I am starting to feel quite panicked. I am away for 27 days on a very very busy business trip. A food Trade show for our company www.denheath.co.nz in Australia. We will be in Costco Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra giving away free samples of our Custard square and selling Frozen packs of 10. Why am I feeling panicked. I make 3 to 6 flowers a week and I wont have time to make many if ANY!!! I start getting icing DT’s after just 2 days … never alone 27 days of no sugar! Here are some of my flowers… Yup Im the crazy icing lady who may need to build an extension on to the house soon to keep them all! One VERY exciting thing though! I might meet Raewyn From https://www.facebook.com/pages/CakesbyRaewyn/205607579476102?fref=ts in Sydney!!!! Too too cool!

Working with a slightly different medium for me. Usually I use Bakels Pettinice with added CMC / Tylose but this time I have been using a Gumpaste … the yellow is Rainbow Dust Yellow from the UK and have dusted with 3 different pink shades ranging from pink to Maroon. Still needs a little drying and touch up dusting. Gumpaste is harder to use for me… and my petals are not quite as thin… BUT this is probably a good think! as sometimes I make the flowers so fine they are terribly fragile!

Still playing with this medium! Its great fun. Hearty soft Japanese air drying clay, available from most cake decorating suppliers. I have written a blog on using Faux cold porcelain for the first time. http://cakesdecor.com/LMCakeDesign/blog/671

A big thank you to cakes decor for my gorgeous apron! I love it! I was shopping for a Veiner for roses and friend had shown me Nd came across Modena (a cold porcelain recommended by Alan Dunn to make flowers) it was out of stock but they had a product called heart soft! It says a faux cold porcelain virtually unbreakable, not sticky and to be used in the same method as sugar when it comes to colouring and method. It was inexpensive so I bought pack. This is my first rosé with it! I am making a peony too. I have found it the most mind blowingly amazing medium which amours me to bits!

My wee angel turned 12 this week. she adores owls and the colour purple at the moment. My first attempt at tulips and I can’t wait to try them again!!! Simple sugar roses. Mr Owl is sugar and has hand painted eyes and lots of icing feathers! Ruffles are made to look like flowers on the bottom tier. I really enjoyed this cake.

Purple and a Pink icing Tulip with simple icing roses for my daughters birthday cake. I decided I should try something different so attempted wired petals… I have tried before and failed miserable lol. So Im pleased these did not fall apart! But they have taken so long I now really need to get cracking on the owl and the cake lol!

I was playing with graduating colours… But unfortunately I dropped this and damaged a few petals. So when I dusted it I decided to try and get some depth and create realistic looking colouring. I had fun with this but its very very delicate! Cant wait to play again!

These are the most rushed cupcakes I think I have ever made!
I wanted to make a cake for my BFF’s birthday but jay did not have time so decided to do cupcakes thinking I could do them faster
Lol! Alas these kept me up most of the night! Must remember to
Make some small flowers to have on hand! All done in 4 hours
Including flowers lol

I had the true please of making a 99th Birthday cake for a friends Grandma. They wanted a very small cake so this is only about 7 -8 inches. Unlike my normal rose this rose has been attached directly to the cake. No wire or center. used the peak of the cake to form the center of the rose.
Scrolls, cameo and hand painted butterflies… All Edible

My first attempt at a sugar dahlia. For me, This flower is a marathon of sugar petals lol! (Inspired by The wonderful Ana and Goreti x)

Wanted to have a play with some left over lavender icing. Added a wee bit of pink to get a bit more depth of colour and played with graduation of colour. Had fun making this one. It was interesting that when wet this icing was very lavender but once dry it was quite pale and pink.

Large Soft Pink Icing Rose with 6 Colour graduations. Just playing and experimenting with fuller centers.

My second attempt at ruffles… I kind of like them! Loved the colours for this and had fun making it even if it was in the wee hours of the morning lol!

One of my dearest friends mums 80th Birthday Cake. Nana Green is a very special lady with a wicked sense of humour and I love her to bits and because of that, I wanted to make a beautiful special cake for her with class and elegance. My dear friend baked her mum fruit cakes and I iced them, in the wee hours of night lol! Icing roses, hand moulded icing flowers on side of cake and hand moulded scrolls. Non edible bling.

An arty take on a ruffle cake for a lady with a love of fabric and a snazzy artistic personality. Made this cake for my beautiful step daughter. She’s not into flowers but loves fabric so wanted to so some ruffles and had to use bold colours do went for copper, gold and a deep maroon deep and glittery colours. Something a bit different … I hope!

Playing with sugar … Trying to perfect the centres of my roses… Loved making this one!
Really should be making other flowers and doing the actual cakes! Lol!
But am fascinated with making flowers at the moment :-)

In our house these icing roses and David Austin roses are referred to by my family as “oh…..slightly bored sigh inserted here lol …. just another of your normal ones” lol!
So Yes, lol, I am playing with roses again! :-) I wanted to play with a bit more depth. And after seeing Christine’s (from https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-lavande-cake-boutique/160426474021741?fref=ts) fantastic beautiful roses I had to have a go at increasing my center petals. This has over 20 petals in the center alone. .... And I had to keep Keep telling myself patience is a virtue lol! Sugar hugs x

Another of my earlier cakes from back in 2010. This was a 50th cake for my dear friend and office lady. She loves the colour green and I just wanted to play and experiment so this is what I came up with lol!
Chocolate fudge cake with Italian Meringue Buttercream, Pettinice, Cachous hand painted with gold dust and alcohol. One of my very first peonies made with Pettinice with added cmc

Just playing with left over icing. Was inspired by a fellow caker to make a yellow centered pink icing rose. This is what I came up with using 2 shades of yellow and 2 shades of pink. I have made one more but prefer this one! Tutorial coming on my page Soon!!!

Had a huge craving to play with icing last night! I needed to use up some of the icing from the Isis Belle Rose But knew I did not have enough pink so thought I could try using a a white too. I’m quite pleased with the result and think next time I might use more than 3 shades. Perhaps experiment with some different colours! I need lots of flowers for a cake in March! No cutters used just the method in my tutorial with a plastic bag :-) Final photo is after dusting was complete