but more about colours, flowers and things to celebrate their...

Japonaise: not Japanese

The brief was almond sponge. Some days I am good at following instructions. Other days, I like to do things my own way (which is a skewed way of following said instruction). This is a cake where we sort of met halfway. I took the basic Japonaise cake - layers of almond meringue sandwiches between rich coffee buttercream...

Mumsy & Bubs

I can count the number of times I've been invited to a baby showers with the fingers on my right (or left) hand! I made some mini cupcakes with baby themed marshmallow fondant and a super cute (almost Disney's Belle-esque) tummy cake for mummy! I personally find it a little weird to 'cut' a tummy cake but at the same...