Good luck Wouter & Frederique!

The best man of the wedding of Wouter & Frederique - to be held on the 3rd September next weekend - ordered this cake as a 'Welcome Back' cake. They live in China now - hence a red cake- and will be moving back their after their Dutch wedding.

Red, corresponding with fire, symbolizes good fortune and joy in China. Red is found everywhere during Chinese New Year and other holidays and family gatherings. The stars on the cake are a nod to the chinese flag, which the couple have also in their wedding 'button', a heart with four stars.

I do wonder what colour her dress will be? Red? Or just red roses....

Marzipan babies anyone?

When researching marzipan fruit I came across these incredibly life-like marzipan babies, can you believe it (don't forget I was researching fruit!)?! I think they are so freaky because real babies are never so small, and their life-likeness is just amazing! When I make baby shower cupcakes I always wonder who is going to eat the baby? Anyone? Or does the mum-to-be just keep it in a box?!!

Cupcake party!

My good neighbours and friends, will shortly be moving to Norway and what better way to say Cheerio than with a Princess party? I turned up with a box of cupcakes and boxes of pretty pink princess decorations (blue aeroplanes and fondant lego for the boys!), buttercream and some cupcake toppers and bobs your uncle - a princess party was born!

Amazing how quiet is was when they all got down to cupcakes decorating business!

Ready made cupcake party 6 children (2 cupcakes per child):

Box of 12 regular cupcakes

6 small boxes of handmade fondant decorations

12 cupcakes toppers

Tub of buttercream

€45,-

Cupcake party packages for more than 6 also possible.

It's not Goodbye, just Cheerio to the Kaye Family ;)

Cupcake party!

My good neighbours and friends, will shortly be moving to Norway and what better way to say Cheerio than with a Princess party? I turned up with a box of cupcakes and boxes of pretty pink princess decorations (blue aeroplanes and fondant lego for the boys!), buttercream and some cupcake toppers and bobs your uncle - a princess party was born!

Amazing how quiet is was when they all got down to cupcakes decorating business!

Ready made cupcake party 6 children (2 cupcakes per child):

Box of 12 regular cupcakes

6 small boxes of handmade fondant decorations

12 cupcakes toppers

Tub of buttercream

€45,-

Cupcake party packages for more than 6 also possible.

All you need is some kids!

Days gone by: birthdays

I've always loved a good piece of cake, and these photgraphs of me and my little sister (aged 4 and 2 respectiavely) prove it don't they just? Look at me with my beady eyes, eager for a slice of that huge 'gateaux'. I mean, I am almost 'helping' her blow out the candles!

Birthdays for my little sister - as I remember - consisted of going on holiday, visiting a huge hypermarket in France or Italy and choosing a 'gateaux' for her birthday. Be it 'black forest', with its huge cherries, mounds of whipped cream and chocolate, or strawberries and cream sponge cake, they were always a delight to choose. Funnily enough I don't remember much of my birthday cakes, I do remember the parties though. Since my birthday is always in the bitter cold winter I never celebrated it on holiday in the sunshine, or got a french gateaux, but I do fondly remember dancing to the 'birdy song', pass the parcel and musical chairs.

Later, when my sister was a bit older, she got to have birthday parties too (as her birthday fell during school time), allbeit in the garden so never any snow cancellations for her!

You can't pick your birthday and when it will fall, and I know we both enjoy our winter and summer birthdays; she has friends who can't come as they are on holiday and I have guests who cancel purely because their cars won't start in the snow!

Wedding cakes

The wedding cake of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was, to me, absolutely magnificent. I am not a fan of the word 'awesome' but it really was awesome. I don't know if you know but there were 900 flowers on the cake (17 different types of bloom or foliage for their symbolism), it took 5 weeks to complete and cost a whopping €55,000?! The sheer amount of work and quality of the work was amazing, goodness knows how the happy couple decided which cake to cut into?

This week i was honored to bake and decorate Sjouk & Alec's wedding cake (on a much easier to manage scale than Kate & Williams!), inside of which was red velvet sponge cake. I was most pleased with the result, I hope you agree, it turned out well. I particularly loved the 'S hearts A' (which brought back memories of what most girls in my class wrote on their school books...), which was their personal addition to the cake. As was the wheat on top and sides represented the wheat fields near the Brides home where the wedding reception was held, and they loved the idea of pearl dusted roses, leaves and hydrangea flowers.

I hope they both had a wonderful day!

I'd get married just for a cake, wouldn't you?

note: the last few photo's are of the Duke & Duchess's wedding cake ;)

Love note cupcakes!

I don't get many requests from overseas, let alone people I don't even get to meet and don't pick up the order themselves...but I received a very sweet email from a lovely girl in Shanghai. She wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a love 'letter' in the form of 12 cupcakes so how could I resist such a wonderful gesture?!

The image she sent me was transformed into a sketch and a few weeks later I delivered this box of yummies to a waiting boyfriend who had to skype his girlfriend when he opened them. Ahh, young love is bliss, and distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Catrin, for you, in the last photo, I have brought you closer together ;)