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.

Brobee Cake

Ok so for my friends sons birthday i made a Yo Gabba Gabba cake for him.

He loves this show a lot - personally cannot watch more than 20 seconds of it.

If you dare check it out here is a link.

I can't say the idea came out of my head because well i stole it off the net.

But i did vary mine a bit. He has attached arms and his fur doesn't

go all the way down the edges of the cake.

But i think he looks really close to the real deal!!

The Wicked Wizard of Oz

So we went to see the Australian cast version of the broadway musical Wicked!

which was AWESOME!! If you haven't seen it please do

www.wickedthemusical.com.au

(which is also where i borrowed the photos from)

(lucy durack and amanda harrison)

(Amanda Harrison as Elphaba)

The woman who played Elphaba has an amazing voice

- ok the picture is of Amanda Harrision but we saw Jemma Rix play the role and she is

AMAZING!!

And so there is cake!! I made this Wizard of Oz cake a while ago now for my friend Jo's Birthday.

We all dressed up and gave her a surprise party! She was so excited. She was Dorothy obviously.

Me? I'm definately a horse of many colours!!

I'm sorry but the cake landed on the Wicked Witch of the East!

I just lurve the lil munchkin lego people with flower-pot heads!!


and just so you can see the legs of the Wicked Witch of the East
- she even came complete with red shiny shoes which i painted
-poor Barbie hope she didnt mind having her legs pulled off and painted black and white

Toot Toot... Train Cake

So my gorgeous nephew turned 3 in December. and although he is thoroughly enamoured by Ben 10 now, he is also enraptured by Thomas and anything train related... this has resulted in hours of me watching Thomas the Tank engine!! So here is the finished cake. kinda upset this is the only finished shot i took of it. mostly because it was boiling hot and the icing kept melting and i finished off decorating it in the garage (which is sooo the best place to take cake photos let alone decorate a cake!!) Also my inner perfectionist just was not happy with the colour of Thomas, the blue just didnt seem right for my liking. But he loved it! Which is the main point right?

This is Dan enjoying his cake.

He wanted to eat Thomas' face and the candle just had to go in the funnel!!

sorry mom

ok so theres this site that is www.textsfromlastnight.com/

(its an awesomely funny website, check it out)

and this one made me laugh in cake kinda way

610: I was thinking about baking his mom

"sorry you found out i was sleeping with your son" cupcakes

ok so maybe i thought it was funny

Ahhhh!! Vampires

awww aren't they just too cute!!

they're gluten free, and come complete with fake blood....

i think they got a little hungry maybe!!

close-up - too cute for their own good

these are vampire frogs. its how they turned out, and thats the story i'm sticking with