Cupcake Party: lolly buffet

Monday, December 5, 2011

Wonderful Weddings

The last week was a busy one, One the line up was A Wedding Cake with 200 Dessert Serves, A cupcake Party event for 16 hens, Some Christmas Cupcakes, and Im sure a few more things in there that my mind has blanked on after a week of total sleep deprivation... The week started on Monday, I consulted my sketches for the Wedding cake. Could I really pull this off? Was I bitting off more than I could chew... Well I have paid an extensive amount of money in training... But 200 dessert serves????? I got all my prep work done... making flowers, preparing ganache, making syrups, torting cakes. Then the fun began, My kitchen was a swarm of Ganache come tuesday... I had to make 3 different flavoured ganaches... Raspberry and white chocolate Ganache, Bittersweet dark chocolate ganache, dark chocolate ganache, and white chocolate ganache... Sorry did I say 3 flavours? I meant 4! Any way, using my new found skills that I learnt at Faye Cahill Cakes A few weeks ago, I set to on the task ahead. Somewhere in between looking after 3 children (and a husband), between the hours of 8pm and 4am My work was being done. Day 1 Prep, Day 2 Ganache, Day 3 Ganache, Day 4 Cover, Day 5 & Day 6 Decorate! Well I finished the cake. Phew... but before delivering it, I had booked in to do a cupcake party on the same day (Will I ever learn when it is too much?... I don't think so ;)) It was so much fun and a good distraction from the impending "Cake delivery". Now I have come up with a term, It is called "cake anxiety". I am sure 99.99% of cake decorators experience this. It is the sickly nervous feeling (similar to being in love,) that you get a) when moving a heavy cake, b) when transporting a cake, and c) walking the cake into the venue d) until we hear feedback (reduced but still active) . I find us cake decorators can be extremely sensitive,whilst this feeling usually decreases significantly when the cake is sitting safely on the cake table, and instructions are in the correct hands, and the venue staff oooooh and aaaaaah over your cake. The feeling never subsides completely until I hear any sort of feedback from the person whom has ordered... (In fact I still have a few restless nights from cakes I made near the beginning that I never heard feedback from) Lucky for me in this instance, my cake anxiety was short lived with a Beautiful message from the bride the next day (A record!)

To finish the week off, I started on my Christmas decorations, well Christmas cupcake decorations anyway :) I am still yet to put up A Christmas tree... My poor Children, It must be hard to live with a cake obsessed mum ;)

(Oh yes I knew I would forget something).. I also set up a Toy Story Lolly Table, for the compettition winner on my facebook page. Anyway... Until next time, stay true, and keep on caking...

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Dessert tables and lots of cupcakes

Hello, how have you been. Im such a slack blogger.
So what have I been up to?
well here are a few pictures... with a few stories to go along with them...

A titanic Dessert table, Including; cupcakes, cakepops, iceberg jelly, jaffas, malteasers, ppcorn, lemonade, and some personalised lindt chocolate bars.

This was done for my Mr. 7. He had told me for months and months and months how he absoulutely must have a Titanic cake... So I start planning how Im going to make this cake. Of course he wanted it just before it sank when it was on a 45 degree angle off the cake board complete with people swimming/ drowning in the water. Now that sounds really great, but Cake at a 45 degree angle with no support underneath it is... well IMPOSSIBLE, and I thought the people drowning was a little morbid for a 7th Birthday dont you think?

So I sent out invitations that I masde to look like boarding passeS, AND i WAS THINKING YEP, mR. 7 is going to looooove this.

Then 4 days before the party he drops the first BOMBSHELL "mum I dont like the titanic anymore, I want an army theme party", to which I replied, "Too bad, I have already organised everything" lol .

Then after slaving over his cake trying to carve the shape, and almost getting RSI in my hands, finally I create it (pretty pleased with my efforts at 2 in the morning) On his birthday I show him his "MASTERPIECE"... "oh yeah mum it's alright, but.... you forgot the GYmnasium and the grand staircase, and where are the life boats? it's not really an exact replica mum, next time and you try to make me a nerf gun gake that actually shoots bullets then Ill be impressed"

Wow shut down by a 7 year old... that hurt... but it hurt more because I put so much love into it, and he didnt really care too much for it. It made me think how spoilt children are these days, and Its not his fault I have given him his whole life on a platter, but that was the wake up call I needed to realise enogh is enough..

Have you ever been shut down by a kid... its a crazy thing!?

Corporate cupcakes, I made 100 of these suckers, then realised I forgot to add half the butter and sugar, so they were more like scones rather than cupcakes, so that batch hit the bins, and I got to rebaking them the night before their 6.45 am delivery... (and they were perfect the 2nd time around)