A cake full of tulips

Flowers & a cake for the lucky birthday girl - Ele.

Ele is lucky to have some wonderful friends who organised for me to create this cake for her birthday today.

This is a chocolate mud cake slathered with lots of chocolate ganache for the chocolate lover who ordered this cake.

I was testing out my new tool to get straight and smooth sides when ganaching and it's an awesome tool! The cake looks great after using this tool. If you're wondering what it is, it is a try square!!

Banana Toffee Cupcake

There's a surprise farewell morning tea tomorrow for a colleague who is moving to Taranaki at the end of the week so I whipped up a batch of banana cupcakes topped with toffee buttercream for tomorrow.

I still have a bit of the buttercream leftover but not for long! Yummy for my tummy.

I was also making a tulip from scratch for another project but my tulip just doesn't resemble a tulip! So frustrating - I might go buy myself some tulips to 'study' before I make my next one.

Purple Power

Anisha's Purple Flowers

Here's the last birthday cake for the week! 

This cake is for Anisha, she loves anything purple so I made some purple anemone flowers to put onto her cake. I had to get another secret squirrel to find out what cake she likes and I had to wing it as I've never made a caramel mud cake before. I hope it turns out yummy!! 

I'm already thinking about what to make next, banana & toffee cupcakes or macarons.

My New Apron

I almost forgot to show you what I received in the post last weekend!

My long awaited kiddie sized apron from Nestle. I had totally forgotten about the apron until arrived!

I was too late with my order for the apron with "Pretty" embroidered on it so "Temptation" will be without it's other half. :(

Double Birthdays

Leilani's Sailing Cake

Mat's Golf Course

My weekend was rather busy with having promised to make 2 cakes for work tomorrow.

I had to change the design plan for one of the cakes so it became rather plain since I didn't have enough time to bake another cake today, ganache it AND decorate it for tomorrow morning.

I was originally supposed to create one cake this weekend but I was asked by a colleague to bake a cake for another colleague's surprise morning tea tomorrow morning so that made it a rather busy day for me today.

Leilani loves to sail so I decided to create a cake with a yacht and put her initials on the spinnaker (or sail? I can't remember which is which after a long day!) and the golf themed cake is for Mat. The original cake for Mat was to be a boxing ring but I had a wee bit of a problem so I had to improvise. With the help of my sister-in-law, the creative wizard we had some coloured sugar for the 'grass' and I created the little golf ball and flag. If I had more time I would have put some details around the side of the cakes.

Chocoholics Delight for a 21st

I was kept busy for most of today making Bray's 21st birthday cake and cupcakes.

The cake was chocolate mud with coffee and the cupcakes were chocolate with orange...all ganached with dark chocolate. I must admit that I could hardly taste any of the orange I had put into the mixture.

Stella asked that I put a turtle onto the cake and so I did. I know that it's anatomically incorrect but hey, it's supposed to be 'cute'. I hope the birthday boy likes his cake and cupcakes.