I used Alison Lawson’s squiggles design to do this dome-shaped cake. Ever since I saw one of her cakes, I fell in love with the design and wanted to make my own.She has a tutorial here:
http://www.austcakedecoratingnetwork.com/cake_autumn_2013

This is a light chocolate fondant cake with a Lindt 70% chocolate ganache/buttercream mix, covered with fondant. The cross design is my own :-)

While trying out few ideas for upcoming wedding season, these came to life! They did get quite a positive response on my FB page :-)

I was doing a run for an all-white cupcake fit for a Christening, Bridal Shower, Wedding… I wanted a romantic feel to the cupcake and that’s what I came up with. I also tried another kind of shoe that I will post later :-)
Hope you like it !!!

These pictures were taken today during the fundraiser for Children Against Cancer. It was for a great cause, I worked hard to finish everything on time, was very sore, but it was all worth it!
I want to thank the following wonderful people who helped me make the decision to do this fundraiser by answering my Forum question a month ago; you made the difference, thank you! And they are:
Jo from Ciccio
Helenna from ClearlyCake
Kerry from KiwiEatCake
Nicole from JustForTheCakeOfIt

Here are the cupcakes that went with my “Nada” cake.
Flavors: Lemon with lemon buttercream and Cranberry Orange with orange buttercream.

This was done for a lady who turned 50 and did not want a “number” on her cake… We did add the number on the cupcakes that went with this cake (picture on your right when they were in the box). She wanted earthy tones… I had shown her flowers in pink shades and these (in a peach creamy shade) and she chose these.

Both cakes (square and round) are 4-layers chocolate cake with layers of Valrhona Guanaja chocolate ganache and one layer of a puree of caramelized tangerine peel. The customer sent a me a message earlier to tell me it was more than succulent (that makes me happy).

Nothing fancy here in terms of decoration but I still wanted to share this new recipe I tried today for my dad’s birthday. I came across Christophe Michalak’s site a few days ago and fell in love with his creations. And I desperately wanted to try one. He was named best pastry chef in the world for 2005. Luckily I found this one:
http://www.tarteletteblog.com/2008/02/strawberry-lime-tartelettes-and-new.html

It is a Almond Short Dough, Almond Cream and Lime Curd Whipped Cream…

It is one of the yummiest tarts/cakes I’ve had and it is far better than a “Fraisier”...
I still added few fondant accents :-))

Here’s my first dome shaped cake, all covered in white. I have always wondered how an all-white cake with all-white flowers would look like… And here it is! I like the purity of the color, the simplicity and the shape. This was a present from me to a dear friend who just had a surgery!

The brief regarding this cake: the girl’s mom wanted a “pool” cake for her daughter’s boyfriend’s birthday (both 18 years old) who happens to work as a lifeguard during summers. She wanted something small that will be a total surprise to Andy. So had to do the red shorts (of course), the girl in the pool waiting to be rescued… She also wanted to keep it simple so no “girly” stuff such as flowers!

It’s a 6” triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache in between layers, covered with ganache then with a layer of chocolate buttercream on the sides and blue buttercream on top with Kit Kat of course!

I must say this is my first time making figurines and I must admit it is not easy especially when they are small. I found it hard to hold it in my hand and try to shape it without damaging it or squeeze hard on it. Oh well, there is a first for everything and this was MY first :-))

Hi all,
I am posting this to wish all of you who follow the Latin rite in the Christian calendar a Happy Easter!
Have a great weekend :-)

I was finally able to to try, for the first time, a Maggie Austin inspired ombré frilled cake. I had to try for my own birthday as I was too scared to try it for someone else :-)) The final result was not too bad, I liked it. I started with the WiltonTeal Green icing color and did the ombré effect by adding white fondant. I did not have time to do a cabbage rose and I don’t have a peony cutter yet. So, a dogwood did it!!

Playing around with roses… Have not done a big red rose before… The inside of this rose is made with cutters and the outside leaves are done by hand, individually, molded on spoons :-)

I am loving this look as you might have noticed :-)
I had to do one with an Easter Bunny that is colorful and sweet and here it is! Hope you like it!!!

A speckled cake inspired by Viva La Cake speckled cake… I like this look a lot especially that I also made cupcakes based on the same idea but the cupcakes with finer speckles (based on The Cake Blog cake). I also like the toned down colors on this one :-)

I am trying (again) the technique first used by Lisa from LMCakeDesign using two colors for flowers… and here it’s pale yellow and pink with a more striking yellow center. I like the outcome and it is so much fun!!

This cake was done for my friend Grace on a very short notice… She loved it and that’s the most important thing. It’s a 6” triple layer chocolate cake filled with a Valrhona chocolate ganache & buttercream mix, then covered with Italian langues de chat and sprinkled with pink sugar. The addition of the gumpaste flowers brings it all together!

It was fun making this cake, based on the original idea by taatjes “Pigs in Mud Bath”.
It’s a double chocolate cake with a ganache/chocolate buttercream filling, then topped with pure ganache for the “mud”... with a little bit of fondant accents. Taz are toys!

Special thanks to all those who responded a couple of weeks ago to my Tasmanian Forum question… We ended using toys so that Taz looks genuine :-))

This was totally inspired by The Cake Blog… Loved the idea and wanted to do it immediately. But did not get to make the cake yet, so I opted for a cupcake for today :-)
The egg is not edible… had to match the gumpaste color to the egg and do the speckles… It’s a lot of fun. The Cake Blog did the speckles on buttercream, here it is fondant!

Adding to the other posts, here is one with a special gold look…

This is one of several cupcakes that I already posted (and more to come) designed for Mother’s Day here on March 21 (beginning of Spring – that is why I decided to do an all-flower theme with totally different looks)...
Thanks for looking :-)

{I am posting this while waiting to find out who the next Pope is… I guess everyone else is doing the same as there are not a lot of members active right now :-) }

If it looks like I am on a cupcake spree, I am :-)
Well, March 21 is our Mother’s Day and I am trying to get as many customers as I can on my FB page :-))
Also, I like sharing what I am doing with all of you… Thanks for looking!!!

Rosewater cupcakes with vanilla buttercream decorated with gumpaste flowers…