planet cake lace piping and basics 104

hello everyone, well so much has happened in the world of cake decorating for me in the past few weeks. Firstly i attended planet cake's basics 104 which as always was the best day of my life! We made the 3 tiered cake with orchids and a twist. It was a great class since we learnt so much such as how to set up a centre pole and how to make sugar orchids. Here is my cake...

A few weeks later i was back at PC for specialty lace piping. This was by far the best course i have taken at PC. I learnt so much and definitely left, feeling like i could pipe on a wedding cake! So if anyone needs a wedding cake with piping, please let me know, cause i really really want to make one now!

We worked on many skills in this course such as transferring an image to a cake, brush embroidery, pressure piping, colouring and making royal icing, covering styrofoam (the cake is actually styro), making a monogram but above all the most valuable lesson was confidence in myself that i could do it!

Here are a few things i piped. Let me know which one is your favourite.

All in all i had such a great time, the last photo is of my class, everyone's cake was amazing! It was so much fun and i really love piping. I always thought piping is a skill which only practice can make prefect. I also think it separates good cake decorators from amazing cake decorators. There are so many tricks to avoid piping, but in the end piping makes for such a nice cake. I can definitely do with more practice but maybe in about 30 years (time for loads of practice but before the geriatric shakes come) i can be as good as anna maria (my PC teacher and piping goddess).

More cakes, more clothes and 3 birthday's

Hi everyone, well so much has happened since i am so lazy and update this blog every 2 months! I wish i was like liebe and updated every few days, but med doesn't permit it (oh who am i kidding, it's not like i'm studying, instead i've been baking and shopping!)

So this first cake was a carrot cake with white chocolate ganache, made for my friend annaleise for her 30th birthday. I wanted to make a contemporary but pretty cake, so i opted to attempt hand painted swirls. The effect was nice however i still need to find a way to make it look neater and more like a printed finish rather than clumsy.

These birthday cupcakes were for my cousin and best friend amy. The 50's inspired ice cream parlor cupcakes with fondant cherry's were inspired by hello naomi's designs which are very girly and retro. Hello Naomi is a company out of newcastle who make really cute cupcakes for all occasions, i highly recommend her, her designs are like no other and very cute.

The third birthday is my own! These pictures were taken at high tea at the observatory hotel, kent st sydney. The observatory high tea was the best high tea i've had in sydney. It beats the tea room in QVB and the victoria room in darlinghurst. I loved the atmosphere, the staff but the best thing were the sandwiches, i even asked for more! For $49 per person, high tea was served with 3 finger sandwiches, fruit and plain scones, cupcakes, pannacotta, chocolate layer cake, fruit tart the list goes on. Furthermore i asked for an iced tea (since it was a very hot day) and got the best iced tea ever, the lady made it for me (it wasnt even on the menu) but it was amazing.

Finally there are these 2 dresses which i love. Both are 3.1 phillip lim, i ended up getting them from the LA store since they are ridiculously expensive in sydney. I love the sequins on this dress and the style was very flattering, it actually looks much better on a person than on the rack.

The first one will be worn at my birthday party this weekend, i will post up more pics and cake pics then, since i am doing planet cake 104 this weekend. I am so excited, i feel like i haven't been to PC in ages. The second dress was just for work and weekends, i love the scalloped edging on the sleeves, they remind me of when chloe did scalloped shorts and blouses. I love phillip lim but sorry phil chloe is still my favourite designer. If only i could afford it...

Anyways just a quick post since i have a sticky date pudding in the oven and some butterscotch sauce won't make itself.

Until next time,

xoxo

ps do people read my blog?