My Mum is going to Hawaii in two weeks, and I wanted to make her a Hawaiian themed cake.  I decided to make a thong cake.  I used the template in the Planet Cake book as a base, and made some frangipanis and shells to go with it.

The cake was carved from a 9 inch square white chocolate mud cake and was covered in white chocolate ganache.

I was very happy with this cake, and I think my Mum loved it as well!

xo, Laura

Nanna has a collection of Wedgwood plates on display in the window of her unit, so this year I decided to make a cake covered with some Wedgwood blue coloured fondant, some white piping and a large white rose.

My Nanna is currently in hospital, so we had a small family gathering in her hospital room and shared some cake.

Get well soon Nanna!

xo, Laura

It was a six inch fruit cake covered with white fondant. I used one of my left over puppies from my Christmas Puppy Cakes and I created a Christmas tree and decorated it with gold cachous. I made a present and covered it with red disco dust. I loved the disco dust so much, I created a red disco dust covered band and wrapped it around the bottom of the cake. I also covered the ‘Merry Christmas’ message with red disco dust!

This was my favourite cake out of all of my Christmas projects!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas with your family and friends.

Best wishes for a fabulous 2012!

xo, Laura

I learnt how to make the puppies in class at Cake Decorating Central.

The puppies were made out of fondant and they were placed on top of 4 inch fondant iced fruit cakes.

I made 10 of these cakes for friends and family and I was very happy with how they turned out!

xo, Laura

I based their design on some gift tags I purchased on Etsy.

I’m not entirely happy with these cookies – they were decorated in a huge rush! 

xo, Laura

I learnt a lot creating this cake including working with rice crispy treats and styrofoam.

I was very happy with my Giant Nutcracker Prince and it made my house look very festive  

xo, Laura

The class was ‘How to Make a 3D Ball Cake’ and because it is so close to Christmas, we decorated the cakes as Christmas baubles.

The cake was carved from two 7 inch square chocolate mud cakes and was layered and covered with dark chocolate ganache.

I thoroughly enjoyed this class – Michelle was a great teacher and I can’t wait to book into some more classes with her!

 xo, Laura

I loved making this cake, and I am very happy with the result!

Our next project is a Nutcracker Prince Cake, which stands at over 75cm tall! Stay tuned for photos!

xo, Laura

I made the phalaenopsis orchids over a week during the evenings and baked, ganached and decorated the cake over the weekend.  The pot plant cake was carved from two six inch chocolate mud cakes.

I was very happy with this cake, although it was quite a challenge transporting it to work on the bus!

I think Amanda liked the cake and had a lovely birthday.

xo, Laura

Ever since I purchased my copy of the Planet Cake book, I have wanted to make the Giant Cupcake.  For some reason, I found the idea of making this cake quite daunting.  So because I was making a cake for no reason at all other than to just make a cake, I decided to go for it.  If it all ends in disaster, I can just throw it out!

I decided to use the instructions in the Planet Cake book and changed the design by making it more like Andrea’s SweetCakes’ Giant Cupcakes.

I used an 8 inch round caramel mudcake and milk chocolate ganache.  I found the sculpting of the bottom of the cupcake really easy, but creating the top using the offcuts was a bit more difficult.

I was so happy with the end result and can’t wait to make another one!

xo, Laura