Monday, May 9, 2011

{a lighter workload}...

I have been fortunate to have had a helping hand over the past 2 weeks and thus my workload has been alil lighter...it's AMAZING as it gives me time to do other things that are still about the business!!

Hope you all had an amazing weekend and a HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all those who are Mums! Hope your family spoilt you and made you feel special :) I had a pretty busy weekend...just like any other...here are last weeks cakes...
the SPACE THEMED CAKE.


I loved the lil' blue guy...and was inspired to make this cake for MAZ's birthday....


cute lil' red!


The cake was a triple layer 6" strawberries and cream cake. Haha LOVED making this cake!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAZ!


Next cake was a cake for Ange and Andy's baby shower...CUTE!!




This cake was a triple layer 6" round chocolate mudd cake...with a baby toosh and pea-looking toes...awwwwww!
CONGRATS to ANGE & ANDY!!

I thoroughly enjoyed making this next cake...inspiration was provided by the client...


 The client wanted something like this, with the palm trees


Also to have a flag like in the image above.

I drew these up in Illustrator for the cake.



my line work...each section is for a colour...then once that's done...apply colour...


then ready for printing!

This is what I came up with...



Just felt like adding more and more things...but my husband had to stop me ahahaha! This cake is called a Jr SLAB and measures at 14" x 18" single layer of chocolate mudd cake covered in fondant.

HAPPY 6Oth BIRTHDAY Sonny Papalii Taimalelagi!!

Last cake of the week is called 'the SLAB' and measures to 14" x 31.5"  and is a single layer chocolate mudd cake, covered in fondant and decorated with edible colours  painted on.

I was given a few images for inspiration and came up with this:


Giant tiki statues on booth ends of the cake


The centre was inspired by 'ie lava lavas...


Painted hibiscus with edible gels etc.



Here is the end product. There was another flag that was inserted by the client behind the flag. It was a lot of fun making this cake. I love painting on cakes...and so I got my fix with this cake :) This cake is a heavy one and would need alot of boot space to transport it :)

A lot of fun as always and fully love doing what I do! More exciting cakes to come this week also stacks of cupcake orders. I don't post up cupcake photos unless it's something out of the ordinary. Will be opening up to bigger cupcake orders in the weeks to come!

[the build] is coming along...alot of red tape and homework for me and my husband...but fully worth it all! I am sooo looking forward to having the kitchen made, set hours for work and set hours for home. It's all blended at the moment but all in good time! I have a recipe to share with you all sometime today. I need to get onto my sons birthday invitations and birthday to plan!
Have an amazing week y'all
xox

Sunday, May 1, 2011

{more and more cakes}...

Just before I proceed with today's entry...I would love to thank HGG, SMOOVE GROOVEZ & SECURITY of ONE SAMOANA for interviewing and posting it up for the NATIVE SPOT this week! Bigg love to you all and what y'all do! xox



Last week, just like any other - I have been able to create are more interesting cakes! The cakes are getting alot more intense...and what people want to know is...'CAN YOU MAKE IT?' I like to say 'YES'...check out these following cakes...

Birthday cake for HEIDI. I love to find creative ways of doing things...so this is something like a picture pop-up cake. I have made many...but each one is different.





This cake is a triple layer 6" round covered in pink tinted fondant. Happy Birthday Heidi! Hope you liked it :P

The BEN!10 cake for a little guy who turned 4years old this weekend...
the inspiration...now the cake...

10" chocolate mudd cake - double layer andBEN10-ified! Happy Birthday KEIYAN...love the name :)

I was asked to make a CALL OF DUTY cake...and had looked online for inspiration but found that most of the cakes were black and I like to keep the colour (added to the fondant) down to the bare minimum for the clients and others eating the cake. So I came up with this cool concept. Below are photos of the inspiration and then followed by the cake itself.

Also this cake had a unique cake board that I designed...check it out...


Parts were cut out and etched.

The inspiration...


dry earth... 


an awesome peace of weaponry, the M1014



dog tags...

and this is what I came up with...with huge props to my husband who made the M1014...he's got madd skillz!!








A lot of fun...a lot different to the others out there. The fingers were the easiest things to make on this cake ahahaha! This cake is called a Jr SLAB measures to 12" x 16". Everything but the board was edible...Happy Birthday KRAZY KARAH...that being his online name I'm assuming :)

Last cake of the week is inspired by a NEW ERA cap. Check it out...




this is what I came up with...





So much fun..Happy 21st Birthday KUMAI PAEA!

My Easter photo's! I had been having problems with my memory card and a lot of my photos of the fire truck and the pug cakes were ruined...so I thought that I had fixed the problem but I hadn't. I took photos of my Easter goodness and when it came time to take a look at them...they didn't come through. I blame the cheapo memory card...that was only bought last minute the night of my demo! SO...I will find sometime this week to recreate a few things that were made for Easter! Not only for your viewing pleasure but also coz they were AWESOME!!!

There is much going on this week with orders and MOTHERS DAY on Sunday! I should have a few things to show for sale for MOTHERS DAY! If you are needing something specific for your Mother or Motherly role model, wife, partner etc...please contact me early...to ensure I can accommodate your needs.

Have an awesome week y'all!

xox