Celebrate with cake

Having a public holiday in the middle of the working week feels surreal.  Wednesday all of sudden feels like Saturday and Thursday feels like Monday.....rather strange and disorienting.

Wednesday was of course, Australia Day.  A day to spend reflecting on how lucky we are to be living in Australia, good food with good friends and of course, in Perth, our once a year Australia Day skyshow.

Over on the other side of the country, the Dream Team at Planet Cake headquarters spent the week neck deep in ganache attempting the world record of reproducing a 1:50 scale version of the Opera House - in chocolate cake! 

The cake was unveiled yesterday on the steps of the opera house for sale to the public with proceeds going towards the Queensland flood appeal.

  Sunrise was on hand to capture the moment the cake was cut!

And for those of you who haven't been following the dramas of the making of this cake, here are some pics from the week of the giant opera house cake....

 Day 1 :  Here's Handi, helping and getting into the chocolate

Day 3 :  All ganached. Woohoo

 Day 4:  Go Dee!

Day 5:  The artists getting into the finer detail of things

(there is always time for a slice of cake!!)

photos courtesy of Planet Cake via facebook

Well done to all the volunteers and the team at PC!  A great achievement and all for a wonderful cause!

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Last week the much anticipated Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure screened over 3 nights.
We were particularly excited to see the Melbourne episode as Handi was asked to provide a cake for the surprise baby shower.   In case you missed it, here it is!

Photo from Sharnel at My Life - My Loves who styled the party at Bebe

  photo courtesy of Handi's Cakes



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This last week I also had the pleasure of making cupcakes to celebrate Jue's graduation.

A monkey with her graduation cap as well as Tiffany blue themed mini cupcakes

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More cupcakes for Amelia, to celebrate her soon to arrive bundle of joy!

and last but not least, 

A huge chocolate cake for Josh's Australia Day 20th birthday.  Complete with his favorite pokemon characters.

Don't they look like they're poised for action??

For those of you in Australia, hope you enjoyed the mid week holiday with those you love in this great country of ours!

A week of cakes for little ladies

Cake decorating is fun regardless of how you look at it.  The creative process of creating something pretty and delicious looking, is always special.  If you cook a fabulous meal, people will eat it, thank you but it doesn't compare to the sort of response you get from someone receiving a beautiful cake.  There is something about sugar and eggs and butter that make people extra happy!  Such was the case this week when Tracey ordered a cake for little Lucy's first birthday.

 Yummy mummy Tracey fell in love with Koko the cupcake fairy from Paper Eskimo and as every woman knows, there is always a little girl inside of us who secretly wants a pink fairy cake!

Tracey called me afterwards to tell me how wonderful those few seconds of anticipation were as her hubby opened the lid of the cake box to show her the cake.  Luckily for me, it was how she had imagined it!! To be exact, she mentioned something about almost having tears in her eye......it just made my day!
I hope Lucy had lots of lovely memories of the awesome party her mum organised for her!


Post script 2/9/10

I'm so glad Lucy enjoyed her birthday cake!!
Photo coutesy of proud mum Tracey via email

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 Moving onto more lovely ladies this week, was the Delectable & Sugar collaboration of a Rainbow pony carousel cake.  Requested by the birthday girl's best friend, the cake was a surprise to celebrate her 22nd birthday.   As this young lady is graduating this year, the cake also marked a special milestone.

Putting the finishing touches on the cake.  We worked and worked on this cake.....until the wee hours of the morning!
Thanks so much Jo!  I couldn't have dreamed for a better partner in crime!!  

We wish Diana an unforgetable birthday!

Postscipt: 2/9/10
From Shiyu via email:
It was awesome! Thank you so much for helping out! She was very very happy, and she keep hopping back and forth her room and fridge peeping the cake!  Thanks for everything. BTW the cake looked so good when the candles were lit! They literally looked like a glowing merry go round with real lights on! :))

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And then of course there was the lovely Elaina, who turned a very impressive 15 years young!  Ah....what you wouldn't give to be 15 again!  *sigh* 

I learnt all about pokemons and pokeballs for you Elaina!!  Pichu or Pikachu....that WAS the question!!

This one is definately Pichu.....I hope he can do some sort of impressive magical thing!  It sure looks like it was a really fabulous party!  Happy 15th Birthday Elaina, I hope it was Electric!!

photo coutesy of Leona via facebook

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And last but not the least, was Claudia's confirmation.  

Such a lovely tradition of celebrating the holy occassion with family, friends, food and cake!

All with matching cupcakes too!  Congratulations Claudia, hope the joy you feel on Confirmation day remains with you for a lifetime!

It was such an amazing pleasure to produce all these pretty cakes, so, a special thank you to the wonderful mums and best friends with such lovely ideas and made the special effort to make a difference to their loved ones this week!