Gingerbread Christmas House

I wanted to make a Gingerbread house since last year when I saw a huge array of Gingerbread house designs at a French Bakery, for the first time.This Christmas my daughter Anita and I knew the timing was right and we spent the morning making our first Gingerbread Christmas House, after we opened our presents! Anita and I had a lot of fun making this together.

Icing Mixture:

• 1 Egg White
• Small amount white vinegar or lemon juice
• 250g Icing Sugar (sifted)

Merry Christmas

Trish Munro

Butterfly Birthday Cake

I wanted to make my daughter a Butterfly Birthday cake before she is too old for butterflies! She invited about 50 friends from school and her dance studio and the kids all had a ball.

Nanna Joan was here buttering the bread early in the day ready for the sausage sizzle on the BBQ and making up the lolly bags. My son mowed the lawn and blew up the balloons and he was the DJ with all the latest music for the party.  Vicki Fraser came over and helped me get ready and put up all the balloons and decorated the house, helped me bake, vacuum,mop and even cleaned the pool ready for Anita’s pool party disco!Even Vicki’s hubby came over and helped supervise the kids and helped  keep them all fed with plate after plate. It was a real team effort and my hubby home from work just in time to cook the BBQ. There is something about inviting people over that makes me clean the house like a mad woman.

I’m very proud of my cake and it turned out just like the pictures(attached) Anita and I drew when we were designing what we wanted. We started with a Garden with lots of grass (piped with corner cut out of zip lock bag and extra green food colouring added to original green icing) and flowers(Bought at Supermarket) and a bit of Bling (Silver Balls).If you are wondering were on earth I got the cake pan for the Garden layer it’s actually my oven roaster pan that I normally cook a baked Chicken in. The Butterfly top layer is essentially a cake baked in a circle pan and cut up. My oven cooks unevenly so one side of the circle cake was higher than the other and I used this to my advantage so that the top of the butterfly cake was higher and on one of the photos you can see that the butterfly is slightly over the edge, I did this so it looked like it was just about the fly away!

Here are the designs we drew prior to making the cake so we had a plan, and all the right decorations ready  for the cake once it was baked. I lightly sprayed a fine mist of water over the cake to remoisten the icing.

Thanks for coming over to see my Butterfly Birthday Cake

Trish Munro

Toblerone Swirl Cheesecake

I made this Toblerone Cheesecake for my son’s 16th birthday and naturally it didn’t last long. I used Malteasers to decorate and I had heaps of fun getting the swirl effect.
It was so yummy!!!
Trish Munro

Hubby Baked Me A Cake

I was 46 on the weekend and Hubby baked me a cake and my 15year old son cooked a roast chicken with gravy, life doesn’t get any better than that. I’m feeling the LOVE!

Birthday Cake

Here is a Chocolate mud cake I made for my daughters 8th Birthday party. I found these large white plastic cake numbers at the supermarket years ago and they have been very handy. Here I used the 8 in the corners to mask as I carefully placed the pink sprinkles, an effect I would have never thought of prior to being a stamper and card maker. I am determined to make more arty cakes as the years progress as a personal challenge.

Anita's Princess Castle Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my daughter's 10th Birthday last year and I'm very proud my efforts. I found a video on you tube and there were step by step instructions. I took me hours longer than the demo girl but in the end the result was a great success and my daughter and her friends devoured it.