The 'Happy' (Yellow) Birthday Cake

This week, one of Joy's workmates had her birthday. 

Her name is Tanya and it apparently means 'fairy queen'. 

Well, she is a fairy queen in many ways, and so fittingly... this cake: 

The cake is a milk-chocolate mud cake all smothered in milk-chocolate ganache.

 Tanya's favourite flowers are roses and she loves butterflies too.

Hence, the sugar butterflies fluttering about the hand-crafted sugar roses.

 Why yellow? Because she's always cheerful!

In Tanya's own words: "Oh, that cake! It's just exquisite!"

A very happy birthday, Tanya!

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

Eeyore 3D

Yet another FIRST for Sweet Art Cakes: a 3D cake. When we were first approached by the birthday girl's doting Aunty, the original plan was to make our usual round cake with the 3D sculptured icing topper. So, we gave her a quote for this. Later she came back with another idea - to make Eeyore 'the cake'! Great idea - except, we've never done one like this before...

After some discussion, we agreed to take up the challenge but still kept the agreed price quote. Our reason is that, even though we knew it was going to cost us much more in materials and working hours, we weren't too sure if we were going to be able to 'deliver' with the same quality as we always aspire to.  So, did we deliver? You be the judge: 

The flavour: milk chocolate mud cake smothered in milk-chocolate ganache. The size: at a total of two 6x6 round cakes, this cake is quite literally 'choc-a-bloc'!!!

  

Jane made some sugar flowers to prettify the whole look and add some other colour. And how sweet is that little butterfly sitting so pretty on Eeyore's nose?

Aaaaawwwwww!!! Melts your heart, doesn't it? And for a last glance:

Jane had the opportunity to deliver this cake to the birthday girl as we were on our way to Sunday lunch. It's always a special experience when we get to see the look on people's faces as soon as they lay their eyes on any of our cakes - awesomeness!!! 

Happy birthday, Aian! And we're pleased that you loved your Eeyore cake. Now, good luck getting yourself to cut it! LOL!!! Thank you for joining us in this sugary sweet journey.

Dinosaur / Jurassic Themed Cake

Kia Ora again! It's great to be back, and it definitely feels like we are well on track again for the year. So for a quick update on our recent adventures - Jane has just finished 1 month of her Small Business course, still a while to go, but she's learning a great deal and we're very excited about all the trade secrets she is discovering. Joy is 16 weeks pregnant today! Because we both work full-time, Joy has now once again deferred from her Masters degree programme - and this is so she can help Jane more with the our cakescapades. So, bring on the cake-athons!!! 

This week, Max turned 5. Here's the cakescape:

 For a close up look of the volcano (milk chocolate mud cake with creamy milk-chocolate ganache) baked from scratch (as always), with 5 sparkly candles stuck to the crater:

There was T-Rex of course, the king of the Jurassic jungle:

Dinosaur #2: Triceratops at the foot of the volcano:

Dinosaur #3: a thirsty Stegosaurus:

Dinosaur # 4: Brachiosaurus - a happy yellow one!

Dinosaur #5: Brontosaurus, frolicking in the water...

There you go, 5 hand-sculpted edible dinosaurs for a big 5-year old boy. Happy birthday Max! 

Thank you for joining us in this sugary sweet journey!

Elmo Cake

With 1/2 of Sweet Art Cakes attempting to finish a Masters Degree this year, and the other 1/2 also enrolled in a Certificate in Small Business Management at the same time, we've had to have a self-enforced down time in terms of baking and cake styling for the first quarter of the year.

But now, it finally feels like we are getting the hang of this new pace of life. It's busy - but focused. This week, we've had another reason to stay focused: a 2 year old boy, Gab, who adores Elmo.

Some photos of the cake...

The topper:

The reason for the celebration:

The cake:

Thank you for joining us in this sugary sweet journey! In the words of Gab's dear Mum: 'Till next time...'!

Norm's bible birthday cake

Daisy, Norm’s wife who is also a cake-decorator, asked us to make a surprise cake for his 82nd birthday. She wanted a Bible cake. Very fitting because he got baptized a few months ago. His favourite verse is Matthew 15:11, “Not that which goeth into the mouth that defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”

LOL moment: Just after we presented the cake, Norm told us he’s not cutting it, he’s keeping it. “I can’t eat the Bible,” he said. To which their home stay student replied, “But, Norm, it’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, it’s what comes out of it.” ;D

Suffice to say, we ate the cake!

Happy 82nd birthday, Norm! We look forward to making many more birthday cakes for you! Thank you for joining us in this sugary-sweet journey!