Wedding sweets

I've been busy again this month but this time creating these beautiful brooch and pearl inspired cupcakes, cookies and pops. The colours were ivory and gold.

Close up of the pops, they took me ages to create.

Matching brooch and pearl cookies.

A few weeks later we had a lovely brooch inspired wedding shoot. Styling was done by Little Big Company and Photography by Lee Bird Photography. I had to create cupcakes, cookies and pops in silver, white and pink.

Close up of the cookies.

The lovely cupcakes.

Annike's ice cream party

Well I can finally share Annike's ice cream party that we held back in November 2011, yay! The reason for all the secrecy is because the party was featured in the Phyllis Hoffman Celebrate Spring 2012 magazine (see photo above). I was so excited to receive my copy of the magazine last week and saw how beautiful the feature looked. Thank you Celebrate for featuring my humble party xx

The ice cream party inspiration came after I was asked to make an “ice cream” cake for one of the designers at Kikki K who created the new Sundae collection and I fell in love with all the gorgeous Spring pastel colours http://www.kikki-k.com/shop/category/collection/kids-stationery-sundae/ . Immediately my head was spinning with ideas. I knew Annike, my daughter, loved ice cream and that we would have real ice cream at the party as well as ice cream related
activities (they made ice cream out of fabric, cotton wool and paint on mini canvases). But I also knew that realistically we could not have ice cream on the dessert table as it would all melt. So instead I brainstormed and created a menu of items that would fit into the Sundae theme. Some of the food items we had was choc pops (white chocolate melts flavoured with raspberry, caramel or vanilla candy oil then tinted in the pastel colours, poured into an icy pole chocolate mould and left to set), Ice cream pops (cake balls dipped in pastel white chocolate then placed onto mini ice cream cones), ice cream cookies, ice cream sundae cupcakes, mini strawberry mousse, mini milkshakes (each glass rim was dipped in white chocolate then dipped in sprinkles), mini popcorn served in Robert Gordon striped ice cream cups, fruit cones (fresh strawberries, grapes
and water melon served in white paper cones) and macarons (lemon and strawberry).

The cake was a 2 tier lemon and raspberry buttercake filled with raspberry buttercream, the ice cream topper inspired by the Sundae collection.

Each child went home with a party box filled with ice cream pencil, ice cream note pad, icy pole eraser, bag of ice cream lollies and icy pole soapcicle.

Vendor list:
- Party styling and food by Leoni Jena from Just call me Martha (http://www.justcallmemarthaa.blogspot.com/)
- Photography by Mel Riddell (http://www.melriddell.com/)
- Venue and ice cream cart prop (including the 4 lanterns) by Petit Atelier (http://www.petitatelier.com.au/)
- Party
favour tags, suitcase, eraser, pencil, notebook and wrapping paper by Kikki K (http://www.kikki-k.com/shop/category/collection/kids-stationery-sundae/)
- Invitation and matching ice cream print by The little Humbugs (http://www.etsy.com/shop/thelittlehumbugs)
- Pink wire Ice cream holders, lolly vessels, party plates, party cups and serviettes by
The Little Big Company (http://www.tlbc.com.au/)
- Pastel milk bottles and flowers by Lily Chic Events http://www.lilychicevents.com.au/LCE/Welcome.html
- Pale yellow cake stand and lollies used on the ice cream by Sweet Style (http://www.sweetstyle.com.au/?page_id=63)
- Mini pastel yellow cupcake stand by Tout Mon Amour (https://www.facebook.com/#!/ToutMonAmour)
- Birthday girl’s pale yellow and pink ruffle pettiskirt by Penny’s Pettiskirts ( https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Pennys-Pettiskirts/110417595694905)
- Dessert table food labels by Confetti Prints ( http://www.etsy.com/shop/ConfettiPrints?ref=seller_info)
- Favour soap popsicles by KC SoapsNmore (http://www.etsy.com/shop/KcSoapsNmore)
- Variou white vases for the flowers by Ikea (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/)
- Free printables on the Celebrate website by Ham and Pea Design and Paperie http://www.hamandpea.com/

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Birdy cake and cupcake set for Christening

This is what I was busy completing this weekend for a Christening function. I don't normally like recreating my designs but this is one of my favourite signature cakes and the last time I made this was for my niece two years ago. The birdy design is created by Tasha from A Little Sweetness, you can actually buy matching invites and tags in Tasha's shop. The top tier is a 6"inch round and 5ïnch tall cutting cake made from choc mud, this is surrounded by vanilla and chocolate cupcakes on a custom made cupcake tower.

