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!!!!

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!