Choo Choo!
I was contacted to create a christening cake for a little boy… the brief was to use blue, white, keep it simple with a train on the top. So that’s what I did!
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Blossoms and butterflies for Isabella
This cake was created for a little girl’s christening. It brought together various elements of other designs I’ve done in the past. It features the Sweet Tiers signature blossoms and a cascade of hand painted butterflies, finished off with a sugar bow.
Samantha’s Princess Pillows
A 2 tier version of my princess pillow cake created for an adorable little girl’s 5th birthday.
The pillows were carved from chocolate mud cake, filled with Lindt chocolate ganache.
The crown is made from sugarpaste and airbrushed gold. All jewels are inedible… every girl needs a bit of bling!
Blue Blossoms
This christening cake was designed with the soft hues of blue for a baby boy in mind, something simple and elegant but suitable for an infant at the same time.
The blossoms were hand made and individually painted / dusted with lustre dust to achieve the graduated colours on top.
The height of the tiers was kind of un-intentional (!!) I didn’t realise how ridiculously high they were until it came time to cover them with fondant. Luckily I was quick and it all went well (phew!). Kind of ironic as many times I wish I had those extra few ever elusive centimeters!!
Planet Cake Course – 2 Tier Magnolia
This is a cake I completed at a Planet Cake course held in Melbourne – a 2 tier wedding cake which features a spectacular magnolia and bamboo stems. Skills covered in this course included covering a square cake with rolled fondant, stacking the cakes, the coloured wrap,and making the flower and bamboo.
Everyone experimented with their colours in making the wrap around detail and as you can see we had a fantastic result from all the students!
Ava’s Christening Cake
From start to finish this job was an absolute pleasure … my client liked what I had done with the China Doll, so I adapted the flowers to suit a pink christening cake for a gorgeous little girl. This design was based on a beautiful invitation which featured birds and a featured hand written message on the front.
The dove was made from modelling paste. I didn’t quite know what to expect with the figurine as I haven’t made anything as large as this for a topper. I made it well ahead of time so it had plenty of time to dry. I did have visions of wings falling off but tried to push them out of my mind!!
Chocolate fudge cake soaked with Cointreau and filled with dark chocolate ganache.
Lulu’s Fairy
This cake was created for a gorgeous little girl, Lulu. Her christening theme was rainbows and fairies and so this design was born! The bottom tier is chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate ganache filling. The top tier is hummingbird cake with a white chocolate ganache filling.
Ellie
Chocolate fudge cake soaked in Contreau syrup and filled with a luxury chocolate ganache was the basis for this little number…
My dear friend Georgia christened her youngest and I wanted to create something soft and pretty, just like scrumptious little Ellie! Hand sculpted flowers and a full sugar bow finish off this design.
The teddy has a styrofoam core – her limbs and clothes are made from sugar. The trickiest part about dressing her was , believe it or not, the bow on her head! It was teeny beeny!
Panayioti’s Christening
This cake was created to celebrate the christening of a sweet little boy, Panayioti. The cake has a hand made gumpaste teddy atop the top tier and fondant stars. Stripes feature on the bottom tier and his name is made from fondant blocks – placed on the board.
Two tiers of chocolate fudge cake, filled with dark chocoalte ganache and covered with rolled fondant.
Julia’s 1st Birthday
I was so caught up in getting my daughter’s 1st birthday celebration ready that I literally left decorating her cake until the last minute. Yes well, how the heck did that happen??
So I found myself at 11.30pm whipping this little number up – all I knew was that I was going to do something in a chocolate and pink colour scheme so I started to knead fondant and before I knew it – voila! Julia’s 1st Birthday cake was done.
I guess sometimes it pays not to over think a cake design.. maybe I was just lucky with this one!!