The American Lego Man birthday cake

We thought we'd post this today... as it's only fitting (today is America's Memorial Day). ;p

Faye (Jane's uni friend) asked us to create a birthday cake for her fiancé who loves lego man, is American, and is very patriotic! We were ecstatic making this as we haven't done anything like it before. :D

So here's Mr Lego Man in the making (by Joy):

And the finished product:   ---   *drum roll*

Oh, man, aren't we glad Obama looked like Obama! ;D It's cute!

Happy Memorial Day, America! :)

Happy birthday, Garrett! We hope you liked the cake. :p

and, Congratulations to you and Faye on your upcoming wedding! :D

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Mum's day cuppy cakes

Cuppy cakes we made for mums at church... our late mother's day pressie for them. {We were so busy leading up to mother's day, we weren't able to bake cuppies to give out on the day.}

Vanilla and apple-cinnamon cupcakes with white/dark chocolate ganache filling/frosting.

Better late than never, right??? :D Happy mother's day, everyone!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Shelley's "Legal" cake

Sugary-sweet birthday cake for Shelley as she turns legal. :)

Happy 18th birthday, Shelley! :)

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NOMmy apple-cinnamon birthday cake

NOMmy cake for a dear friend's son's 16th birthday.

This was a bit of an experiment for us... we've never done apple-cinnamon cake before. {But after we've baked, and tasted sample, we wondered why we haven't thought to include this in our cake flavours. It's so NOM!}

Cake layers: apple-cinnamon with a hint of vanilla

Filling: Vanilla buttercream

Frosting: Vanilla buttercream, white chocolate ganache on top. White chocolate collar, and dark chocolate ganache tips to finish the look.

Happy birthday, Ben!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

ps. We loved this flavour so much we ended up baking cuppy cakes for us to feast on! :D

Chocolate ruffled birthday cake

...and another birthday cake yet again for this week! Chocolate fudge cake, choc frosting/filling, & a gumpaste fantasy flower to finish the look. :D

Happy birthday, Aunty Vanessa! We hope you liked your two cakes! ('hope your workmates did, too.) :)

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Pure Love cake - Vintage this time!

A birthday cake we did this week for a wonderful Mum who was given one of our limited mother's day mini-cakes by her sugary-sweet daughter! :)

It's based on our mother's day "Pure Love" cake design. We used vintage colours this time.

It's a rosewater butter cake with rosewater-vanilla buttercream frosting/filling inside. Fondant-finished with lustre sugar butterfly and flowers.

Happy birthday, Aunty Vanessa!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Granpa's rose buttercream cake... Yes, Rose!

Here's another fun experimentation!

Rose buttercream cake. We don't have the right tip to make the buttercream rose (we've ordered just now! :p)... but we think it's pretty just the same. :D

It so happened to be Grandpa's birthday weekend that time, so yes, we gave it to him. Grandma liked it (so Grandpa did, too). haha!

Happy birthday, dear Grandpa!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Turquoise ruffle buttercream cake

We have a few ruffle buttercream cakes to make but we've not done one before, so we had to practice first. Here's our first try...

Turquoise ruffle buttercream cake:

This was inspired by a few cake blogs (it's a very popular cake icing technique for a number of reasons. It's simple. It's NOM. It's frugalicious!). However, being me (Janey, who likes order, balance, patterns, the list goes on), I wasn't that ecstatic about how the top part of these cakes are usually iced. So here's our take on icing the top of the cake:

Not bad for a first try, I hope. :)

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English Rose Mother's Day cake

8th May 2011: We've been busy baking over the weekend! Adorable mini-cakes for sugary-sweet mums! Here's the third design:

English Rose mini-cake - handcrafted sugar roses on an ice-blue fondant-finished cake. This cake is simply gorgeous!

We were quite excited about making this because all the orders for this design are for 'Rose-Butter' flavoured cakes (i.e., 4 layers of butter cake with a slight hint of rosewater, with rosewater-vanilla buttercream filling). Here's the inside:

To all you mums out there: We hope you had an awesome Mother's day, and that you got spoilt heaps! :D

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Pure Love Mother's Day cake

8th May 2011: We've been busy baking over the weekend! Adorable mini-cakes for sugary-sweet mums! Here's the second design:

Pure Love mini-cake - white luster sugar flowers with pearl cachous accent on white fondant-finished cake. This stunner is as elegant as the top tier of a glorious wedding cake!

 

 

 

 

To all you mums out there: We hope you had an awesome Mother's day, and that you got spoilt heaps! :D

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

 

 

Cherry blossom-inspired Mother's Day Cake

8th May 2011: Well, we've been busy baking over the weekend! Adorable mini-cakes for sugary-sweet mums! Here's the first design:

Cherry blossom-inspired mini-cake

To all you mums out there: We hope you had an awesome Mother's day, and that you got spoilt heaps! :D

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!