I had a stall at my first every wedding expo last weekend. I didn’t really know what to expect so I think I probably over prepared.

 I took lots of mud cake samples as well - chocolate, white chocolate, white chocolate/lemon/coconut (yummy) and jaffa. My big winner were the cupcakes of course. Everyone loves cupcakes.

 I was running out of time the day before so I quickly did this bow on top of the cutting cake. Thank goodness for Planet Cake their great ideas!!

How gorgeous are these white paper cases for cupcakes. I think they are just beautiful.

The black ones are really lovely and so delicate.

I loved making this cake, especially the little ballerina!. It’s a first birthday cake. You can’t tell from this photo but she has sparkles in her hair and sprinkled over her tutu. The cake is vanilla buttercake layered with buttercream - pink of course.

I had some trouble though working out how to do ballet shoes. I think they might be a bit big but hopefully a one year old won’t notice.

These are my first real attempts at bride and groom sugar figurines. It took me a really long time to get the bride’s shape right. In fact, it took me longer than it did to make the cake. I was happy with them in the end. I had to travel with them for a couple of hours and was terrified the whole time that they would break! But, they both made it safely to the wedding.

I didn’t even get a proper photo of the cake. This is it still in the box I transported it in. Not yet at the wedding venue.

I spent the Australia Day long weekend cooking 150 cupcakes for a wedding. I was feeling pretty daunted before the task but, with the help of my mother-in-law Joan, we got 13 dozen white chocolate cupcakes cooked (with a few left over for us to eat - of course). I used the white chocolate cupcake recipe from the Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook which is pretty good.  I didn’t do it this time but I usually add frozen rasberries - it is delicious. The Crabapple Bakery’s carrot cupcake recipe is really really good.

Despite my weekend of cooking and eating cupcakes, I did a two tier cake for a friend’s granddaughters birthday. The cake needed to be delivered to an isolated property near Bateman’s Bay. As I was busy cooking cupcakes, Anthony did the delivery for me. It was supposed to be buttercream but it was so hot - nearly 40 degrees on Saturday, so I played it safe and used fondant.

Hopefully the birthday girl was happy with it.

It’s Ben’s birthday. He is only three and couldn’t decide on what cake he wanted. So we went with a pirate. This one is based on a skull and crossbones in one of Debbie Brown’s books. Her cakes are really fantastic - she is so creative. I did a course with her a few months ago and she was just inspiring and clever.

My latest cake was following a request for a brown skinned fairy. I really love the skin colour on this cake. I think it is very sweet for a first birthday!

This is my first attempt at a Thomas the Tank Engine cake. It was for a third birthday party. The birthday boy was very pleased.

I made a few little vanilla shortbread train biscuits to match.

I did this Naming Cake for a friend of mine. I have never been to a naming ceremony before and little Charli’s mum was very generous in letting me decide what to do. I thought I’d go cute and girlie. I based the rabbits on some characters in a book by Karen Davies called “Sparkling Cake Designs”. It has some lovely ideas.

I did a two tier cake - the bottom tier was a rich chocolate and the top was white chocolate mud and coconut cake.

What little girl doesn’t like fairies? I think they must be one of the most popular requests any birthday parent gets.