Dannah's 18th Birthday: Moulin Rouge meets Monté Carlo

We recently had the opportunity to dig our itchy hands into the making of a spectacular 18th birthday party for a sweet young lady. In our culture, 18th birthdays are as big a deal as 21st birthdays (perhaps even more)... We didn't only get to make her cupcake tower, we also got to have fun doing crafty stuff and it was beautiful to see it all come together.
Exhausting... but exciting!

Part 1: The stationery by Milbreé moments (pictured here with cupcake samples):

Part 2: The Cupcake Tower... 

... the cupcakes:

... the cake:

... and now: THE cupcake tower assembled on our very versatile cupcake stand:

... the birthday girl and her cupcake tower 

(sorry about the photo quality - iPhone photo only):

 Part 3: Party décor and styling by Milbreé Moments:

 The glittery heart backdrop was hand-made by... us :)

Rentals from: First Scene and Centrepieces

  We had the idea of contracting a pro dance group for a special item during the party. 

The birthday girl's mom tried with all her might, 

but they all seemed pretty exclusive and elusive... 

so in true "CAN-CAN-do" spirit, Dannah's friends showed such graciousness 

and agreed to dress up as her can-can girls 

and gave a surprise dance number for her gustes:

 ... all three girls are wearing fascinators handmade by... us :)
(thanks to Dannah's mom for sharing the photo above)

We even got to be invited as guests - such fun!!!

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

The Princess is Coming (A Baby Shower)

Once upon a time, there was a mom-to-be and a dad-to be who were gifted with a beautiful (couples) baby shower party by their family. All their closest friends and relatives came to bless them with their love and best wishes... 

But this blog really is about the gorgeous shower party decorations :) 

Starting from the hand-crafted stationery designed by Milbreé Moments (aka., Aunty Jane):

the menu-card:

name bands and a keep sake from all the guests:

to the sweet little giveaways (hot-choc drink mix in mason jars):

the 'tablescape' that's oh-so-enchanting:

... to the home-made desserts / petit fours:

  

... and fluffy pink and white marshmallows all over the place:

... to compliment the rich dark chocolate ganaché cupcakes

... and cute little decadent mini-cupcakes:

... of course, there is THE ombré-inspired frilly princess CAKE:

... with hand-crafted (by mom-to-be) crystal crown cake-topper and crystal side-accent:

... sitting all pretty on this gorgeous cupcake tower stand:

... and to put them altogether: a dessert table truly fit for a princess!

We hope you enjoyed delighting your eyes on this blog post as much as we enjoyed putting everything together. 

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

(PS. We will be a little out of action in the next couple of months 

as we await the little princess...)

Lion Cake

ROARRRRRR!

This week's post is our amateur attempt at a 'realistic' 3D cake. We know we are light years away from our inspiration, Sylvia Weinstock, but hey - we've got to start somewhere! So when a lovely young lady approached us for her 21st birthday, we accepted the challenge in sort of a 'fake it 'till we make it kind of way'. We said YES with such confidence that can move mountains, even though inside we had no clue whatsoever 

how we were going to approach the job...

So, if you feel like being critical - no worries, we're already one step ahead of yah (wink wink)!  We also have a resident-self-taught-engineer-of-some-sort (Kenneth) who is our biggest fan and most valuable critic. He reckons our proportions are not quite right. 

We cannot disagree.  

 

The inspiration photo that the lovely client gave us was of a cake made of air-brushed butter cream-iced cake. We work with fondant. And haven't yet learned to work with air brushing. Someday soon... so for now, we gotta work with what we have. 

 The cake component is creamy milk chocolate mud cake all smothered in milk chocolate ganaché. We didn't get to weigh the final product, but get this - the ganaché alone weighed 2.5 kilograms!!! The mud cake is approximately 4 kilograms in itself. We used up 1 Kilograms of fondant. We hope she serves it up, it would be a shame not to eat all that cake - NOM NOM NOM.  

 Hence, given the circumstances, we reckon not bad for a first go. Most importantly, the client was happy with her cake. And that matters to us very much: 

"Thank you both so much for your effort and kindness. I will be sure to take a pic and show you what my party ends up looking like :)" - Rez, Auckland

Thank you for joining us in this sugary sweet journey!