I had this pix up at as one of my last Facebook posts of 2015, and no other cake pop as more fitting. I had a great and fulfilling year, in which I had many firsts. Thank you to : my clients for just being my clients and not someone else’s ; those who wrote […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas presents. I hate the pressure and the commercialisation of it all, but I love finding a special something that says, “thank you”. I’m an old fashioned believer in the ‘it’s the thought that counts” so I hardly ever buy gift cards except when I don’t know the person. […]
There is a mild ombre effect because the client wanted them in three shades of pink, but wanted all shades to be light.
Baked with love
I made 100 masks for masquerade cake pops for a Year 6 graduation party, and I tried to make them all unique. Every child is unique after all! I felt as if I had a personal connection to this event because my own child was graduating from primary school as well, and I made these […]
I’ve done Sesame Street characters several times, but I’ve never done Ernie and Bert. Elmo is probably the most popular character today but I am old school after all, and Elmo was never a thing then. I loved Ernie, with his ever indefatigable spirit, and Bert, with his deadpan patience. There is Abbot and Costello, […]
Cake decorators start with the cake, and then make the cupcakes to compliment the cake. Because people come to for the cake pops, then add on the cake, I do the reverse! Since my favourite version of the jungle animals is already in the cake pop designs, why reinvent the wheel? The client already requested […]
You might notice this or you might not, but these cake pops aren’t so well shaped. These are vegan cake pops, and it was a last minute request, so to be honest, I struggled a bit trying to get the texture and consistency right with a cake dough that was foreign to me. I also […]