Easter Show Appreciation

So when i was a kid my mum used to drag me around the Sydney Easter Show looking at cake. Now i would have been about 10 at the most and being smushed into a cabinet looking at cake that didnt look edible (to me) was not very exciting, its nothing like being smushed into a showbag line at all. So now i must live with my mother gloating at me that NOW I like to look at cake. However our opinions on what we like have and always will be different!! And so i bring you some of the cakes that i liked from the 2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show.... (in reverse order because that's how they uploaded!)

this cake was just so cute and actually quite detailed.

i love the tiny food and drinks. down to the ice in the esky!!

I LOVE this wedding cake. who would have thought black would make great wedding cake!!

on a side note i got pushed into the cabinet by the lady behind me while i was trying to take photos of this cake. The things people will do for cake! even when it is behind glass!

This is just a survey of one of the cabinets, the purple cake in the bottom left hand corner i like but i find interesting, in that it has a hat box shape on the bottom and then a square on top with the circle cut out. it just didnt sit right for me. but i cant quite put my finger on it


this bunny was a crowd favourite. very cutesy looking and was extremely large!!

i love this mini cake not just cos mini-cake is AWESOME!!

but also because it is ancient history themed which is one of my other passions!
It had so much work in it for its size.

"Log in every 3-4 hours to avoid procrastination"

Where does one get a prescription for these?

Okay so its not technically cake but I'm being stalked by cupcakes and theses ones were just too cute to pass up! They're made out of paper tole (all the way down to the tablecloth!!)

I love the detail and technicality of it, the little buttlerflies on the cupcakes and the tea cups and saucers have their own little cupcakes on them!! How cool is that?

30th Wedding Anniversary

So my parents have been married for 30 years this weekend. We had a great lunch out with all of our family and friends. and I made them a cake. I dont know if I have been more nervous about making a cake, since its my MOTHER and she was a cake decorator!! Apparently their wedding cake was oval shaped so thats what she wanted and it was decorated with my first attempt at single roses that i made in cake decorating class a couple of weeks ago. I also tried a new recipe for strawberry cake, it was nice but still needs a bit of tweeking. It didnt taste strawberry enough for me.

and here is a close up of the roses i made with my leaves.