Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was going to attempt to make a multi-coloured rainbow lollipop cake - well here it is.

In the making (click play…so appropriate for this post I think)

Melting white chocolate (cake flavour) and pretty rainbow-coloured batter all lined up in a row.

Layering the batter (note all the Fitness First class tables in the background. If you eat as much cake as I do...you're going to have to work out)

The final result ta-da!

The inside. It reminds me of Rainbow Paddlepop Lions.

Tiffany approves. She also reads Bride to Be Cakes in her spare time.

This cake took...
3 days (1 day for baking, 1 day for ganaching, 1 day for decorating)
6 different cupcake batter colours (pink, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)
and 7 great Lollipop songs: 
Aqua - Lollipop
Lil Wayne - Lollipop
Mika - Lollipop
Ghetto E - Lollipops
The Chaordettes - Lollipop
Leslie Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbow
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop

Now all we need is a little more sunshine...

Rainbow Bright

I came across this gorgeous rainbow cupcake on a blog named Katie's Kitchen. I love the concept - it's like biting into a rainbow surprise.

Feeling extremely inspired (and maybe a tad ambitious..?), I'm going to make this into a cake and make it look like this! 

Wish me luck...

Wee Love Cupcakes and SATC2

Any occasion to spend time with close friends is a good one. Especially if the occasion is watching the much anticipated Sex and the City 2 at Gold Class with girlfriends. Carrie-ing on (sorry I couldn't resist, tehehe) my recent obsession with cake decorating, I took the liberty to do some research online and enrolled myself and my girlfriends in a cupcake decorating workshop with Sharon Wee.

So with the cupcake course booked, I was really looking forward to this day.

We had the 3 C’s down pat that day: Cupcakes, Carrie and Captain Torres.

The highlight of the day was definitely our cupcake course (SATC2 a close second). Sharon was amazing and she customised the course just for us. After 5 hours we were all beginning to look like pros. *Claps*

Hard at work making our Tiffany and flower cupcakes...

We love Tiffany's...Christine and I with our Tiffany and Co sunnies and cupcakes.

THESE CUPCAKES ARE NOT FOR EATING…

And for those who have seen SATC2, who could forget the cupcake scene.

p.s. Charlotte's cute apron is by Jessie Steele. Get yours before it's sold out!

Flour Child

I honestly think my calling in life is to create pretty things. And I couldn’t think of a better way to start a blog about how sweet life is, then to blog about creating one of the sweetest things in this world: CAKE.
Given, I had never decorated a cake before but I have baked many-a-cakes (and desserts). And I was in good hands, having enrolled myself into a one day cake decorating crash course at the Paris International Cooking School.

The Cake: White Chocolate Berry Cake (baked from scratch, of course)

The Class: It was straight in to making the royal icing and piped roses and leaves and basic linework. I think I need a little practice here (hence no photos of the finished result)…and I was starting to re-think my ‘hidden’ talent.


But then we moved on to decorating our cakes and that’s when the fun began. Who knew there was so many ways to decorate fondant? Chalk, powdered, liquid and gel colouring becomes a playground for tinting fondant and stencils, moulds and cookie cutters assist to create just about anything imaginable.


The Results:

Oh *hearts*.  It had to be pretty…
I coloured fondant modelling paste in shades of pink, yellow and green and used cookie cutters in 2 different sizes to create my flowers. The buds were created with silver candy balls. YUM.

 

The Inspiration: Marc Jacobs Daisy (well, not really – but I think the flowers look awfully like Marc’s daisies)

Can’t wait for my SATC2 day with girlfriends. We’ve booked ourselves into a cupcake decorating course with Sharon Wee. We heard she’s fantastic. Watch my cake space!