Cheeky Monkeys!!

A couple of us friends have a long running saga about a stuffed monkey named, appropriately, Munky. Munky gets to go on many adventures as various members of the group travel, and has so far been to the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix (see below), Fiji, the UK, to name a few, and next week will be headed to Canada with me!

Munky's human, Toby, has been hassling me to create a Munky tribute for some time... So here it is!

Banana choc chip cupcakes with Vanilla Italian Butter Cream Icing. The monkeys, faces and bananas are all handmade from sugar paste.

My favourite bits are the flat monkey face, and the little guy holding his tail looking super happy :) Hope you like them T-man!!!!

Farewell Leo Old Chap!!

A dear friend of ours, Leo (cutting the cake below), has decided to head home to the UK to family and to pursue a new career path as an aircraft engineer. This is his farewell cake!

It was a carrot cake, filled with cream cheese butter cream, and iced with white chocolate ganache and fondant. Mmm!

The decoration is all handmade sugar paste, and the fondant was embossed with scrolls to look like wisps of wind. My favorite bits of this cake are the flags and the girls cute bum... I figured that a naked girl holding Leo's favourite football teams shield might be a winner :)

We'll miss you Leo the Lion!!

Welcome home girls... Hope it was a hoot :)

My baby sister Prue (bottom picture, centre) went on an 8 month world trip with her best friend (and my adopted little sister :) ) Lisa (bottom picture, left). Prue's farewell cake is the one featured in 'Humble Beginnings'.

This was the cake for their welcome home in July. I know I seem to have a preoccupation with birds on welcome home cakes, but I think it is a nice theme for a homecoming, and the girls love owls.

The bottom tier of this cake was white chocolate mud with white chocolate ganache, and the top tier was coconut cake with dark chocolate ganache... tasted like a bounty bar, yummy. The tree trunk and rolled roses were chocolate paste, and the rest of the decorations, including the owls were handmade out of fondant.

It was a hit, and the girls were well chuffed :)