Happy August – well the end thereof! I hope it’s been a happy one where you are, even if you’re back under lockdown (for what might seem like a million days?) I’m hoping that this post might spark a little bit of happy for you, especially if you’re a fan of pretty (girly) cakes… This… Continue reading Mermaid Ombré Two-Tone Buttercream Cake
I don’t often make a big deal about my birthday – especially this year, since my son turned two (?!?!!!) just a few weeks beforehand. But this past week I had a few friends ask to stop by on my actual birthday-day so I felt it was only right that there be birthday cake for… Continue reading My Birthday Cake {Vanilla Passionfruit Cake}
How is it (mid)February 2020 already?! Something to do, I suspect, with time speeding up as I hurtled through January in anticipation of the last weekend, when I headed up catering for our church’s annual camp. Then a blip of two weeks and suddenly Galentine’s Day was here again! What’s more, I had two other… Continue reading Pink and Gold Girly Time {Galentines Day 2020}
Are you keen to pipe buttercream like a professional? Or to smooth icing like a star?? Do you want a buttercream that doesn’t taste gritty, just smooth and not too sweet??? Then you need Swiss meringue buttercream in your life, and this post is for you 😉 I’ve been waxing lyrical about Swiss meringue buttercream… Continue reading Swiss Meringue Buttercream, Revisited {SMBC Recipe 2.0}
It’s that time of the year that our family celebrates three birthdays in the space of two days – in other words, an opportunity for an epic cake! And this year my lovely mother-in-law was having a Significant Birthday (21 of course!!). So this cake was definitely more of her thing than the other two… Continue reading Stencilled Fault-line Cake Tutorial {A Significant Birthday}
‘Tis the end of February – the end of summer – and the end of the month of V-Day {which was hard to escape with all the ads trying to sell us jewellery/chocolates/chocolate jewellery…} Did you celebrate Feb 14th with your Significant Other this year? N and I have had to share our Valentine’s celebrations… Continue reading Galentine’s Day 2018 {Stripey Ombre Buttercream Cake Tutorial}
Wet, cold weather has been swirling across the Southern Hemisphere lately – which you would personally know if you’ve been in the path of Cyclones Debbie and/or Cook over the past fortnight. Side note: did you know there’s a kind of science for naming cyclones?! I hope you’ve been able to stay high and dry, I can… Continue reading Celebrating with Chocolate Overload Cakes {Semi-Naked Watercolour Cake Tutorial}
My heart is full, my feet are tired and I’m floating on a cloud! But it’s not romance (though rest assured that is alive and well!). I’m talking about Galentine’s Day, which any Parks and Recreation fan could tell you falls on February 13th every year, the day before V-Day itself. This year I had the… Continue reading Galentine’s Day ❤ {Ombré Buttercream Shell Cake Tutorial}
Spring has sprung here in Christchurch New Zealand, and with it my interest in being outside keeping the garden tidy (might have something to do with the weeds, too…). That, and having been on holiday recently, means that I’ve had a bit of a cakey-bakey hiatus. But never fear – I have many lovely cakes from earlier… Continue reading The Bestie B-Day Cake Files
Summer is well and truly here (although someone should really tell the temperature to keep up!) but the wedding season has been going for a few months longer. I’m playing catch-up with posting about this cake which I made in November for a lovely couple – an engineer and an architect. For those not familiar with the irony… Continue reading Pretty in Pastel Pink Wedding Cake + Fruit Cake Recipe
Sweet nor'westerly 