WINNER of website launch competition...

It was so very hard choosing one winner for our website launch competition!

We received so many wonderful entries.. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to enter and share our little competition. It really means a lot to me that I have the support of so many fantastic likers.

We are so very happy to announce the winner of our $300 voucher to Kylie Orr

Please email me at debbi@studiocake.com.au within 24 hours to claim this prize 

Her winning entry
No more homemade cakes to burn,
No more icing and decorating concerns
Studio Cake saves our kitchen disasters
And we all devour happily ever after
♥

Studio Cake Website Launch - Competition

I am soooooo excited!!!! Our beautiful new website has gone live. It has taken many many months of consultation with designers and programmers, and the wait was totally worth it.

I hope you LOVE it as much as I do. A very huge thank you to Sarah of Style Me Gorgeous for the design of the website, and to Gareth of Minio Design and Print for the website development and for all of your patience with me. It was an absolute pleasure dealing with these two lovely people who are so professional and amazing to work with.

As a little thank you for your ongoing support on facebook and to celebrate the launch of our new website, we are giving you the chance to win a $300 Studio Cake gift voucher which can be used toward a designer cake, sweet treats or a dessert table.

Please read our promo below and remember to

1. Like us on Facebook
2. Leave a comment below or email debbi@studiocake.com.au telling us in 25 words or less why you would like to win this prize

Winner will be drawn on Monday 4th March 2013

Terms &Conditions of entry as follows

• Studio Cake reserves the right to use its discretion to choose a winner from the most creative answers
• Open to Melbourne (Australian) residents, but all comments welcome
• Gift Voucher to be redeemed between 1st June 2013 and 30th June 2014
• Voucher to be used toward new bookings only
• Winner will be notified via Facebook, recipient will have 24 hours to contact me via email otherwise prize will be re drawn.
• Recipient of the voucher agrees to a time and date for pick up of cake, sweet treat, from Studio Cake's business address.  A charge will apply for delivery/set up (if applicable)
• This voucher is not redeemable for cash

Crash the Party. Angry birds style

Those that know me, know I am not a huge fan of licensed themed parties. I cringe when my kids ask for Dora, super Mario and Thomas the tank themed parties, but as a parent I sometimes need to step back and remember that at times its okay to allow for our children's obsessions to take over!. As is of course the case with my 6 year old who breathes and dreams of.... his Angry birds....

Now up until researching this silly little game, all I knew was how annoying the sound effects coming from my mobile phone and ipad were, but in fairness to these little angry critters, once I began to research them, I found that they each had a little personality and realised that there was actually a story behind this very addictive game.  And so began a little love/hate relationship with them as I created the figurines that adorned the 8 inch square mud cake in the shape of a TNT box.

As my son's request to have an Angry birds party evolved and as with all of my children's birthdays, the joy I received from Ethan's envolvment in his own party design was fabulous.

Nicole from Pretty and Print created the perfect printable for the party to include the fantastic invite, and backdrop incorporating my sons favourite colours. 

My gorgeous friend Catherine of Sweet Empire created the most amazing cake pops and cupcakes for the children's table and decedent cupcakes (flour less chocolate, frangelico) and delicious caramelised onion and goats cheese tartlettes for the adults table.
A huge thank you goes out to her for all her help in creating, baking and helping me with the party. 

A highlight for the kids were the amazing angry birds iced cookies created by the talented Donna of Sweet Table. The details on the cookies are just fantastic and way to gorgeous to eat. I over heard my daughter saying she was going to save it for show and tell at school.

I wanted the simple dessert table to tell the story of the game and created an extended 8 inch chocolate mud cake (Ethan's favourite) in the form of the TNT box featured throughout the game. I have to admit that I do like the bad piggies and made these the focal point of the cake, and placed the red angry bird on the bottom of the cake board, with the infamous sling shot ready to "kill" the pigs that are mocking from above and have stolen the golden egg. 

My father and his wife made the amazing over sized red angry bird pinata. It was so funny watching the kids try their hand at "smashing" the bird.

Photography : Sofi P Photography

Please scroll down for more vendor credits

Vendor Credits

Concept, styling and cake made by Studio Cake

Cupcakes and cakepops : Sweet Empire

Cookies : Sweet Table

Photography : Sofi P Photography

Printables : Pretty and Print

Table and chair hire : Party Squad

Giant balloons and table decor: Little Dance Invitation

Balloon Tassels: Dandy and Darling

Table runners : Vintage Sew and So

Photo Booth Props : Charlie and Mae

Macaron Gift Packs

This year we are excited to be able to offer two types of macaron gift packs for Christmas.

The first is an assortment of our most popular flavours available now to pre - order.

 

Prices

24 Assorted flavours - $60

 

12 Assorted flavours - $30

 

6 Assorted flavours - $15 

 

 

The second is our Christmas Gift packs which will be available only in the 12 pack assortment of new flavours!

Prices

12 Assorted flavours - $30

All packs are gift boxed and beautifully presented - they make a fabulous gift or why not order for your Christmas celebration for your family to enjoy.

