Death by Chocolate

This is a chocolate sour cream cake,
filled and covered with chocolate ganache, and then
finished with a dark and white tempered chocolate collar.

The bow on top is also tempered dark chocolate, printed with a star cocoa powder pattern.

There were 2 versions of this cake; one that simply had some jaffas on to lend some colour, the other that was embellished with fresh gerberas.

Happy Birthday Nelli!!!

This was a birthday cake for a special girl who brings my family together every Wednesday night! Manelle (Nelli) is our local pub trivia hostess with the mostest, and it was her birthday in mid July.

This chocolate mud cake is covered in fondant, then wrapped up like a gift with a fondant ribbon and bow, and the cute girl figurine perched on the edge is sugar paste too. Check out her hair though - it's chocolate! Yummy!

Happy Toppers

These little guys are practice pieces that have been inspired by queries from people about cakes for specific events. Hopefully they will end up on a cake as some incarnation of these versions in the future!

The teddy (approx 10cm tall) was inspired by a request for a christening cake for a little girl, and
the martians were a result of a request for a science
themed cake... my little cute addition :)
They are entirely sugar paste!

Up, Up and Away!!

My boyfriend, Paul, and a friend of ours Nick are involved with a business called Flight Simulator 737, basically an aircraft simulator where the public can go to feel like they are getting a real life experience in an aircraft flight deck. This thing is amazing! In May this year they had a media day for the B105 morning crew, and requested some cupcakes for the morning tea.

This was the finished product of the flight themed, 42 strong cupcake tower. They were a mixture of fondant and butter cream cupcakes with handmade, sugar paste toppers of various types. There were planes, wings and clouds in lots of different combinations.

The cupcakes themselves were white chocolate; the fondant ones also had white choc ganache under the fondant, and the butter cream was vanilla.

They were a hit! That is, they were once people stopped feeling bad about actually eating them!

Elegant Cupcake Tower

This was the second part of cupcake boot camp; a tower of fondant iced cupcakes.

Each element was handmade from fondant and entirely edible. The cupcake stand itself was also iced in matching colours to compliment the overall finish.

Butter cream cupcake bliss

This was the first part of the second of my Planet Cake classes; a three day intensive course on cupcakes using various techniques including, butter cream, fondant, piping, figurine modelling and basic flower making.

The first finished product from this course was a board of various butter cream cupcakes topped with a range of themes from baby showers to kitchen teas.

Returning to the nest

This was a welcome home / birthday cake for two lovely ladies. The brief was 'something simple, colours that aren't too bright with stylised birds. And of course, you can't go past chocolate".

So this is was the finished product; round chocolate mud cake, covered in fondant & handmade sugar paste stylised nesting birds with crystal tail feathers. All but the crystals was edible, including the little chocolate nest.

Made with love for my cousins!!

Shooting Stars Present Box

After my attempt at my sisters cake in November
and my subsequent declaration that I loved it and wanted to learn more, my wonderful boyfriend and family got together and gave me a bunch of Planet Cake courses for Christmas. Needless to say, I was stoked!


This is the first of my Planet courses in February; a round present box bursting open with shooting stars.

This cake is chocolate mud cake, with chocolate ganache, covered in fondant with handmade fondant shooting stars and silver cashous.

Loads of fun to make, and proving popular for surprise birthday parties!