Sweet Things by Laura

Pink Ruffles & Peonies Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:52:02 +0000

My latest cake was made for Mothers Day. I was very indecisive with this cake. I definitely wanted to make a pink cake with white peonies, but I just couldn’t decide how to decorate the cake. After I covered the cake in pink fondant, I decided to finish it off with ruffles.

I love how this cake turned out. It is so feminine and perfect for Mothers Day!

xo, Laura

Tiffany & Co Inspired Cupcakes

Sweet Things by Laura — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:19:50 +0000

It has been quite a while since I have made some pretty cupcakes. I spend most of my spare time decorating cakes, but I have realised that my cupcake decorating has been neglected. I decided to redeem myself by making some Tiffany & Co. inspired cupcakes. I made three designs for my cupcakes, one with a pretty white flower, another with a silver key (just like one I have!) and the last one wrapped up like a present.

I was so happy with how these turned out, it has inspired me to come up with some more pretty cupcake designs, so stay tuned!

xo, Laura

White, Black & Red Present Box Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:30:25 +0000

My latest cake was made for my boss. I received a phone call from his wife asking if I would like to make a cake to celebrate his 40th birthday. Of course I would! The only requirement was that the cake should be white, red and black.

I spent a little while trying to decide on the design. I decided on a white square present box cake with black damask stencilling and a black and red bow.

I was terrified doing the black stencilling on the white fondant, because if you make a mistake, there is no fixing it! But luckily I didn’t have any problems!

I was so happy with this cake, and hopefully my boss enjoyed it as well!

xo, Laura

Planet Cake Course – Basics 105

Sweet Things by Laura — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:19:59 +0000

This weekend I finally returned to Planet Cake to complete Basics 105 – Double Tier Wedding Cake. The last Planet Cake course I completed was Basics 104 in September 2010, so I was very excited to return!

This cake looks like a two tier cake, but the base tier is actually two tiers covered to look like one. As well as learning to assemble and cover an extended tier, we also learnt new techniques such as piping, stencilling and creating a peony flower.

I was very happy with this cake, and cannot wait until my next Planet Cake course in September!

xo, Laura

Black & White Rose Wedding Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:14:48 +0000

My latest cake was made for some very good friends who recently got married in Korea. Now they have returned to Australia, they organised a reception for their friends and family who couldn’t make it to their wedding.

I was so excited when they asked me to make a wedding cake for their reception! After some emails back and forth, we decided on a white three tier cake with black ribbons and white roses with light pink centres.

I spent a few weeks making the roses, and was very happy with how they turned out! I actually got quite fast at making roses!

I was so happy with this cake and I hope my friends loved it!

xo, Laura

Butterfly Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:02:55 +0000

My latest cake was made for little Zoe who turned 3 on Friday.

Her Mum requested a butterfly cake in rainbow colours with some glitter.

The cake was a white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache.

I was so happy with this cake, and I hope Zoe liked it too!

xo, Laura

Hawaiian Thong Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:19:26 +0000

My latest cake was made for my lovely Mum’s birthday.

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

Wedgwood Rose Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:26:36 +0000

My latest cake was made for my Nanna’s 83rd Birthday.

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

Christmas Cake

Sweet Things by Laura — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:36:03 +0000

I made this cake as a gift for my Sister’s Boyfriend and his family.

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

Christmas Puppy Cakes

Sweet Things by Laura — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:22:13 +0000

These Christmas Puppy Cakes were my main project for Christmas this year.

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