Sydney Royal Easter Show 2011 Cake Decorating Competition

My Sydney Royal Easter Show cake decorating competition entries

Last Supper Cake in the 'Most Creative Cake (Novice Class)' category

1st prize

I've been wanting to make this cake since last year but wasn't confident that I could pull it off. So with another year of cake decorating experience behind me, I thought I'd give it a go this year!

I really wanted to do something related to the real message of Easter - that of Jesus giving up his life to save the sins of the world. I didn't want a 'religious' looking cake. I thought the Last Supper was perfect as it is a well recognised painting.

  Japanese Udon Noodle Soup in the 'Most Creative Miniature Cake (Novice Class)' category

1st prize

Princess Cupcake Tower in the 'Most Creative Cupcakes (Open Class)' category

1st prize

 The Princesses: Tiana, Belle, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White

The 'accessory' cupcakes for each of the princesses

Mummy Pig with Baby Pigs in the 'Sydney Royal Easter Show Novelty Cake (Open Class)' category

3rd prize

It was exciting to also be rewarded two other special awards:


The Bernice J Vercoe Annual Prize, supported by the Cake Decorators' Association of NSW Inc., for the most successful Exhibitor in Cake Decorating and Sugar Art.


The E Neville Jones Annual Prize for the most successful Exhibitor in the Novice Section.


For more photos of these cakes, become a fan of The Cupcake Gallery Facebook page!

Last but not least... I couldn't have done it without my beautiful family!

Thanks Pete for looking after the kids so I could work on the cakes :o)

Thanks to my two beautiful kids Teaghan and Lucas for keeping their hands off my cake table :o)

Thanks baby #3 for not arriving before the deadline :o)

and thanks God for blessing me with these exciting results which I didn't expect to receive! 

Christmas Nativity Cupcakes

Christmas cupcakes for the neighbours

Fondant topper with buttercream on small vanilla cupcakes
I was going to make the three wise man too but ran out of time when I dropped half an eggshell into the cupcake batter mid-spin and had to start all over!

Have a lovely Christmas everyone!

I hope you enjoying unwrapping the best present of all this Christmas - Jesus!

Last order!

7" square red and black striped cake with figurine of the birthday girl (who loves her beauty sleep)

 On her bed are: a tin of milo, camera, bowl of instant noodles, and sheet music

 Cupcakes with a similar theme

Christmas cupcakes

 Snowman, Christmas tree, baby Jesus and angel

Snowboarders wedding

Snow mountain top cake with snowboarding bride & groom

on cupcake tower

200 small vanilla cupcakes decorated with mini snowboards, snowflakes, and initials

Some close ups of the figurines

the groom

the bride

New book!

The Cupcake Gallery is excited to announce it's new book!

Fondant Fun by Joanne Ong

For your chance to win a copy. Simply 'like' our FB page  and leave a comment under the status update about the book. Winner will be announced on Friday 3rd Dec 2010.

To purchase a copy of the book, click here or on 'BUY' above and follow the prompts. There is free shipping to the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia until 10 Dec. What a great Christmas gift idea!

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Girls Night In 19th Nov 2010

The Cupcake Gallery hosted a Girls Night In Cupcake Night on 19th Nov to raise money for the Cancer Council.

It was a fantastic night with 86 ladies in attendance, all ready to be creative with fondant.

In total, we raised $3500 for cancer research

 Girls Night In under way

 The room was beautifully set up, thanks to the lovely ladies at Dural Baptist Church.

 My lovely mum shared her story about beating breast cancer

 My beautiful family and I all decked out in pink for the occasion

 Goodie bags for everyone with goodies donated by businesses

Everyone was taught 2 designs, then had to design 4 of their own.

There were prizes for the best 3 boxes on the night.

 Susan won first prize.

 Julie won 2nd prize

Naomi won 3rd prize

A special thanks to the following businesses for their kind and generous contributions to the Girls Night In:

Blue Illusion

The Cookie Man

Raw Skin & Beauty

Wow Giftware

Sweetness the Patisserie

The Party Studio

PSP Three Towns Project

Sweet Deliveries

Dural Baptist Church

Princess Cupcake Afternoon photo shoot

My local council (Hills) wanted to come and take some photos of my work for their upcoming 2011 calendar, and asked if I could arrange for a couple of extra kids to come for some action shots of me teaching cupcakes. So I decided on a princess theme and invited a couple of my 3-year-old's girly-girl friends over for an afternoon of princess cupcake decorating fun!

Inspired by the likes of Mrs A in the Cove, I've always wanted to do a party spread like this, so this was the perfect excuse.

The whole thing turned out a little bigger than Ben Hur and I lost many hours of sleep over it, but in the end I was really pleased with the result!

 the spread

Juice, macarons, cakepops, and marshmallows

What you see here are 2nd rate macarons...

After the first succesful few batches of macarons, I hit a macaron wall this week and all attempts flopped. Being a perfectionist, I just had to keep trying... but after 6 batches, even I had to say enough is enough.

Well, just ONE more :o) ... magic batch #7 turned out beautifully!

So the night before the photo shoot, I laid out the best of my batch #7 macarons to take some photos... and ended up smashing the whole box of them when I was packing up!!!!!

Lucky I had some list-B macarons waiting in the fridge for their moment of glory (the tops are a little browned)...

Cakepops - another thing I've been itching to try.

 Love heart cookiepops
Meringues courtesy of Woolworths

Party bags

The castle cake.

Princess cupcakes (cupcake is under the dress).

'Upside-down' cupcake inspired by Debbie Browne

I was really happy with how these turned out.

Snow White

Cinderella

Tiana

Belle

Sleeping Beauty

Outside for the photo shoot