Nana's Birthday Cake

Nana's cake was put together very quickly with Hoppy that matched her birthday card. The trouble was that it was so hot the icing kept melting and running down the sides. But it did taste very nice. Hoppy was layered with brown, red, pink and white fondant and Hoppy Birthday was written in fondant.

Angela's Special cupcakes

Angela's last day deserved something special so I made her cupcakes with an A. Chocolate mini cupcakes with white chocolate icing and white choc flakes with an A cut from the Cricut Cake.

Lions and tigers and bears Oh NO!

Hunter in red clothing


deer in the trees, boy fishing

the hunter with his red clothing and gun slung over his shoulder

boy by the rocks fishing fish in the lake

back of the cake deer hiding behind trees

Different views of the cake.

My wonderful Son in Law Jarred's birthday was Friday an as he turned 30 they had a party. My daughter decide to tell me very late Friday night that he didn't have a cake!!!!! Could I make one and gave me the recipie for a mudcake. Now I have never made a mud cake except when I was real small and they were actually made from mud! Well she gave me a wonderful recipie that she said was a never fail one. it came complete with directions for the icing as well. So after going to town to get the ingredients I came home and 'whipped up a chocolate mud cake' actually it went really well and the cake tuened out beautiful. It actually tasted nice as well. While it was cooking I thought of the design I needed to do for Jed. A real kiwi bloke he loves hunting and fishing and although we tease him about his bambi shooting he does love his hunting. On this theme I decided to do some 3d trees deer fish and a hunter and fisherman. Well now if this was in paper it wouldn't have been so bad but having said I would do a cricut weekend and having a Cake I thought I would do it all in fondant with the Cricut Cake. Well roll out the fondant and really that went well as well as getting it on the mat. I cut the 3d trees, the deer, the hunter, the fish and the little boy fishing then left them to dry which I did think they would do fairly quickly but I hadn't bargined on the day being so hot. Well to cut a long story short I glued the trees together with sugar glue poked the deer in the mud round the trees made a lake from the blue fondant I made and put the fish in it stood the hunter by one of the trees and voila it was done! (well not quite that easy but yep it was done)

Kelly the cake artist

I spent the weekend with my good friend and up line StampinUp Demonstrator Julia. Her daughter Kelly and I spent Sunday night playing with the cricut cake. Kelly made cupcakes and we cut decorations out of fondant on the cc. Kelly did a fantastic job of decorating the cupcakes. I had so much fun as we rolled the fondant sooo very thin and then watched as the Cricut Cake cut it out. Kelly then had the job of using the picker to pick all the tiny bits out of the butterfly wings and flowers. Kelly is awesome and has a lot of talent. I can see her getting a Cricut cake to decorate her cupcakes. My grateful thanks to Julia for putting up with me for the weekend and for letting Kelly and I loose in her kitchen.

A paper Cake for Sandra

Sandra Boston from Kiwi Cakes came to Tauranga on Saturday to demo the cricut cake machine. I had the privilage of being her assistant and watching as she cut words and intricut detailed cuts and laid them on the cake dummies we had been supplied with. Not to be outdone Friday night I made Sandra a cake in paper to show her how it can be done both ways. I used a sheet of A5 paper and cuts from Cake basics cartridge and this is what I came up with. The Happy birthday is layered onto the shadow of the same words the trim at the top is the scalloped border welded and the trim at the bottom is the negative of the scalloped border. the butterfly the paisley and the heart are cuts I wanted to try so I added them to show the cuts.

More Pies

Now I have taken to liking pies well cooking them anyway. I have decided the Cricut Cake is an awesome machine for someone who has Alzheimer’s as you can name your things you put in the oven and when your times rings you can read what they are. ROFL Anyway obviously I don't want to do what I should be doing as I have been making pies again.

Dino cup cakes

My very first cupcakes. I made dinosaurs to go on the top of them. They went down a treat at work.