Butterflies and Naming days

When our lovely friends Vanessa and Justin asked for a pretty cake for their beautiful daughter Adalira on her naming day, how could I say no. Vanessa contributed with a delicious Orange and Poppy Seed cake for the base and here's what came next.

Using the sleeping baby mould from Cakes Around Town and petal paste I made a cute little baby.

 

 With the addition of soft shading with Barco petal dust in flesh, pale pink, pale yellow and light brown and a cute layered ruffle bum and butterfly, our sleeping baby was complete.

 She was then perched atop the yummy layers of orange and poppy seed cake with cream cheese butter cream. The night before I had punched out 100 butterflies in soft lilac hues and set them to dry. They were then swirled around the cake in a beautiful pastel mass.

 

 Surrounding the cakes were trays of yummy cake pops - Mocha for the grown ups and pretty pastel hued Cinnamon Donut pops for everyone!

 So all together it made a 'pretty' yummy display...

Happy naming day miss Adalira -

photo courtesy of Raymond Keyworth Photography

We look forward to watching you grow, passing on all our love and wisdom (and lots of baking tips in Aunty Rachel's kitchen).

XOXO
Sugarpie

Totally girly Pink 'High Tea' tower

I have to say so this is now one of my fave cakes ever. In fact I want someone to make me a teapot tower all for myself. The request was for a pretty cake for a 17 year old's high tea birthday party, so what better than a Pink spotty teapot ringed with ultra girly cupcakes in pretty shades of pinks, blues and whites.

thanks to my hubby for the photography :-)

So we started off with a ball cake of layered pink and vanilla butter cake with rosy pink bubble gum butter cream.....

3D sports ball pan, layers of pink and vanilla butter cake, bubble gum butter cream

While the butter cream was crusting over (important before adding fondant or it gets rather messy) I layered the base board 'doily' with white fondant. It was then imprinted with one of my scrap booking rubber background stamps (yep multi purpose items are awesome) then brushed with silver pearl lustre dust. I wish you could see the awesome shimmer on these cakes....

8inch cake board with white fondant, stamped impression and silver lustre dust

The teapot came next. I rolled and shaped the handle and spout and left them in a bed of cornflour overnight to harden and they were attached in the morning with a dab of melted white chocolate. The teapot itself is covered in bright pink fondant with baby pink spots and white hearts. The 'Lid' was made with a Karen Davies Vintage Brooch Mould from Cakes Around Town - the same mould set was used on the bow cupcakes. Pale pink lustre dust was then used sparingly to give the whole teapot a slight shimmer.

Rosy pink teapot with spots and hearts

It was then time to build the cupcakes that surround the stand (and thank you to my handy man hubby for making the custom sized stand for me xoxo).
All the cupcakes are delicious Vanilla with a thin bubblegum butter cream layer beneath a fondant top.

 First up were the fondant bows and brooches. The broaches were dusted with lustre dust to create a pretty pearled finish.

vanilla cupcake, fondant bow, fondant brooch

 Then a cute little heart and circle motif to match the teapot.

vanilla cupcake, organza ribbon, hearts and circles.

 The next set have an impressed fondant top created with the same stamp used for the doily base. Again a brushing of lustre dusts raises the print and a cute flower highlight mimicking the flower shapes in the imprint.

stamp impressed fondant, lustre dust, plunger cut flowers, yellow sugar pearls

 Last of all my favourite of the bunch - the chocolate pearl centred ruffle flower. This is just to pretty and girly and just about sums me up perfectly!

vanilla cupcake, ruffle flower with chocolate pearl centre, butterfly cake wrap

So the lower tiers of cup cakes come together in pretty and very girly celebration....

the delectable lower tiers

Put it all together and this is the stunning result.....enjoy a cuppa, or two.

the perfect High Tea tower.

 Next week......'Jeepers' the Moshi Monster tiger and a cake perfect for a little horse loving girl.

XOXO

the start of a busy month and a blast from the past

So the next 4 weeks are going to be a bit busy. As well as my normal job i have a few cakes and treats on the books but my reward in the end is a visit to the family in Rocky and then an awesome girls weekend down the coast.
So what's coming up in the kitchen over the next few weeks? This week a set of sweet treats for a Saturday High Tea style tasting for the girls from the lovely Miss Karen's bridal party with the mothers. They will be tasting the treats Karen has selected for her vintage style Sweets Buffet at her up coming wedding.
Then next week I have another High Tea themed cake, this time a pretty pink teapot with a selection of pretty cup cakes. I picked up the most amazing fondant mould shaped like vintage brooches (the kind your grandmother had on her dressing table) to create very girly cup cake toppers from Cakes Around Town. These ladies have some the most tempting moulds I have seen! They will be all displayed on a one of a kind cup cake stand that hubby is kindly helping me build.
A couple of days later I have a very very funky and fun Moshi Monster 'Jeepers' cake - cute little tiger - to make. After that it is straight on to sweet horse themed cake - looking forward to hand modelling  a cute sugar pony. The craziness is then rounded out by a very special cake for a very special ladies 65th birthday. Shhhh can't tell you much but I can say that it features lots of modelling, lots of hand painting, some beautiful sugar flowers and a generous splash of vintage nostalgia.

But while I have day off and am able to collect my thoughts, let me share with you an old friend. This was one of the first cakes I did to set my business in motion. A cute giant cupcake for my friend Leila's gorgeous little girls.

this sweet cake was a chocolate and vanilla cake with coloured fondant 'cup' and 'icing' topped with chocolate modelling fondant drizzle, pretty butterflies and sprinkles.

 The butterfly's were set to dry on cardboard to give them that floating look and the cute cherry is from red fondant.  Marbled fondant made a great  cover for the cake board.

Went down well at fun party in the park - everyone wanted a butterfly.

xoxo