Gold and Black 21st cake Melbourne

I had the pleasure of making Luke's 21st Birthday cake recently. The design is very simple, but the colours really make the cake stand out.

 

 It can sometimes be hard to decide on a design when planning a special cake for a male, but bold and simple is always an option that works.

 

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Have a great day,

Melissa.

                                   

Making a Bas-relief picture.

This picture was made using bas relief technique. Pieces of fondant are cut out and layered over one another to give a raised appearance to the picture.

It takes a bit of time to complete the image, but I think the results are worth it.

The cake was for Bon's 6th Birthday Party.

The character is Rex from Star Wars. He appears in the Clone War series.

 

 

Bas relief pictures are built by layering sections, working from the back to the front.

So with Rex, the first place you would start is the black covering under his left leg, remembering that it will need to be larger enough to fold over his leg at the top after you have layed down the white armor on that leg.

 

Wedding cake with hand made wedding figurines.

This very simple cake was for Claire and Charlie's wedding. The three tier mud cake serves 100 people a coffee sized portion of cake. Claire and Charlie had more than 100 wedding guests, but chose to have the extra cake in the kitchen for their additional guests, instead of having a lager wedding cake on display.

The wedding figurines of Claire and Charlie sitting on the top of the cake are hand made.
A simple bow finishes the back of the wedding cake and matched the bows on the chairs in the reception room.

The ceremony and reception was held at Merrimu Receptions in Murrumbeena .

Monkey Cake for Sebastian's 1st Birthday

This monkey novelty cake was a lot of fun to make. Both the head and body are all made of cake. The legs are chocolate truffle.

The cake was made to celebrate Sebastian's first birthday, so he is holding a little cupcake with a single candle.

Sebastian's mum, Alex said:

"Hi Melissa,
The party was great! The monkey was the star of the show. I was so sad to have to cut him up! Had to behead the poor thing! And the cake was delicious. Thank you so much.
Kind regards,
Alex"

Have a great day!

Melissa

Spy Party at Crystral Brook Tourist Park

 

Last September was Dominic's 8th Birthday. We celebrated at Crystal Brook Tourist Park with a  fun Spy Party. Clues were hidden all around the park. The children were given magnifine glasses and had to hunt for the clues. There was spy training to complete, codes to break, and finally a bomb to defuse before the Birthday loot could be saved.

Dominic's cake matched the theme. A little figurine of him searching for clues
 and some cake bombs! It was such a fun day and a wonderful way to celebrate a very Special Birthday!

Teddy Bear Cake with pink roses and cake pops.

This sweet little cake was made for Le Jia's 2nd Birthday.

       With the cute fondant teddy and the pink ribbon

roses, it is similar to the cake I made for Ava.

Le Jia's Mum also wanted to try some cake pops,

so there are 30 lemon cake pops arranged around a hand made stand.

The cake was an egg-free berry cake with a  raspberry and vanilla filling.

A lovely way to celebrate with two types of dessert!

Birthday cake and Cookies

A simple mud cake made for a very special customer of mine, which was made for her Birthday party.  These cookies below were packaged for her to take to school.

Making cake and cookies for Chole has become a bit of a yearly tradition. This is the third year I have designed treats for her.

Have a nice night,

Melissa.

My Favourite Cake

I had so much fun designing and creating Ava's Cake. This was both her First Birthday Cake and her Christening.

 The cake was designed to coordinate with  all the handmade items her mum made for the celebration. These included handmade invitations, favours for the tables and the decorations that were used at the venue.

The cake is Chocolate mud with ganache and fondant icing. The celebration lunch was held at the Eastern golf Club in Doncaster, with glorious views out on to the greens.

Below are the lovely photos and the very nice review I received from Ava's mother, Chris.

 

 

Hi Melissa

Thank you so so much for your hard work. Everyone commented on the cake. I'm eating a slice as I type (my 5th slice - 100% fat free didn't you say?). The cake turned out perfect! Even the chef at the Club commented on how soft it was to cut. He said it was one of the best made cakes he had seen in ages. He has left me the top tier and yes the little flower on top was just right! I just want to thank you once again. You will definitely hear from me again, plus all my family and friends now have your details too!!

