Confessions of a Masterchefaholic

I love Masterchef. Love it, love it, love it.

So after the reappearance of the Chocolate Delice on the show a couple of weeks ago (as an immunity challenge for Dani, up against Eamon Sullivan),  I decided I'd take it on to serve at a family gig this weekend.

It didn't quite end up looking like the Masterchef version.

My version

masterchef version

In my defence, it tasted super awesome and the family loved it. I think I got the elements right, there was just a couple of .....ah.......presentation issues. The big shocker for me was the FOUR  hours it took me to pull it into this pathetic state. For those of you out there not glued to Masterchef every night at 7.30 (except Saturdays) - this took the contestants 90 minutes to complete (and to a much higher standard might I add).


I think the next season of Masterchef is well and truly safe from my presence.

Princess Castle

A castle fit for a princess! This palace belongs to a family friend whose fairytale 21st party was this weekend. The cake is all choc-mint with lots of milk chocolate ganache. The castle is all edible except for the towers. The photo doesn't capture it very well, but the bricks, windows and tower tops have all been painted with shimmer, which looked so pretty! I barely stopped myself from painting the entire cake with shimmer.

Today I'm working on my entry for my local show and my birthday cakes (that's right, plural).

Have a great Sunday!

If you like pina coladas........

New Flavour!

This is a pina colada cupcake with lime buttercream and in my, and my trusty tasting team's opinion (read: my husband's opinion) they are delicious!

I love lime flavoured stuff but if lime isn't your thing, I think pineapple or coconut buttercream would highlight the flavours in the cupcake perfectly. Alternatively, just a coconut cupcake with the lime buttercream would be a summertime winner.

The rest of these babies are headed to the wonderful peeps I work with - also known as my extended tasting team :)

xoxo C

Fairyland

This fortnight is all about fairies and princess castles.

I made the these two fairy princess' with blond curls in likeness of two adorable 3 year old twin girls whose birthday it was last week. The fairies along with the flowers were cake toppers for a cupcake tower featuring at their birthday party.

Two years ago, I had the honour of making these adorable little girls' christening cake, one of my favourites.

Here's those cute baby girl bears up close....

I'm currently working on a super pretty princess castle cake for a 21st this coming weekend - more photos to come!!!


Ooooooo, I'm also working on several new flavors at the moment - I'll keep you posted on how they go!!!

The Zoo

I have lots of super cute ideas for baby cakes, unfortunately I do not have an abundance of babies around me. So instead I aim to pass off possible baby/child cakes as 'adult' cakes. I have found this to be easiest with animal cakes.

I made this first cake for a very close family friend who has been a second mother to me and who love love loves giraffes. It was her 60th last year so I whipped up this little cutie.

Harold (as I started calling him) is a combination of cherry ripe mud and jaffa mud - two very popular flavors. Everything about his cute little self is edible and every part of him got eaten, starting with his head following his decapitation........ gruesome huh?

Only a few weeks before Harold's creation and quick demise, I got to practice my animal making skills on an 18th birthday cake - an elephant. There's a story. A lady I used to work with had made her son an elephant birthday cake when he was younger but, at the last minute, had decided to spice things up and made the elephant green instead of grey........ It turned out to be a cake no one forgot and a story that is still told! Hence I was tasked with recreating the green elephant in 3D for her son's 18th.

I had a lot of fun with this one, if not a few terrifying moments with the trunk structure (I have often heard cake decorators say it would be useful to have an engineering degree when trying to design cakes and ensure the structure's integrity) I heard this poor guy was decapitated too but alas have no photo evidence.

I really really want to try a baby cow (seems cuter then saying calf) I have some awesome cowboy ideas that would work perfectly with a farm themed party or baby shower. I'm just saying.......