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A Vase Cake (with fresh flowers) for 2 of my friends' joint birthday celebration today 😊

Swipe for more views and one of the cake "in the wild".

A Volcano and Dinosaurs themed Cake, for my one and only nephew 😊

(The dinosaurs are toys, in case anyone was thinking "That's really impressive fondant work" 😄)

Swipe for more views!

And of course I put a sparkler candle inside the volcano, for the "volcanic explosion" 🤓. The last photo shows it lit up, and if you notice a lollipop stick in the birthday boy's mouth, it's nOt a lollipop stick (as I first thought 🤭), but a bit of spark from the candle. And also if you saw my stories yesterday, you'd know I was trying to get hold of some dry ice (which I wanted to use to create some smoke), but unfortunately couldn't get any 😪. Still, very happy with how it turned out and loved making it 😊

A "Dhiguhedhun" themed Cake for local tailor .kandoo , which was requested by her daughter 😊

I looked through her page for inspiration and there were a few designs which would "probably" have been easier to do in buttercream 😄, but I loved this one especially and had to give it a try.

(Swipe for a slightly closer look and to see the actual dress, which was worn by our First Lady 😊)

Joined in on a cake collab ( the ) hosted by .homecakery, and and this is what I made for it 😊
(Check out to see what the others made!)

A little bit about the cake:

*I love fairytale gardens and so went with this door, which in my fairytale, leads to a magical garden. And if you're thinking about how it opens since there's no door handle, it needs no handle and will magically open upon hearing the magic word 😌

*The design on the door is inspired by the beautiful (coral stone) carvings of Maldives (swipe for my inspiration photos taken at Hukuru Miskiy).

*I used fresh bougainvillea and dried camomile flowers for the floral part of the theme.

*Note to self (and other bakers): bougainvillea wilts very quickly (as seen here on this cake 🙊) and is not ideal for decorative use on cakes and other baked goods.

It's a Space Cake! With a Rocket which "made" Real Fire! Swipe to Seee! 😃🚀

My customer asked if I could do one like it (using one of those firework candles) and I remembered seeing one by , but her's had had the fire coming down (from a rocket which was going up), which was a problem for me since my cake wouldn't have the "structural height" for it to not be a fire hazard (😱). So I positioned the rocket going in the opposite direction so that the fire would be going up, and while there may be a number of scientific errors in the story happening here on the cake, it still made for a 😄. And in the words of the birthday boy, "This is the best cake I ever had. It was so cool when the rocket lit up so much”. Which made my day 🥰. In addition to the fact that the rocket didn't fall off or "explode" which were things I was very worried about 🤭

PS. You know I love to share facts/trivia in my captions but this time not going to do that since I'm no "rocket scientist" 😄, but I thinnnk I know at least 2 things that are wrong here 🙊. Please comment and tell me if you spot them? 😉🤓

PPS. 2nd and 3rd photo provided by my lovely customer 🥰

A Cat Cake in Pink, Black and White

Got to make a "The Great Wave"- themed cake today, and I was today years old when I found out that "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Hokusai is actually a wood-block print and not a painting 🙊
Anyone else with me? 🤭

And here's some more trivia for you:

* The original print is 25.7 x 37.9 cm.
* It was created around 1830.
* This print forms part of a series called "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji", and that little mountain in the middle (if you can make it out) is Mount Fuji.
* Mount Fuji is an active volcano.

You're welcome 😁

Also have to say that this might be the hardest cake I have done so far 🥴

My First Minecraft Cake, made for a little Minecraft fan 😊

Had been dreading making this one a bit because the game is all about "square bits everywhere", and my work is kind of "not very square" (if you know what I mean).
But surprisingly really enjoyed making it 🤔 and also love how it turned out 😊

PS. 🤭
PPS. “NOT OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG.”
(I checked out the copyrights for Minecraft and I have to write that part as per their Commercial Usage Guidelines 🤓)

A Little-girl's-favourite-stuffed-toy Cake

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Purrpurrrr?

It's another Mood Monster Cake 🥳
And the mood today was LOOOove 🥰

And here's hoping that you have (or will find!) someone in your life that makes you feel all sorts of heart eyes and hearts-all-around-you happiness 🤗😘💕

An Underwater Cake for an 8 year old boy whose cake requests inlcuded ombré, a shark(s), dolphins, and a bit of seagrass and corals 😊