I love a good kids activity, so when my daughter had a playdate this week I decided to set them up with a fun craft. These butterfly cupcake toppers would be so great for a birthday party too. Either they could be made before hand as decor, or as a party activity. Of course they’d…
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Rainbow Cake Topper & Mini Cupcake Toppers // DIY
One thing I love about birthdays is making a birthday cake. I almost almost always use a box cake mix for guaranteed yumminess. The part I enjoy most is coming up with the decorations for the top though. We recently hosted our daughter’s fourth birthday party and she chose a rainbow theme. Pastel rainbow to…
Easy Wooden Cake Stand // DIY
We’ve all had that time where you’ve got a beautiful cake (maybe one you’ve slaved over for hours), you expect it to look amazing on the table with the rest of the snacks at your party, but then it just looks, well, meh! It somehow gets lost amongst the rest of the food. Or is that…
Chocolate cake with whipped cream cheese icing // Recipe
I really like cake stands. Like, really. I don’t have that many, but I also don’t have much storage space in the kitchen. Urgh! Anyway, Michael said I could get ONE more, so it had to be a good one! I found this cute little one at Mr Price for a steal and just had…
Cream Cheese Icing // recipe
On Monday I decided to try a cream cheese icing since we had some cream cheese in the fridge. I had also tried a new chocolate cupcake recipe. They came out nice, but not amazing. So, I decided that I’d just share the Icing recipe so long. It was really easy and has a soft…
Rainbow cake with crystal white icing // recipe
Last weekend was my 21st birthday party. The theme: black and white with a splash of bright. Being a sweet-toothed girl, my focus was on the puddings. I made two batches of cake and did three colours (South African spelling) in each batch. A good gel food colouring gives a nice bright colour. For 1…