I have been spending some time re working our website, I have tweaked the galleries and categories and added some new images.

It is still a work in progress, but I am slowly getting there, be sure to have a look.

By sorting through all our photos I noticed how many great kids cakes Chris has made, the best thing about kids cakes is the reaction from not only the child having the party but all of their friends.

Our eldest son Kai had requested an Optimus Prime cake but a change in his current obsession at the 11th hour resulted in a Triceratops cake. I had organised blue and red decorations and cupcakes to match the transformers theme only to have him change his mind. Ah fickle 5 year olds !!

Living and working in Paddington in Sydney has it’s perks. One of our families favourite things to do is wander around the streets, popping in and out of all the shops. With three boys wanting to touch, taste and buy everything, at times it can be all too much.

Yesterday afternoon on a stroll up the street Spencer, our 3 year old asked to visit Just Williams a little hole in the wall selling chocolates. The window display had easter eggs and chocolate bunnies in every colour, flavour and size. Spence was gaging to get in - maybe the Easter bunny will have to make a stop off at Just Williams before he reaches our house.

Already this year Chris has created some spectacular cakes, but this week he blew the roof off with an amazing variation of one of our signature cakes.

We originally created the Dragon & Phoenix design in late 2008 in a blue and white colour scheme. Sylvia approached us earlier this year to create her wedding cake based on our Dragon & Phoenix, we customised it to suit her by using the bold black, white and red colour scheme and a different stylised version of the dragon & phoenix. The double happiness cake topper was hand cut by Chris and just takes the cake to a whole new level.

One of the best things about designing a cake and producing something amazing is close consultation between the client and Chris, this is truly how the magic happens.

Over the last few months I have been writing predominately about weddings, but we also make some really cool cakes for kids. So over the next few weeks I am going to bring you some photos, inspiration and ideas for amazing cakes for boys, girls and babies.

I am in the midst of organising our son Jasper’s christening and I found a picture of an amazing lamp that I wanted to use as the colour and motif inspiration for the day.

Lamps by The Owls Are Hunting

For regular readers of the blog you will know I have a slight obsession with birds and I love the modern, simplicity of the birds in flight on the lampshade.  I also LOVE the white, aqua and cherry red.

The best thing about organising a christening is the designs and motifs can be whimsical and you don’t need to stick to the age old blue and pink.

I have sourced writing paper from poppies for grace called in the field which uses the same colours and I will print the invitations on this.

Stay tuned for more on Jasper’s upcoming christening.

When I think of the colour grey in relation to food, it produces images of my step dad over boiling broccoli and brussel sprouts.  So what do I make of grey cakes ? I LOVE them and it is only a colour after all, not the mushed up veg to go with it.

Chris created this awesome cake late last year for a photo shoot which unfortunately hit the cutting room floor. We really love using bold colours and interesting design features and the combination of grey, yellow, black and white is a real winner at cake occasions. I also think it is a colour combo to watch, just this morning when I was reading the Wedding Paper Divas Blog they had a post this very colour combination.

wedding paper divas

In the recent meltingly hot weather I have been dreaming of cooler climes and some fresh breeze and today thank the lord it is nice and cool.

Last week Chris created a cake that had me dreaming of hot chocolate and cool nights, a very beautiful snowflake cake.

Chris hand cut the larger snowflakes using a template he had created, in total in took him four hours to delicately create each individual snowflake and then he piped on a few more.

The cake looked really magical - great for a winter wonderland