Barbie Cake for Charlie

A Barbie cake was requested by my granddaughter Charlotte. She was to be 6 on January 1. She requested it have colours of pink, purple and white. Now I am an avid Op-shop shopper always searching for a bargain and it happened that I found a great Barbie with pink hair. When  I got her home I gave her the full beauty treatment and she turned out to be the ideal centre star of the creation.

The cake comprised six layers of butter cake coloured pink, vanilla and chocolate sandwiched with dark chocolate ganache and covered with white chocolate ganache. the layers of fondant are frilled around her.

I loved making this cake - 'twas fun!

A wedding celebration in Albury

Matt and Gillian had been married six weeks before in Taiwan and the celebration today was held in Albury NSW Australia for family and friends who were unable to make the ceremony in Taiwan.
The cake a rich fruit cake and the figures and flowers made from fondant/ edible gum paste. The holly was added - as it is Christmas 2013.

BINGO!!!!!

A cake to celebrate the birthdays of Graeme and Caroline. I loved designing this cake - a little bit of fun. Actual cake is a vanilla butter covered with a thin layer of darh chocolate ganache and topped with fondant. All decorations are edible fondant

The Leopard Cake

Hayni's 'mother's group' first birthday.

Hayni a neighbour asked me to decorate a cake she had made, to celebrate her mother's group. 11 tots in all. 7 boys and 4 girls (spot the redhead!)

Cake covered with chocolate ganache and topped with sugar fondant. Figures made from gum paste. The girls are holding flowers and the boys footballs.

Prize Winning Chocolate Cake

House sitting in Redcliffe recently I decided to enter a chocolate cake into the cookery section of the Redcliffe Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society Show. So pleased that the  cake won second prize. The recipe is listed below:

NEVER FAIL CHOC CAKE
BUTTER – 90g
4 TBS COCOA
2 CUP SUGAR
1 CUP MILK
2 CUP SR FLOUR
4  EGGS
2tsp VANILLA
Heat oven to 180degC (160degC fan bake). Grease a 20cm round cake tin and line the base with nonstick baking paper.
Melt butter, add cocoa and stir until smooth. Add other ingredients in the above order. Beat for 2 mins.
Bake approx 1 hour in mod oven

The cake was covered with a dark chocolate ganache made with evaporated milk [not cream] - still very yummy and more economic!

Combined cake for 2 guys - 80 and 21 years young.

Customer contacted me by email and asked for a birthday cake for her son and father. No specifications so just did what I enjoy. I thought black and white were 'blokey' colours. I hope that they like Collingwood!
The cake is a 10 inch [25cms] round of three layers - chocolate, vanilla, chocolate covered with ganache and topped with marbled fondant.