I'm not the Expert, I'm the Experiment!
Yesterday we had a birthday party for CrashGirl’s 4th birthday. I love a good birthday party, and especially love decorating a cake. You can see previous birthday cakes here on the blog and you’ll get a sense of how much fun I have! So this year when it came to planning the cake, the big [...]
How do you find cake ideas for little girls? Pinterest right? Wrong. About 99.9% of the cakes on pinterest were decorated with perfectly smooth (and characterless) marzipan or fondant. I am not a professional cake decorator and I don’t like the taste of marzipan or fondant. What’s a fussy mumma to do? I grew up [...]
Making Christmas Gingerbread Cookies Last week I did a {Retro Crash} to introduce you to a fabulous English trifle recipe just in time for Christmas. I thought I’d throw in another tried and tested Christmas delight. My good friend Sally from Heavenly Cakes gave me this gingerbread foundation recipe. I used it a couple of [...]
In fact, do you do Halloween at all? Growing up in New Zealand we didn’t ‘celebrate’ Halloween. It was an American thing. In Australia it’s a little different and I’m finding the tradition has been claimed and observed more and more. CrashGirl’s kindergarten does ‘trick or treat’ each year in the neighbouring streets. Last year [...]
Melbourne’s weather finally shone for us and we had CrashBoy’s Cat in the Hat birthday on the weekend. Here’s the pictures of the cake and the party so you can see how I got on! Remember, these test results follow on from: {Crash Test} How to throw a Cat in the Hat birthday party {Crash [...]
This weekend we’re having CrashBoy’s 2nd birthday party. It’s probably going to rain. “The sun did not shine, It was too wet to play.” Our house is tiny and certainly won’t fit all our guests comfortably. Oops. Oh well, hopefully we can distract everyone with lot of fun Cat in the Hat inspired party food [...]
Crash Test How to throw a Cat in the Hat birthday party Why? CrashBoy is turning two! Now I love a good kids birthday party and started thinking about CrashBoy’s a few weeks ago. As luck would have it, Mother Duck Said: “Let’s Party” were looking for someone to try out their invitations and co-ordinating [...]
I really love making birthday cakes for the kids. I tend to go over the top a bit as you can see from the Miffy cake and the Hungry Caterpillar cake. However my last cake did not follow in the same grand design! CrashGirl’s third birthday was the week we moved into our house. The [...]
Crash Test A hungry caterpillar birthday cake Why? CrashGirl’s first birthday Miffy cake was a mammoth effort. Unfortunately I had set the bar quite high. So, what’s an exhausted mother to do? Make sure I clear that bar! Staying with the favourite book theme we went for Eric Carle’s Hungry Caterpillar. Test Conditions: Sticking to [...]
Crash Test Making a cake shaped like Miffy the rabbit! Why? CrashGirl was our first child and our folk’s first grandchild. As she approached her first birthday I think I probably had my first panic attack. Are all mothers not judged by the fabulousness of their cake decorating skills?!? No, probably not, but I wasn’t [...]
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