Lightning McQueen Cake

This creation was for one of my oldest and dearest friends. Her son was turning 3 and she wanted him to have the best birthday cake ever....Lightning McQueen. My first reaction after her reques was "OMG! Are you serious????!!!!" as I have never attempted such a cake and I avoided making it even for my own sons birthday in fear that it will not turn out right.

Anyway, I said I will try my best and this was the result.

The cake was originally an 8" square cake and shaped into a car. I divided the cake into 3 layers and ganached  it to achieve a smooth surface before covering with fondant. 

The details of the car and eyes were hand painted.

I loved this cake and it certainly was a pleasure to make.

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Eeyore Baby Shower cupcakes

Created for a baby shower. The mother to be sent me an image of cupcakes decorated with baby eeyore to re create (Credit to original design www.lindie.net)

Toppers sit on chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting.

Present Birthday Cake

Here is my fondant version of Richard Festen's Gift Wrap Striped cake.

Working with modelling chocolate requires a really cool room and with Sydney's humid climate in a non-airconditioned house, I will just end up with messy melted chocolate.

Instead I used a patterned mat to created the striped look and folded the fondant like a gift wrap and used bright red fondant to create the ribbon and bow.

I love this and it is so simpe yet elegant. 

This cake was actually for my nephew. I showed him the cake I made from Richard Festen's course and he loved it but he requested red and white to represent the colours of his favourite rugby league team.

Andre's Christening

I created this beautiful cupcake tower for my nephew's christening on the weekend. 

It was very much inspired by Richard Festen's Gift Wrap striped cake. I attended his course while he was here in Australia last month and since then I have been creating stripes and bows galore!!! I Love them!~

Cake is chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache and covered in fondant stripes.

Cupcakes are vanilla chiffon cupcakes with marshmallow icing.

I also created chocolate cupcakes covered in fondant as I have some left over ganache that I didnt want to waste. So this was for Andre's mother who was celebrating her birthday that same day.

You guessed it!...more bows!!

Dinosaur Birthday!

Created for my son's friend at day care. Design taken from the invite. I enlarged the invite 4 times on a photocopier then cut them out and used the cut-out to shape the fondant into dinosaurs.

Cake is white chocolate mud cake.

Manika Cakes by The Little Cupcakery

I am very proud to introduce the project that I have been working on the past few weeks. I was inspired by the talented creators of cute custom dolls online creating adorable dolls for adorable little people. I also love to sew but don't actually own a sewing machine but I can bake and decorate cakes. So after a lot of drafting ideas I came up with Manika Cakes by The Little Cupcakery  ('manika' means 'doll' in my native language)

These adorable cakes are perfect for a little girl's birthday, christenings and baby showers.

Manika cakes are made from moist chocolate mud cake iced in decadent chocolate ganache and covered in fondant.

Cupcakes are a perfect accompaniment to Manika Cakes especially when displayed on a tiered cake stand.

Manika Cakes can be custom made to match your little girls features from hair colour to freckles on the face.

This creation was for my niece's christening over the weekend. It was very heartbreaking when time came to cut the cake as it was too cute to demolish.

(For those wanting to use my Manika Cakes as inspiration for their own cakes please credit The Little Cupcakery as the original designer and creator....Thank you)

Superheroes Birthday!

My godson turned 6 this week and he wanted a superhero themed birthday cupcakes. I created Batman, Spiderman and Captain America cupcake decoration on a lolly stick. I used the lolly stick for my daughters birthday party for her 'flowerpop' decoration and I love the effect so much I used it for these cupcakes too.