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.
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.
Lily turned 5 this week. Where does the time go? She has already had two birthday cakes. This weekend we are having a party for her in Sydney at Bicentenial Park - lets hope the rain stops. I had promised a dolphin cake but I have run out of time. Maybe next birthday. So, I think it will be cupcakes. Don’t know what yet - they are my favourite things to make though so I’m happy.
Today I have been busily preparing cupcakes, gifts and boxes for some photos. I never really think how time consuming this is until it starts. I am really keen on getting my cake hampers sorted and looking beautiful. Of course, while I was doing that, I realised how little I have specifically for boys. Having two boys myself, I thought about what they both like - soccer -of course. So I made a few soccer ball cupcakes. I’m pretty sure my kids will eat them if nobody else does.
