It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Which can only mean one thing for the novice baker......its time for Christmas baking. Some of these goodies will be made a few days before christmas and other items will be made on the day. So far my christmas baking list looks a little like this

• Santa Hat Brownies
• Nuttela and chocolate macarons
• Coconut and strawberry biscuits
• Rudolf cake pops
• Snowflake & character cupcakes

I have include my inspiration board below and will post full recipe and pictures on Christmas day.  A few of these yummy goodies were sent to me by friends to bake a few for them, others will be give to the little kids to enjoy on the day....like the rudolf cake pops are reserved for under 12 people.

Hope you all have a great time baking it up this year...I would love to see all your creations via FB

xoxox KB

"Sniff, sniff"....Farewell my friends!

It is fair to say that I enjoy baking and decorating, it certainly has become my way of releasing tension and stress in my life.

My current project was extremely different, it was with great sadness that I baked this cake as it was baked to farewell my work colleagues and friends Louise, Leanda, Heidi, Karl & Matt. Our relationship spans over 5 years or 1300 days of amazing friendship, laughter, encouragement and support. Each person has made a massive contribution to not only my professional career but also personally.

They are each dear friends and while I wish them all the best on there future endeavours and adventures, I have no doubt that we will always remain friends and in each others lives, even without the day to day interactions.

I will certainly miss the laughter, jokes, the zumba moves and more importantly the quick shopping adventures during the lunch break.

Hope you enjoyed my farewell gift guys...Love you all

Oh and the Cake is Chocolate Sour Cream with a Herseys chocolate butter cream frosting

Katie B

Also, now that you all have some spare time I expect you all over for coffee and cake.....No excuses!

Love is sweet: A vintage kitchen tea party

Congratulations to my girl friend Vanessa for getting engaged but more importantly for her upcoming wedding. It only seems like yesterday that I was planning a similar event for my wedding and three years have already passed. The event was a vintage inspired high tea kitchen party. The weather was beautiful and the bride-to-be was super cute as always in her yellow polka dot apron. The entire house was themed to fit her vintage inspiration.

All the best Vanessa , looking forward to tasting all the sweets from your kitchen.



The cupcakes were vanilla with vanilla buttercream a rather popular combination, inspired by magnolia with a few minor changes as I have found that the original recipe was rather to sweet for us "Australians".

Until Next time, happy baking

xo
KB

Happy 60th Birthday to the Hamburger King

Never have I met a more generous and loving man than my Father in law,Con. I have known him for just over 10 years in fact I remember the first family event I was invited to was his 50th Birthday.

When his 60th came around it was a given that I would be baking something that he enjoys, making hamburgers. Dubbed as the "Hamburger King" of the Northern Suburbs, this cake was fitting.

This was my first attempt at a all over butter cream and I thoroughly enjoyed making, it was a labour of love. It took about 3 hours to complete, which included baking and preparation time, which is a world record. The cake is vanilla sponge with chocolate sour cream cake and lemon butter cream icing. It taste very moist and delicious,in fact the chocolate vanilla combo was great its been a good 2 weeks since I started my health kick, however I did enjoy a bite size of the cake, enough to not give me a sugar shock, I guess I will be burning that off at the gym tomorrow.

The expression on my father-in-laws face was priceless, definitely worth the effort. Until next time happy baking

xoKB