Charli's 6th Birthday

Charli celebrating her 6th Bday with a Unicorn Pink and White Square cake...she loved it

A Massive Week of Sydney Fun

For those of you who don't know, I headed to Sydney this week to explore in my creative side and dabble in a decorating classes in Sydney CBD were I did a 4-day intensive cake decorating and business session.

The intensive session was only available to 4 students and this week I got an insight to cake decorating and running a successful business from 3 lovely cake decorators Sharon, Lilia and Louise. There were hours of discussions, brainstorms, designing and days of ganaching, covering and decorating. 

We all got to design 2 cakes and by day 4 I was mentally and physically exhausted but extremely proud of the cakes that I created. Special thanks to Sarah L, for letting me share her bed whilst I was in Sydney, I had a blast!

To be honest the first day I was very overwhelmed and began questioning why I was really there? all the other students had done so many decorating classes and here I was a complete novice...doing a 4-day intense workshop, was I loco (crazy) ? Intimidated was a understatement and I quickly realised after day 2, I was in my element and the creative juices flowed all of a sudden it was like I had found my calling and my release. I think my cakes turned out just as good as the others in the class given my limited knowledge, but you be the judge. 

I made two cakes, one of them was heading to a little girl turning 6, Charli and the other unfortunately did not make the journey back to Melbourne however it did go to a nice lady I met in the lift, so I was happy that it didn't get thrown into the bin, there were many hours spend designing and decorating my 'chandelier charm cake'. Unfortunately weighing over 10kg I just couldn't carry all the way to Melbourne. Charli requested a horse so I threw on a unicorn to make her happy, she was thrilled, see below pic, and that is in all honesty why I am drawn to this, the sheer pleasure it brings people, the reaction and the response was flattering, and worth the effort and time.

In any case it was good practice for future orders and I figure if this is the start, there are only bigger and better things to follow. I am looking forward to making many more cakes. 

The other students work