Close up of the birdy, for this cake I made him 3 x times the size of the one I first created, would love to one day make him into a full blown 3D cake. Now THAT would be super cute :-)

February cakes

As February melts into March I thought I'd better show you all what I've been up to before I get too far behind in my blogging :-)
The above cute Giggle and Hoot set was created for twin girls as I tried to make Hoot look a bit more girly than what he normally looks on telly.

I also made these cute matching cookies.

Some pastel Princess cookies for Äpples & Jam".

Then this unique boy on a swing cake and cupcake set for a Christening. The design came from the customers invitation.

I used edible paper for the cupcake toppers, I love how this turned out.

Then we had this super cute 16th birthday birdcage cake, I really enjoyed making this cake as it was unique and I got to play with some flowers and birds. This cake was actually very tall, it was 6"inches round and about 10"inches tall! Not a lot of fun to cover in fondant I tell you lol

My very 1st ruffle cake, I did a quick 2 hr ruffle course in Greensborough and this is the result. The bunny topper was a left over job that was never used :-)

He POP-ED the question Engagement breakfast

When Daniel decided to propose to his long term girlfriend Nadia a few weeks ago they wanted to celebrate their engagement in style.
Daniel is a Graphic Designer for a local newspaper with a love for comic strips and asked Just call me Martha to incorporate something fun, funky, unique but not too girly.
Since Anders Ruff already had the Super Hero theme in their party range I approached them to do a custom design for the engagement party without making it too childish.
The fun Anders Ruff graphics were used as buffet labels, champagne flag picks, favour tags and graphics for the edible cupcake toppers and cookies.
The colour palette of red, white, black and yellow worked well within the Pop Art retro theme while giving the design a funky yet romantic edge.

Since the engagement party was a breakfast celebration some of the following food was served.
- Raspberry jelly and yogurt shots,
- mini pancake stack with fresh raspberries,
- apple and cinnamon muffins topped with cream cheese,
- strawberries and cream mini flans.
- Mini lemon cheesecake cones with blackberries
- Champagne and orange drinks

How cute are these "He proposed, she said yes!"" muffins, the graphics were actually used from the Anders Ruff design and printed onto edible paper.

Nadia is a chocoholic so requested the fun ruby red choc smooch lips as well as the cherry ripe chocolate mud triple layer engagement cake. The couple loved the Valentine cake I created last year, but to make the design a bit different I made the cake taller and added lots of fondant hearts instead of the bunting.

Each guest took home a mini red letter box favour filled with Pop Art sugar cookies and Oreo heart sprinkle pops.

So what did Nadia take home as her favour? A 2 carat sparkling diamond set in platinum of course!

Thank you Amy Atlas Events and Anders Ruff for featuring our party.

Vendors:

Styling, cake and food by: Just call me Martha www.justcallmemarthaa.blogspot.com
Photography by: Enraptured Photography http://www.enrapturedphotography.com/
Printables and Graphics by: Anders Ruff http://www.andersruff.com/
Party props, cake stands and compotes: Little Big Company http://www.tlbc.com.au/

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day yesterday :-)

Polkadot and balloon 1st birthday party

This weeks adorable cake and sweets was requested for a girls 1st birthday party. The theme was balloons and polkadots and the brief was simple, minimalistic with lots of white and a hint of pink. The cake was a lovely fresh raspberry buttercake and complimented with mini vanilla cupcakes.

I also made some matching balloon shaped white sprinkle pops, flavour Oreo and raspberry swirls.

The miniature balloon cookies were simply embossed with a letter T or a number 1.

For the favour bags I created these cute but very simple polkadot balloon cookies. The polkadot image was printed on edible paper and then applied to the cookie surface.

I enjoyed making these simple but sweet treats, sometimes less is more :-)

Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone!!

Next week all the kiddies go back to school and I'll be back to crafting, baking and styling again. Some exciting things in the pipeline for Just call me Martha this year and hopefull I'll be able to share some of the goodies with you as they happen in the 1st part of the year.

So far in 2011 I've completed my 1st goal and that is to have my kitchen registered. So as of this month I am an officially registered kitchen yay..... I still have a lot of things I want to do and my list is as long as my arm but one step at a time I say :-)

Anyway, keep your eyes peeled as I will be posting some lovely blog posts over the next few weeks.

xxxxxx
Leoni