We are only offering a very limited number of packs this year.

Pre orders are to be paid in full at the time of booking .

All enquiries and bookings - debbi@studiocake.com.au

We will be accepting orders until Monday 10th December
Pick up to be arranged via email for the 22nd or 23rd December 2012.

Photography -Katie Toland Photography
Tags - designed by The little Soiree

Pink, white and Black baby shower

It seems like the power of pink is all around me these days!. This pretty pink baby shower we styled in August, was inspired by my clients invitation. The brief was to include the funky black and white spotted pram in the design and to include as much pink as possible!!.

I love the candy pink and white stripe backdrop designed by Tammy of Little dance Invitations. The matching buffet labels and signage complemented the table beautifully and helped to tie in all the other elements created for this chic baby celebration.

The handmade gumpaste baby pram adorned the caramel mud cake and the dessert buffet included pram shaped lemon vanilla cookies, strawberry macarons and vanilla cupcakes and delish tim tam cake pops. 

As always, the candy buffet was a huge it! - the raspberry bon bons and strawberry jelly beans disappearing in record time.

A Huge thank you to the lovely Jo from Love that Photography for taking these gorgeous photos and helping me at the eleventh hour! x

Vendor credits below

Styling and all sweets by Studio Cake

Photography : Love that Photography

Stunning Three tierd pink ombre table cloth : Vintage Sew and So

Mini cupcake stands and large candy jars and all artwork: Little Dance Invitations

All elements of this table can be recreated using our hire items from Boutique Party Hire.



Aydin's Carnival Party

My little man turned two in May and to celebrate we held a Carnival party.  I wanted to keep the food, sweets and games simple, fun and bright for the little ones and focused on a very simple dessert table featuring a circus train cake and circus cupcakes. The table would not have been complete with yummy candy, pop corn, hotdogs, icecream and lemonade.

Of course it was of no surprise that I chose the gorgeous Circus train printables designed by Style Me Gorgeous!. These exclusive printables are available from Boutique printables. I highly recommend their website which has a selection of amazing designs from some of the most talented graphic artists around!!

The circus train prinables were perfect for this party.  I love the little personalities of each of the characters on the invitations and I tried to incorporate these on the cake which was inspired by one of this countries talented and amazing cake artists - Mr Handi Mulyana. (Thank you Handy for allowing me to use some of the lovley elements of your original design)

The cake was caramel mud cake, layered with dark chocolate ganache. The figurines were all hand made. I wish I had more time to include a few more animals like a seal and a few more circus animals, but as always time just got away from me.

Vanilla cupcakes with buttercream swirl were displayed in the gorgeous ferris wheel cup cake stand and is available for hire here.

The drinks station served yummy cordial lemonade and the children loved helping themselves to the beverage using mini glass bottles purchased at The Little Big Company.

A small photo booth was set up where the children got to dress up for some fun photo opportunities (and the adults had some fun with this too).

Carnival Games were a highlight of the afternoon as the children enjoyed their luck at duck pond fishing and the bean bag throw. I found some authentic tickets, which the children had to collect, and then choose their "prize" based on the number of tickets won

My little man handed out fairyfloss at the end of the day and the kids got to fill their own lolly bag (which is always a such a hit!!)

Vendor credits:

Styling and Sweets - Studio Cake

Invitations and party printables - Boutique Printables (design Style Me gorgeous)

Backdrop - Drinks Station designed and printed by Little Dance Invitations

Lollypop Canopy, soda crates and ferris wheel cupcake stand - can be hired from Boutique Party Hire

Stands and selected candy and candy jars - Sweet Style

Mini Glass bottles, carnival lanterns - Little Big Company

Ruffle table cloth and Lolly Pop Canopy can be purchased at Vintage Sew and So

Photography - Katie Toland Photography

Thank you for stopping by xx

Princess jumping castle

My lovely client - the very talented Lori of Lajari provided me with simple brief... create a gorgeous cake for her little princess' first birthday cake. Oh and it helped that she even sketched the cake she wanted made!!!.

I love working with creative people, its so refreshing when a client knows exactly what they want and enjoys the designing process as much as I do.

Lori is a graphic artist, so the pressure was on to create something that would meet up to her standards.  I had the pleasure of creating her daughter's 3rd birthday cake a little while back, so she was aware of what I am capable of creating, still it was a little daunting, to have to replicate a 2D sketch.

But those that know me, know I love a challenge, so I was very excited to get started! 

The inspiration for the design came of course from the gorgeous invitations she created.  Her daughter loves jumping castles and so it was fitting that we include a fun and quirky version of a "princess castle" for a little girl who is not really into all things princess, but is her mum and daddy's princess!!

The jumping castle adorned this extended 8 inch marble mud cake.  An edible image was printed to replicate the name plaque Lori created and I love how the grey breaks up the girly colours of the cake.

Thanks for looking xx

 Invitation and cake sketch - by Lajari

Studio cakes replicaton of the gorgeous cake sketch by Lajari.

All elements on the cake are edible!