Cheers

Chris xx

Elmo Birthday Cake

 

 A cute little Elmo cake made for Riaan's First Birthday.

 I love the way the simple yellow cake brings out the bright colours!

 

Mini Cake Decorating Class- Bethany's Party

What a lovely and successful afternoon we had at Bethany's 11th Birthday Party. Bethany in invited 5 friends. A little less than two hours later, each of them had created their very own Two Tier Mini Cake. The girls learnt how to cover their cakes with ganache, how to roll out fondant and cover each tier. They learnt how to stack their cake and finish each tier with a ribbon. The girls then made all the decorations for their cakes. Look at this lovely picture of Bethany's cake, and she is just 11 years old!!!

The girls learnt how to use different flower cutters, texture plates and how to model little animals, like Bethany's bird. All the materials the girls needed were provided by Elegant Cakes and Party Dates,including place mats and rolling pins, even boxes to take home their creations. Well done girls, and thank you for such a fun afternoon!  

                                                          

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Please note: We are booked out for both cake orders and parties for the rest of 2012.

 Next year we currently have some availability from Feburary 2013.

 

 

Children's Cupcake Decorating Party

This is Bilynda's party. Bilynda celebrated her 10th birthday with a cupcake decorating party at  home with 14 friends.

 

 The children learnt how to ice their cupcakes and how to use texture plates to create designs on the icing. They then made all the decorations to go on top of the cupcakes.

 

 I taught them how to make bows and roses, butterflies and various other flowers. I also brought along a selection of different cutter and tools for them to experiment with. As you can see from the  cupcake photos they were very creative, I love how each cupcake is a little different.

 

With 15 children it was a rather large party,  however it went very smoothly and we all had a lot of fun.

 

I received a lovely message from Bilynda's Mum after the party.

 

"Melissa, Just a huge thank you from all the girls at Bilyndas 10th birthday. We would all like to say thank you for the experience. Your party was fantastic, as well as your cakes deliciously moist. Thank you again" from Nicole

 

Have a lovely day,

Melissa

Jeep Birthday Cake with hidden geocache.

This Jeep cake was for one of my husbands friends. He lives in Canberra, so the cake was made in Melbourne and my husband took it with him on the plane to the party.

 My husband helped me design a special board for the cake to sit on so it would be stable enough for the flight. We also had to take into consideration that the cake would be hand luggage, so it either had to fit under the seat or in the overhead locker.

 The plan was to have the Jeep cake driving onto a log. So on one side the wheel was resting on the log and other other side looked as if it had driven over it.
 Hidden in the log was a tiny little geocache container, which was signed by all his friends.

 

Geocaching is a type of treasure hunt. The aim is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches. The geocaches are listed online and you find them using a GPS or smart phone. Sometimes they have a tiny toy in them, which you can swap, but they always have a little log for you to write in. It's a great way to get out and explore and have some fun. They hidden all over the place.

Anyway, as you can see from the photos, the cake made it to Canberra in perfect condition and was a bit hit! The guys spent the rest of the day 4 wheel driving and looking for some more geocaches.

Have you tried geocaching?

Cute 21st Birthday Panda Cake

This simple Panda cake was made epecially for Jamie. Jamie celebrated her 21st Birthday Party at the Palace Hotel in Camberwell. The Palace Hotel has a lovely private fuction room upstairs, with it's own bar and seating.

The Panda cake was three layers of Chocolate Mud cake with Ganache and Fondant.

The cake was transported to the venue in a custom designed box and set up for Jamie upstairs.

 

 Jamie asked if I could deliver this cake to the venue, so we didn't actually get to meet.

I was very happy to hear that the cake was exactly what she wanted.

You can read Jamie's testimonial here.

 

 

 

Pingu's Birthday Party Cake

Making characters come to life in fondant is difficult, but so much fun! Here are Pingu and his friends. These little characters were made for a  very special 1st Birthday Cake in Melbourne.

 

 Pingu is laughing because he is so happy he caught a fish. All the other characters are on the way to Pingu's Birthday Party. The characters were designed to be easily removed from the cake, so they could be kept as momentos.

 

 

Have a great day,

Melissa