I was away for just a couple of days and I missed so many lovely cakes that have been posted

The blue water lily I posted earlier is finally on a cake….Here is the rest of the cake

I don’t know whether what I have done on the cake is more confusing now than ever…..This is the first time I have had to think of explaining what I have done on a cake. I don’t know what it says about my design sense ( A design on a cake has to speak for itself… here I don’t know :-( )

I tried to depict major milestones in my hubby’s life as stepping stones.

The 40th Birthday Cake…..

Starts with the Blue Water Lily (Nymphaea stellata) on the cake board, the national flower to represent my hubby’s roots and next is the first stepping stone with the year he was born and baby hand prints.

Way down the line comes the stone depicting when he landed ‘Down Under’ going onto the next layer of cake which contains the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) (last minute quick one) and Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) the national and state floral emblems to symbolically represent the lovely country we have called home…... which contains the stones for the graduation , marriage and the year the kids were born.

Now going on to the next layer of cake containing the figurine representing my hubby ( a caricature?) about to step on a stone with 40 written on it, holding a card my kids made for their Dad (Appa). The stepping stones after this is going into infinity to represent long life…..

Well that is my take on my cake made with love, I don’t know whether you will like it …love it or hate it BUT my Hubby loved it and I got away with putting flowers on the cake too ????... so that’s what matters I guess.

Thank you so much for looking and hope you love it too :-) I have also done a tutorial for the Waratah incase you would like to have a look.

More photos available on my facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi) and my Blog (http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/stepping-stones-life-so-far-and-beyond.html) if you are interested in looking

Can you imagine a flower on a man’s cake??? Actually for my hubby’s birthday next week and this is not the only flower that is going to be on the cake!!!:-0 You must be thinking I am NUTS ( flowers are usually what a lady would like on her cake)!!!

I know I am taking quite a few risks I wonder how it is going to turn out !!!!!!, whether he will like it.
I still can’t decide whether I will put this on or not yet. Any thoughts?? It is supposed to be a symbolic representation and the flowers will not be the main focus (hopefully) if it is of any help.

These are few of my latest cupcakes. Made 60 cupcakes but managed to decorate only 31 of them :-). More detailed story and picture on my blog if you are interested in having a look.
http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/lastminute-cupcakes-galore.html

A quick birthday cake I created yesterday for a lovely little girl

Created Dec 2011

Ben 10 cake I created Dec 2011

Some of the enamel effect accents I did last year.

We don’t celebrate Easter so I didn’t really have an Easter cake to submit :-). I was in two minds whether to make one especially for the competition. My son egged me on to make one, So this is what I have been busy with the last two days. The girl is one of the set of faces I have been hand molding. First time trying out different techniques on face sculpting. I just loved doing this cake.

Chocolate cake with buttercream and hazelnut cream filling, covered with fondant and topped with fondant and gumpaste embellishments.

These were the 3rd set of cupcakes I have done so far. This is my take on a vintage style Bachelorette party Cupcakes with the cupcake in the wine goblet for the bride-to-be. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream and fondant. It was done for an inspiration challenge. First time I had entered a contest of any sort. I didn’t win, hopefully next time. Had loads of fun doing it.
More detail photos can be found on my blog: http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/old-hollywood-bachelorette-party.html

Thank you for looking

Since I did the harmony day cupcakes… I was on a roll…. and there so many of them remaining waiting to be decorated ( I had baked 54 cupcakes but i managed to do only 24 for harmony day within the time space so there 30 of them gleaming at me ;-) ) . I came back from the picnic lunch and started on these…. Hope you all like them. There are more detailed pictures of each cupcake on my blog though if you want to have a look ( I couldn’t load all of them here)

http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/cupcakes-take-2.html

I hope I am improving with my cupcakes? :-)

This is the first time I tried Full on cupcakes. I had forgotten there was a family picnic lunch at school for Harmony day. Only the previous evening I was reminded…....More details on my Blog, if you want to have a read

http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/happy-harmony-day-21st-march.html

This was also the reason, why I haven’t been near Cakesdecor or the computer for the past two days. I don’t know how many lovely cakes I have missed :-(.....

Thank you for looking and Happy belated Harmony day everybody.

You all must be sick of seeing my roses over and over again :-). Here is twenty more for you to go …’Here she goes again….”.

We are sharing the load for a for a small family function…my part was to do the peach coloured roses. The function hasn’t taken place yet so I don’t know how the roses will look on the cake.

The rainbow rose was initially done for a tutorial. Here is some of the variations on it. The one with multi coloured shaded petals was suggested to me by one of my friends. I don’t know whether I did what she expected.

Christmas down under. A quick cake done for my son’s childcare Christmas party 2011.

Request from a 4 year old girl. First time I tried my hands on painting a scenery on fondant. She loved it

This cake is very close to my heart. Did it when I started. The last cake I did for my father. I miss him so much. These were my first three figures in fondant/gumpaste, depicting him and his grand kids sitting on a sofa

Always been fascinated by the venetian mask. Mask inspired by a decorator/ aurthor. The orange lace inspired by a piece of my mom’s lace

My version of enamel effect (Inspired from the stained glass effect by Corrie and Nadia)

Tried my hands on different flowers instead of roses

Tried going traditional. Photography is not that great