Vintage glamour is the current catch cry of many couples we are seeing and with that we have been designing some really beautiful and elegant wedding cakes.

There is a real tread towards the classic, waspy style with lots of white on white, ivory and old fashioned elegance.

Think intricate piping, sugar flowers, monograms and lots of tiers.

Here are some of our classically elegant cakes

In this industry a gym membership is a must ! I am sure I have eaten my body weight in cake, for research purposes of course.

We were approached by Les Mills to create a cake to celebrate the launch of their 80th Body Step program, even the instructors eat cake…

So next time I am at the gym lying back on the steps trying to punish my triceps, I will think of cake.

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.

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

Last Wednesday Chris and I attended The Wedding Establishment Showcase which was held at the QVB Tearooms we had a wonderful day talking to girls planning their weddings and to other suppliers.

The venue looked magnificent and Tanja Radman the director of The Wedding Establishment did an outstanding job in putting together a wonderful showcase.

Chris made some fabulous cakes again this week. Check out the Kung Fu Panda cake, Chris hand painted an icing plaque, he never ceases to amaze me with his talent.

We have been asked to create many wonderful and varied cakes since we started our business.

This week we were commissioned to make a cake for a surgeon celebrating a milestone operation, his 10,000th ACL (Knee operation)

We also made a cute yellow critter for Mandi at Babyology for her daughter’s 2nd birthday. Mandi told us that her little girl loves yellow and provided some cute Japanese character’s to inspire Chris in the design of the cake. Look out for the review of the cake on Babyology at the end of September.

We held our first piping class last Sunday, which was fabulous. Chris had such a great time teaching the girls he forgot to get some action snaps.

This week we have been flat out creating cakes for photo shoots. We were thrilled to be asked to design cakes for a nautical shoot and a white shoot.

Chris and I love brainstorming on new designs and we always love to come up with something new and dynamic.

The first cake was inspired by a French sailors uniform - we loved the idea of adorning the cake with a red pom pom on the top tier, like a french sailor’s cap.

White cakes are timeless and elegant, we were inspired by some detailing on a wedding dress when coming up with these designs

Finally Happy Birthday Spencer - Chris created a Bumblebee Transformer cake for our soon to be middle child for his 3rd birthday.

We have been talking about this cake forever…

When we consult with our clients on the design of their cake we like to add personal touches to make the cakes unique to them.

Recently we have made two fantastic cakes that used items of sentimental value to inspire the design.

The first cake was for Mikaela’s christening - the piece of fabric that adorns the cake was part of her Grandmother’s wedding dress and had been used to make both Mikaela’s christening gown and her mother Nicole’s christening gown.

The second cake Chris made was for Noah’s 18th birthday, his mother commissioned us to sculpt a Noah’s Ark. After doing a bit of brainstorming, she remembered that Noah’s grandfather had given him a rustic, wood carved ark as a baby and this is what we used to make the cake.

Yesterday we held our second two tier square class and we were really happy to see our students produce quite different cakes.

Our aim with our cake design classes is to teach the foundation of cake design, which is the construction or set up of cakes. I liken it to a painter preparing a canvas, if the base is not right the colours and design won’t shine.

Ineke choose a very simple design, Chris taught her how to quilt the bottom tier and she adorned the cake with a chocolate brown and white stitched grossgrain ribbon.

Ineke had previously made some sugar flowers at a workshop run by our great friend Faye Cahill who is renowned for hand made sugar flowers. Ineke was going to add these flowers to her cake when she got home.

Maria decorated her cake with bright colours for her children to enjoy.

This week Chris made a gorgeous cake for a first birthday. The birthday boy’s mum asked us to match the cake to the invitations she had purchased from poppies for grace

Chris also created a cake for a D.J ’s 40th birthday

Last week Chris created some amazing sculptured cakes.

A PVC pipe being cut by a hack saw for a farewell to an employee of a PVC piping company.

Chris also created a gorgeous rocket and planet cake for Jake’s Birthday

A big thank you to the girls who attended the Beginners class yesterday, again Chris and I are amazed by the talent out there.