Tea by the River

Sometimes, girls just need to have a break.  So, what does one do when you meet up with your girlfriends on a lazy sunday to talk the way that only girls can?

Have high tea of course!

The location for this tea event, was the Pennisula Tearooms in Maylands.  Situated next to the historic Tranby House on the Maylands Pennisula, it boast a lovely serene view on the Swan River in a very uncommercial setting.  It's like taking a step back in the past and arriving on the porch of a colonial English household, where the lady of the house is actually French....

Although the Parisian high tea service was more miss than hit, it was nevertheless very charming to be sitting by the river with champagne, pouring tea out of silverware and sipping out of Royal Doulton china teacups.  Somehow its like being at the sort of tea party that little girls imagine.......

The Parisian high tea included 2 rounds of tea or coffee and a traditional service of cut finger sandwiches, scones with jam and cream and petit fours and cakes.  The champagne - Chandon Vintage was provided by us.

It's good for you to look at pretty things...expecially if they are edible!

Unfortunately we chanced on a particularly busy weekend and so waited an unacceptable amount of time to be served....with little explanation.  My advice, it's a wonderful place to go if you have plenty of time and wish to have a stroll by the lake, take a photo by the weeping willows and on the jetty.   And if by chance, the teahouse is not busy, grab a table and just enjoy the day!

Hope you all had a marvellous weekend!

The rest of January

Perth had the hotest January on record this year. Heat and chocolate are just not good friends and figuring how to get a 15 kg chocolate ganache covered cake from A to B without it becoming all mushy was very challenging to say the least.

Here they are, sitting prettily awaiting the finishing touches to the ganache...... at this point it was around 38 degrees celsius outside.

First off, was the fabulous occasion of Maree's kitchen tea. Close to 50 lovely ladies bearing gifts, an outdoor patio and bar, filled with lots of food, lots of bubbly and lots of cake, made for the perfect way to spend a Sunday morning!

A pretty design in the bride to be's favourite colour. Chocolate mud cake for the teapot and vanilla cake for table.

Maree REALLY didnt want to cut the teapot! The cake was a surprise for her and so she took the teapot home.

Also on Sunday, Adrian and Siobhan got married and celebrated with a dreamy early evening cocktail by the river at Matilda Bay. The cake looked so very beautiful at the venue I didn't want to leave.


Assembled on site, this massive extended 3 tier cake consisted of chocolate, orange blossom and white chocolate cake, adorned with fresh flowers and finished with a pearl lustre and just a few French dragees.

Here it is from another angle,
The flowers in the backgroung were in 1m tall vases and looked simply stunning. Many thanks go to Paris at Planet Cake for the referal and design. It was a great honour to produce this cake on their behalf.