Dog food on a cake

It was a good friend of mine's birthday this weekend. She is studying to be a vet and works as a Eukanuba rep as a part-time job while she's studying. She LOVES Eukanuba and used to promote it to us evey chance she got until we eventually changed them over to her food.

So when I decided to make a cake for her I was wondering what to do and one of our other friends suggested a Eukanuba bag of food< which was the best idea I had ever heard! I decided that a bag of dog food was a little too difficult so I made a dog bowl that said Eukanuba across it and filled it with tasty 'doggy biscuits'.

 The doggie biscuits were actually chocolate truffles and were the first things finished. She loved the cake and was really excited that I had made it for her. It's always so much more rewarding to see the persons face who is receiving the cake. These cakes take a lot of time and effort to make but it's when I get to see how happy people are to get them that makes it all worth it.

We had a massive potjie for her birthday party which turned out amazing. The pot was huge so we will be having leftovers for a while still, but that's fine cuz it was just so good.

Wedding Stationery

Ok, so I don't normally just re-post things from other blogs...ok I never do that. But I feel like this is more ok to do...because I helped with the stuff that's in the photos.

A friend of mine recently asked me to help her design the wedding stationery for a friend of hers...who subsequently became a friend of mine as well...anyway. She got married on her farm and basically had MY dream wedding. Everything looks so beautiful and exactly how I would want my day to be (except for the weather). I'm so happy that I could be a part of making her day special, she is such an amazing person and I'm very glad that I got to know her through the process.

We did all the stationery, from the invitations to the order of service/program/menu booklets and the name/jam tags.

I will post some more photos when I get them from the bride, but here are a few from the photographer's blog in the meantime.

These (above) were the booklets that served as programs, menu's, hymn books and table seating. The bride came up with the lace handle idea which was brilliant. It allowed the booklets to be slung around your wrist so that you could still have two free hands when you weren't reading the booklet.

Gita, you looked stunning and I'm so happy for you and Slime. You guys are such a stunning couple and I hope that you will be happy together forever. Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day.

If you want to see more photos go to the photographers blog here - all the pics are from tarynrahlphotography.co.za

Hello Kitty

I had another cake for a little girls birthday party recently. The money that I make off most (ok all) of my baking goes straight back into buying more stuff for baking. And with every new tool or gadget I buy I find that I enjoy the process even more and then want to buy more stuff...it's a vicious circle...but it makes me happy.


A week ago I had to re-pack my entire kitchen because my baking stuff was just taking over everything. Now the larger half of my kitchen is dedicated to baking and the small side is for cooking stuff. Everyone who visits here always says my kitchen is backwards because the knifes and forks and plates and bowls arent in the most logical and easily accesible place in the kitchen...and for good reason. I bake more than I cook -well almost - so my baking stuff has preference.

One day, hopefully, we will be able to redo the kitchen and I can get my nice big oven that can cook 48 cupcakes at a time and then everything might just be baking stuff!