Be-ribboned tea cakes

I have been away from the kitchen way too long now.. It's been months since I last decorated a cake, and I'm getting rusty at it ~_~... Well, anyway, this one is for an 18 yr-old girl's birthday. Cupcakes are indeed cute and fun to decorate, and with these ones, I was having a ball painting 'em! Underneath the white caps of icing lie soft & fluffy vanilla cakes, topped with lemon-y sugar syrup.

Thoughts of an autumn wedding

A good friend of mine is getting married on Autumn next year, and I'm enlisted to be her maid of honor. Well, matron of honor to be exact, since I'm married and all.. I'm very happy for her. When I was overseas for a year with my husband, she kept me updated on the progress of her wedding planning (which wasn't that much, considering she had more than a year to prepare it..) 

Once we return to Australia this year however, things changed quite a bit. Well, a big part of was because I fell pregnant; and though I'm happy about it, even if it wasn't really planned and it came as a surprise to both my husband and I, I had to step back from the matron of honor privilege since the wedding is just a couple of months after the bub's delivery; I wasn't even sure whether I could fit into the matron of honor dress yet then!!

But at least I can still do her wedding cake. Yeah, I love wedding cakes. Perhaps because it represents the hopeful couple's aspirations; layers of sweet cakes stacked up high with white/off-white and pastel colours dominating the event. It's all sweet, lovey-dovey and  wonderful stuff. Especially since this wedding will be a good friend's and it resonates with our wedding a few years ago, also in Autumn (in fact, our wedding days are only a day apart from each other!!)

With Autumn theme in mind, and orange being her preferred colour, I can't wait to start making the cake & the decorations soon; before this tummy balloons up and gets too heavy for me to move around. I can't imagine what my wedding florist had to go through before; she was 7 months preganant and still working full time to decorate our wedding venue with flowers.. Must've been really tiring for her!!