Cricket Cake, Hughlala!!!

25th April 2011: Here's a cricket-themed birthday cake for a cricket fan. This is aka the LOL cake... thank goodness it's for a friend's hubby's bday! ;D

There's a story to this, so please bear with the longer than usual post.

Three weeks ago, our dear friend, Radda, e-mailed us. She'd like us to make a cake for her hubby's birthday. They live in Napier. So, how to send the cake to them? We looked at the possibility to courier. A few days later, she told us they were coming up here in Auckland for the Easter and that we can make the cake then. (In my mind: Okay, so maybe she's planning to throw a party for hubby with Auckland friends.) So everything's good so far...

Come Monday morning. Cake's on the cake stand... so cute, and ready to picked up. :) Yes, everything is good!

Text convo:

Me: Hey, the cake is butter-free. Just in case you guys aren't into butter. :)

Her: Oh, good! Coz I'm planning to keep it until 23rd May.

Me:  O.O

oohhh, everything's not so good!

LOL! We had such a big laugh! It was great catching up with them!

Well, they ended up having a party with their Auckland friends that night to celebrate his birthday... because there's a cake... a month in advance! ;D

So, here's the chocolate-flavoured cake with vanilla butter(not!)cream and fondant decors:

Advance happy birthday, Hugh! ;p

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Flutter by Butterfly Cake

Someone left a message on my phone, and I was so happy to know that it's from a friend's friend who happened to open our facebook page while browsing. (Oh, facebook, how i love you!) Her baby, Anica, is turning one. She said she loves the look of our cakes, and asked me if we can make one for her darling baby girl. (Awww! Thank you!)

So she sent us this image to base our cake design on:

Flowers and butterflies then. ;p

Here's the cake:

And we made a dozen and a half cuppy cakes to match the cake, too:

Cake and cupcakes are all chocolate-flavoured with chocolate glaze and buttercream frosting.

Happy 1st birthday, Anica!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

ps. We are finally up-to-date with our blog posts! Yuss!

Dylan's 1st birthday cake

March 2011: Jungle-themed cake for the birthday boy, Dylan. And, it's his first birthday! Awww!!! 

You might be thinking right now, "Jungle-theme???" ;p

We image-googled "jungle-themed cakes" and pretty much every photo is of a cake with a collection of miniature animals of different kinds. So we thought, "hmm... why not choose two animals and just work with that?" ... so there you go, you have a baby giraffe and a monkey! ;D

So, some more photos, eh?

Happy birthday, dear Dylan!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Bridal shower Rose Cake

March 2011: Rose cake we made for two beautiful sisters' (Hollie and Rebecca) joint bridal shower. They got married a week apart. (",)

This was our very first time making gumpaste roses. And, they looked like ROSES! Happy me! *pats herself on the back and says to herself, "Well done, you!" ;D

It's a butter cake with a hint of rose-water, filled with rose-vanilla buttercream, fondant-finished.

Congratulations, Opeti and Hollie!

Congratulations, Hans and Rebecca!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Limited Edition Mother's Day Mini-cakes

If you're looking for the sweetest most delightful mother's day present for your mum, LOOK this way! We have designed three mini-cakes available for orders between now and  the 4th of May (Wednesday). But be quick, as we can only bake so much in one week-end, there are only 10 places available! 

Dimensions: 4in high by 4.5in diameter round cake. Approx. 4 coffee slices.

Mix and match the following flavours and designs:

Flavour 1: Rose Butter Cake. 

4 layers of butter cake with a slight hint of rose water with vanilla buttercream filling.

Flavour 2: Decadent Chocolate. 

4 layers of moist choc-fudge cake with white-choc ganache filling.

Flavour 3: Vanilla Sky. 

4 layers of moist vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream filling  

Design 1: Pure Love - white luster sugar flowers with pearl cachous accent on white fondant-finished cake. This stunner is as elegant as the top tier of a glorious wedding cake!

Design 2: English Rose - handcrafted sugar roses on an ice-blue fondant-finished cake. This cake is simply gorgeous! Just ask our friends from Available Light, Ltd.

Design 3: Cherry Blossom - Inspired. The name says it all. 

 

At only $30 each, these mini-cakes say 'I love you, Mum / Grandma / Aunty/ Wifey' in the sweetest most uniquely delightful way! 

But wait, there's more! Just to make our very first promo event even sugary sweeter, here's a competition for all our fans/friends/friends of friends. If you placed one order out of the 10 available places, you are in to WIN YOUR $$ back! All you have to do is tell us why your mother / nanna / aunty / wifey is the best mum in the world! If we think your story has the most 'Awwwww....',  then you're our winner!

Terms & Conditions:

1. Family members and immediate relatives of Sweet Art Cakes by Milbree Moments are not qualified to enter the competition.

2. Judges' (that's us) decision is final. 

3. Winner will be announced on the 1st of May. 

4. Entry into competition allows us rights to publish your story here on the blog and on our facebook page. Of course, we'll consider use of pseudonyms if you have confidentiality issues. 

So place your orders, and get writing! Mother's day is only 3 weeks away. 

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!   

Ps. Pick-up from 7am on Sunday, the 8th of May (Mother's Day).  Address will be advised upon receipt of full payment.

An engagement cake for Denise and Dee

March 2011: Here's a sweet treat we made for a beautiful couple's engagement party. When I say beautiful, I mean, beautiful! They must wonder why I keep staring at them when I get to see them. ;p

It's a vanilla cake with vanilla-white choc filling and vanilla buttercream frosting; fondant finished; gumpaste anemone flowers.

Congratulations on your engagement, Denise and Dee!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Cupcakes for Canterbury

5th March 2011: Here are photos of the cupcakes we made for Delish Cupcakes' "Get your bake on for Canterbury", with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Canterbury Earthquake Appeal. For those of you who aren't aware of what happened... On the 22nd of February, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near Christchurch causing extensive damage to the area and leaving so many people in need of assistance. For more info on this, please click here.

I know that NZers are doing their part to help in anyway they can. And because we are into baking, we were very happy to learn that Delish Cupcakes was organising the said event.

Here are our cuppy cakes:

Even the muggy drizzly weather that day did not stop people from dropping by and grabbing some yummy sweet treats!

The Bake sale was able to raise $13,328.80... there were lots and lots of people who baked and helped on the day! It was so much fun and heartwarming to have been part of this!

 

To see Delish Cupcakes' blog post on the Bake sale, please click here. To see more photos snapped during the day by Available Light Photography, please click here; and by Jel Photography, please click here.

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Strawberry & chocolate birthday cake

November 2010: November is my birthday month, and a friend organised a birthday party for me. {Awww! Thank you, Barbosa's!} I rarely celebrate my birthday, and as much as I love planning/organising parties for others, I shy away from doing one for myself. ;p

We (well, mainly my sister, Joy, and a friend) made this no fuss cake... simple and sweet! And, I love it!

It's a cream-cheese-filled white chocolate mudcake.

Strawberries dipped in chocolate:

Choc decors:

...and here's the cake, about to be eaten!

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

Tatanda's princess-themed birthday cake

November 2010: Princess-themed cake and cupcakes for Tatanda's 6th birthday. She loves tiaras!

We also made cupcakes to go with the cake:

Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!