A few steps back....

Although it is the christmas season and I have some super cute cookies and cakes to show you (pending their being finished)....I thought I'd take this opportunity to show you a couple of cakes I did in November.

This was my mum's 'birthday party' cake, as opposed to her 'family birthday' cake, which you can find here.

So this is meant to be champagne bottle spilling over with the cake being a pile of bubbles. Not sure if that is obvious to you, it wasn't to some. The cake underneath is caramel cupcakes (that's how I got the bubbly effect) covered in caramel ganache - yummy!

Originally her cake was going to be a mini topsy turvy with the champagne bottle on top and the bubbles flowing down the side. However. The November humidity was not kind to this cake decorator who came home to find the ganached tiers collapsed against the inside of her awesome cake cover. But, small mercies, they were not yet covered in fondant and it was only monday night, so there was still time! That cake is now wrapped up in individual portions in the freezer (caramel cake with Baileys filling and caramel ganache).

I've been wanting to try a cake that looked like a cloud for a while. When the first cake (literally) fell apart I figured I'd make lemonade (figuratively speaking - I was way too exhausted to get through anything other then the cake).

Happy holidays my small but treasured following!