Kyle's Pirate 5th Birthday Cake

What a 2013 it has been!!! 

We hope everyone is settling back smoothly into routine.

We have had an eventful end of 2013 and an even bigger start to 2014.

We'll tell all when we blog about Janey's wedding to Arvee...

Mean time, here's what we've been up to

in between wedding planning, full time work, choir practices and nappy changes.

  

Kyle's brother attended the centre where Joy worked at,

and that's how we have come to know Kyle's family. 

Here are is our fave shot of Kyle's Pirate-themed chocolate mud-cake:

And some cupcakes to match:

(Ps. No, this is not the same Kyle as the one we made an Old Macdonald Farm cake for)

Thank you Kyle and family, for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!

  

Chris' Wine Bottle Cakescape (70th)

Yet another first for us. We love a challenge! 

Often the cost of making a cake does not take into account (at all) the extensive time 

and immeasurable effort we pour into our creations.

And we blame nobody else but ourselves for this -

we have, countless of times, found ourselves carried away

and diverting from what's meant to be a simple cake.

The true reward is simply proving to ourselves that we could!

Here is a perfect example of the above scenario: 

The box is the cake. 

The wine bottle (a replica of a real NZ winemaker's bottle) is made of fondant.

 The grapes and grapevine leaves were hand-crafted. No silicone moulds!
(Ain't buying overly-priced moulds for one-off jobs!Hmp! LOL)

Thank you, Chris & Penny, for joining us on this sugary-sweet journey!

Giane's Birdcage 11th Birthday Cake

Our little cousin isn't so little anymore... She's 11! 

Giane is Nathan's (Winnie the Pooh Cake-scape) big sister. 

Her parents asked for a small and simple cake,

and that was the plan, until...

an idea struck! Then we couldn't help it.

Here are our 3 fave shots of the birdcage-themed red velvet creation:

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