Markets - In the Garden

Market fun! 

Animals

 My playful puppy, reminds me of Elvis a little.

 Highland Terrier.

Kitty cat!

This is supposed to be a rabbit. Don't think I have this one right just yet.

My failed Albanian flag cake!

Wedding Cake!!!

My Sweetopia!

 Berry Meringue from My Sweetopia on Grey Street in Southbank. Very cute little store, white back ground with greed polka dots with a green wall inside and light brown with dark brown polka dots. A good amount of cakes on display beautifully decorated. They said the cakes were either mud chocolate or white mud chocolate cake or a specialty type. The berry meringue was white mud which was a lovely cake but was a little off putting as it was more dense than a vanilla cake which is what I was expecting. The icing was gross as it had way too much butter in it. It was like eating a tablespoon of margarine. I loved the meringue on top and I am thinking of a pavlova cupcake. It made such a great texture with the soft cake and crunchy meringue.

This was a black forest cake. It was delicious but I wouldn't call it a black forest, not enough cherry and no alcohol. The fresh strawbery was a nice touch and the fresh cream was great. Looked very pretty with the butterfly cut.


We will definitely check out this store when you are in town. They have a jam doughnut one that I would like to try and compare it to mine.

Experiments with Sugarpaste

This is the birthday cake I made for Mackenzie. It was  fairly simple design but I think it worked pretty well. The cake was red velvet (which caused me some hassles cause I used the cupcake recipe). I then covered it with buttercream icing and then put the sugarpaste over it. I thought the rolling out of the icing and placing it over the cake would be hard but it wasn't too hard. I had to put rolled paper towel in the bow loops to let them set properly.


I did find that the sugarpaste left in a plastic container went soft and sweated. It was best to leave in a container and just covered with a tea towel or something. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to try some more things. I want to do an Albanian flag for Behar's birthday which I am hoping won't be too hard. I'll let you know how it goes!

Choc Oreo Cupcakes

This is Mandy's creation.  She went a little nuts with my snowflake cutter - rather hilarious!  The ones I made had piped whipped cream on top and then just a mini Oreo - a bit like how they look on the website.  Very cute!

http://buddingbaketress.blogspot.com/2011/03/oreo-cupcakes.html

Sorry just easier to send the link to you.  The only thing I changed in the recipe was that I didn't put the vanilla extract in the cream frosting.  I didn't really like the Oreo on the bottom of the cupcake but then Mandy did. 



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