Present Box Cake

Chantelle's celebrating her 40th this year - it's been and past but she's going away with some of her closest friends and family to celebrate over the long weekend.

The colour of this cake is no doubt one of her favourite colours and what more fitting than a cake as a present.

The cake is a moist chocolate mud cake covered in a rich layer of dark chocolate ganache. I'm getting hungry just thinking of the cake - yum! I know she would have loved the red velvet but the cream cheese icing will definitely not last until Saturday unrefrigerated. Notice it's a 'red' cake she was originally after!

Happy 40th Chantelle!

A Red Velvet Present

It's been a hectic last couple of weeks - hence the silence from the resident bakeaholic.

I had one of those weeks where nothing I did went right. I attempted to make lemon cupcakes but it turned out to be rockcakes. So, to right the wrong I made a batch of red velvet cupcakes as a present to console myself that the week can't get any worse.

We went to the Food Show today and it was foodie heaven! I thought I'd be there for maybe 2 hours - I ended up spending 5 hours there and it almost cleared my piggy bank out BUT I did get to watch 2 demonstrations which made me really hungry and left with bags of goodies.

Before I forget - Do you like the new look of my blog?! I certainly do and it is all thanks to Myla - the Blog design whiz from Design Me Pretty. She did an awesome job and if I could send her some cupcakes I would!

Shoe Cake

Remember the gum paste shoe I made a wee while ago? Well - it was actually for Michele's birthday....surprise!!!

The cake was a white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache - Michele has always asked for white chocolate so white chocolate it shall be. I'll try an apple cake next year since that is her other favourite.

a pretty present for you

I couldn't resist it...I had to go into the kitchen!!! 

Here is my very first attempt at decorating a cupcake using fondant. This wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.


The chocolate cupcake is covered in a thick layer of chocolate ganache before I prettied it up to look like a gift.

a pretty delectable gift for you

Yellow gift parcels