As the years go on, it becomes increasingly popular. This year, the cancer council aim to reach over $11 million.

As my contribution to such a worthwhile cause I baked some vanilla biscuits and decorated them In a variety of ways. I decorated some with the well known breast cancer pink ribbon, I also baked some teapots and the remainder of the biscuits I decorated in blue and yellow which are the colors of the “biggest morning tea.”

Although the cancer council is synonymous with daffodils, I made do with whatever flower cutters I had. Next time I will try the daffodils.

Let’s hope the cancer council reaches its target through generous donations!

I was asked to do a cake for a guy who is a gyprocker (is that the right term?) by trade. So I made a screwdriver, a hammer and a trowel. I also wanted to have “happy birthday” written on the cake somewhere so decided to incorporate that on the tape measure.

It was a fairly plain and simple cake but effective.

The cake was a vanilla cake with shavings of dark chocolate through it and white chocolate ganache.

Can I just say that these soccer balls were one of the hardest things I’ve done so far!! I tried all sorts of things for these balls- making flat cupcake toppers and hand painting the design, making round balls and hand painting them. Each time, they came out ok but not good enough. In the end I moulded the half ball and painted on the necessary pattern and was happy with the end result.

The cupcakes were a gluten free chocolate (my first gluten free) with a buttercream frosting and the cookies were vanilla flavored.

To help celebrate I baked some cupcakes and made some little toppers to go with them. I also wrapped some cupcakes in special love heart cupcake wrappers.

The cupcakes were vanilla flavored with Swiss buttercream (which was supposed to be tinted pink but you can’t really tell in this photo).

I made different toppers from his hobbies/interests.

It was my first attempt at making a soccer boot and the black one in the bottom corner is supposed to be darth vadar.

The cupcakes were vanilla with a vanilla Swiss buttercream.

The first cake I baked was for my brother in law’s birthday. I decided on a soccer related theme as this year he is also celebrating 20 years with the same soccer team.

My girls put their own personal touch on the cake board by painting with food coloring gels!

The cake was a devil’s food cake (my preferred choice of chocolate cake at the moment) with dark chocolate ganache.

My second eldest daughter turned three during the week. Like her older sister she loves princesses. She has always teetered between Snow White and Belle, with Snow White having a slight advantage in the last little while. So this set the foundation of the cake.

I would have liked to do a cake in the shape of a book with the characters popping out but that didn’t fly with the little Miss. She just wanted Snow White … So I made Snow White … and a red apple … and a dwarf (not sure who it is … We’ll go with Happy). I was all set to decorate when the cheeky one says to me the day before, “mum it’s good but do you know what would make it perfect? … Belle.” So I made Belle, the mirror she uses to see her Papa, a rose with falling rose petals. And that’s where it stopped.

The end result was pretty good. And it was all worth it when she said on her birthday morning, “thank you mummy, it’s beautiful!”

The cake was a chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache.

Happy birthday Sabrina!

It seems during the year, my little girl was still heavily into the Princess theme.  Her favourite Disney Princess is Cinderella.  So I worked on Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother ahead of time.  I also thought it might have been time for me to attempt a castle.  May have been a bit ambitious after having baked so much already but the end result was worth it and just to see my little girl’s face!

I have to admit I was not 100% happy with the towers – they are not edible – next time I may consider making these cake, but I was happy with the actual cake part.

Also, the final design is a mixture of all kinds of castle cakes I found by ‘googling.’ But most help with the Princess design especially, came from “The Cupcake Gallery.”

The cake was a Devil’s Food Cake with dark chocolate ganache.

The invitation for the party was a ‘mushroom fields’ theme from a site called Party Divas.  The birthday girl’s mum had seen the starry 1 cake I had done previously so we went with a similar idea.

I was really happy with how this cake turned out.  And I really love the red colour scheme!

The cake was a vanilla cake with a strawberry mousse filling and white chocolate ganache. I made the bee and the mushroom to match the invite.

The matching cupcakes were vanilla with a white chocolate ganache and the cookie pops were a vanilla biscuit.

The invitation to the party was of a fairy princess so I used that as inspiration.

As two of my three children love princesses at the moment, I went with the whole theme and created a very girly cake.  I was very happy with the end result and had so much fun making all the figurines.

The cake was chocolate with dark chocolate ganache.  The cake was quite fudgy as I used a different chocolate as one of the attendees at the party had a nut allergy.  All in all, I still think it tasted good.

One of the hardest parts to this cake was the frog – took me a while to get the hind legs right!