Peppa and Ellie

More cakery from the last few weeks...

Drippy chocolate ganache over a vanilla-bean frosted cake

Another elephant & spots-themed baby shower!

I matched the ellie's ears and the tiny spots to Rachael's baby shower invitation.

A rich, dense and moist carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

Peppa Pig themed, for a little girl's 2nd birthday!

Of Princesses and Planes

It's been a month since my last post! Geez!

If you've been following the bakeshoppe's Facebook page you'll know what I've been up to lately... if not here's a quick pictorial rundown:

Jeremy the Jet Plane cake for a little boy.

I marbled the fondant for a "sky" effect (it's clearer in the first pic)

My Cake Pop class with family and friends!

Uber Oozy Chocolate mini cake.

With hand-stamped edible ink text.

 Princess cupcake for my 4 y.o. niece, thanks to a tutorial from The Cupcake Gallery.

A friend of mine said she kinda looks like a Kardashian!

(The cupcake, not my niece...although Anna can be a diva sometimes!)

Who's ready to go a-huntin for some Easter eggs?

And Cartoon Easter Bunnies!

I was experimenting with Sweet Sugar Belle's 20-second icing method.

So! That's what I've been up to the last couple of weeks, in between ferrying my visiting in-laws around town. And this week's a busy one as well, can't wait to get started!

'Tis the Season Part 1

Well then!

With Christmas only SIX weeks away, we're starting to take orders for our Christmas products!

First up: PERSONALISED Gingerbread cookies!

 

These come in Gingerbread, Chocolate-cinnamon and Chocolate-ginger spice.

Vegan and Gluten-free options available (for extra).

These make great gifts for your loved ones and friends, colleagues, kris kringles, the boss whom you hope will grant you a year-end bonus...

And they can be posted interstate or overseas as well!

Packs of Christmas-themed cookies (star, snowflake, Christmas tree, candy-canes) available too.

Email me at bake@buttercup-bakeshoppe.com for orders and enquiries!

Hope & Glory

Some pics of what we've been up to in the last couple of weeks...

Orange buttercake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream

Wasn't for a specific occasion, just a special treat for the family.

And boy it just melted in your mouth!!

 

Made these recently for Pink Ribbon Day.

 Raised quite a bit for the McGrath Foundation! :)

 

Here're a couple others in the Typography series...

And the highlight of my week...seeing Buttercup Bakeshoppe in print!!

Our little cheeky chick features in the latest (Summer 2011) issue of SHOP 4 Kids!

Woohoo!
(If you must know, it's chocolate-cinnamon with royal icing. Yums!)

Seeya this Sunday at the North Melbourne market, where we'll have some lovely surprises, including a new citrusy Orange & Lemon cupcake! Summer bliss!

What a week it's been...

Phooooeee what a week it's been! Last week I reckon I made just about 10 kilos of cake in various shapes and forms - cupcakes, cakepops, round cakes, mistakes, you name it! I think I've gone through about 5 kilos of flour, 15 eggs,  3 kilos each of butter, sugar & icing sugar. Phew!

I made an anniversary/birthday cake, products for the North Melbourne market, a hundred Babycups for a wedding, cake pops for another birthday, yet more cakepops and a mini RV cake (the size of my palm) for a friend, and Buttercups for the weekly Guava Bean order.

Have a look:

By Wednesday, I'd made the RV cake, and then promptly realised that it was burnt on the outside because the inside took so long to cook. SIGH! Bake to the KitchenAid...

By Thursday...

 

 The letter 'i' fell out of alignment, but it worked perfectly with the heart below.

Just added a 'u' and I made lemonade!

 

 It was also the client's husband's birthday, so the placard on the other side held the other greeting.

 Friday...

Made the little blossom babycups you see above in peach, pink and cream as part of another client

And then Sunday was market day with Peek Sweets with about 100 babycups in assorted flavours, 20 cakepops, and about 70 gingerbread people (yes, we're pretty politically correct here at the Bakeshoppe. Why should men have all the fun of being dismembered and consumed limb by limb?!) Plus I also made a mini RV cake (silly me, forgot to take a photo!) and cakepops for my darling friend Wenona.

Celine, my partner-in-crime made whoopie pies, an Amish-American cross between a cake and a biscuit with marshmallow in between. Apparently, the story goes that kids cried "Whoopie!" whenever the cake was made because it tasted so good. I loved it - all dark chocolatey goodness with choccie chips, but I gave the marshmallow middle a miss - I've never been a fan of marshmallows.

All in all, a terrific week. And I'm COMPLETELY spent.

Eat your words

Living with a partner who loves design has its advantages. For example, I've been exposed to many areas of design - furniture, interior, industrial, typography - where I would not normally have tread. And I've been really excited about interweaving these areas with baking.

Anyhoos, I'm pretty stoked I got to try this out recently - melding typography with cake art. I don't really think it's been done before (correct me if I'm wrong), and I'm really happy with the results:

 The cake was stamped with individual tiny letters - took me about an hour, even with help!

Flavour: Chocolate mud cake with cookies n' cream buttercream

Exterior: Dark chocolate ganache and white fondant

To put the cake into context, it was an early celebration for my sister's birthday. She was here for a visit, and I wanted to make a special cake for her. Since she's a journalist, and words are her world, I thought a nice personal  letter would be extra special! (Of course, she did say afterwards that she'd expected a "newspaper" cake - psssshh, what, have I got no imagination?!)


This really takes custom-made cakes to a whole new level, no? It's great (I feel anyways) because it's really personalised, and you can put pretty much anything on it - thank you, happy birthday, even a marriage proposal! All to make a significant moment even more unique. Plus I love the fact that each cake has someone's personal journey etched into it. :))

PS. It was delicious to eat my words.