Valentines Day - Free downloads

To thank you for your support and love over the years, here is a special FREE Valentines Day downloadable for you. You may wish to use the image for a Valentines Day card, or send the GIF file to a loved one.

Please note that these downloadables are for personal use only, and not to be used for commercial purposes.

JPG Image:

To download image, simply right click the image, and click on save.

GIF:

To download GIF file, simply right click on the image and click download.

Happy Valentines Day, lovers.

Hugs and kisses,

Blogs for Kassa USA

I am proud to be a regular Blogger for Kassa. If you're interested in what you can create with their products, please have a look at my blogs on their website (links below).  Kassa liquid chalk markers are available from my store. Alternatively, you may purchase directly from Kassa and use my coupon code (LETTERME) for 20% off. 

My first blog for Kassa was ranked in the top 10% of all recent Shopify store blog posts:

Custom Made Christmas Fairy Light Dome

My second blog for Kassa took the coveted title as "Staff Pick" for Amazon Spark and Amazon Prime:  

NYE Decor Idea: Personalised Champagne Flutes

'tis the season...

It's been a while since we last blogged.. The weather in Melbourne is warming up and wedding season is upon us. Since our last blog, my brother and my now sister-in-law tied the knot, and if that wasn't exciting enough for one little family, my sister and her fiancé also got engaged! So love is truly in the air here in Cake Me! land. 

Warren and Joy's wedding at Stones of the Yarra Valley.

Joy and Warren's semi naked cake, adorned with gorgeous blooms and hand selected fruit. 

Those of you who have been following us over the years would know that we take all of our cakes very seriously. Especially wedding cakes. Each wedding cake is unique and created with the bride and groom, for the bride and groom. Although each cake is personalised and unique, from strikingly bold to subtle, detailed fondant-finishes to rustic naked cakes, our signature high tiers consistently make each and every wedding cake that we have created, grand and elegant in its own way. 

The last three wedding cakes we have created celebrated three wonderful couples and their three very different weddings.  These three cakes showcase how dissimilar wedding cakes can be. 

Farzeen and Matt's wedding was held at the very glamorous venue, The Deck, Prince Hotel in St Kilda. Their gorgeous cake with intricate fondant cascading petals complimented the venue's window backdrop. 

Farzeen and Matt's wedding cake at The Deck, Prince Hotel. 

Cake Me's signature high tiers make wedding cakes appear even more grand and elegant.

Mary and Dat's wedding held at The Park in Albert Park had a very modern retro feel, with the extravagant chandeliers contrasting the jet black walls and the gorgeous windows looking out to the iconic Albert Park lake. We used contrasting textures to highlight the tiers, and gold lustre to compliment the bride's subtle gold theme. 

The simplicity of the buttercream together with the smooth gold lustre finish, complimented Mary and Dat's subtle gold theme. 

A stunning wedding centrepiece at The Park, Albert Park. 

Finally our most recent cake is Joy and Warren's semi naked cake for their wedding at Stones of the Yarra Valley. The bride chose the naked look for the rustic and vintage theme, but semi-naked to keep the cake elegant and structured. Each piece of fruit on the cake were individually hand selected. Gorgeous blooms adorned the cake to highlight the natural beauty of the venue, with the spectacular vineyards and rolling hills sitting modestly in the background behind the cake. 

Our cake sitting majestically in front of the amazing view of the Yarra Valley. 

Cut figs, plump blueberries, juicy raspberries, baby apple plums and green apricots. 

Wedding cakes have come a long way over the years from the traditional fruit cake covered with marzipan, to the infinite options offered to the bride and groom today. Wedding cakes today are exciting. They make a gorgeous centrepiece for the wedding venue and are no longer one-size-fit-all. Wedding cakes can truly reflect the taste of the bridal couple and the theme of the wedding, sometimes incorporating bold colours, some more simple and yet classy, others opting for heavy detailing, stenciling, and fondant-finishing, cakes with softer finishes of buttercream, tiers of hand painted lustre for high-gloss shine, to the raw elegance and simplicity of fresh fruit and flowers.  

We are looking forward to creating more spectacular wedding cakes this wedding season and to sharing them here with you all. To those of you who are deeply in love but not engaged yet.. Go and get down on one knee!!

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Cake Me!'s first blog entry

I love reading blogs.  Blogs can be so intimate, so vulnerable, reading someone's inner thoughts that they've put out there in the world wide web, but not professionally edited or premeditated.  I love reading about another person's passion, and seeing the photos that accompany the post.  I've always wanted to start my own blog but keep putting it off as I don't know whether anyone would be interested in hearing what I've got to say.  So I'll give this a try and see how it goes!

I thought it would be most fitting to start my very first Cake Me! blog entry about a cake we created for my mum's sixtieth birthday.  Mum has always been a low-fuss, low-key, simple, yet classy woman.  She has always put her family ahead of herself and has made uncountable sacrifices for us.  So it was quite a surprise for us when she announced that she was having a big dinner celebration for her sixtieth birthday.

From the very beginning, Mum has been a huge supporter of our cakes, so we knew she would like pretty much anything we created for her.  We thought her cake would be easy - something classic, classy, pink with roses.  I had the perfect design in mind.

Then my dad came into the scene. 

No, he's not a baker or cake decorator.  He knows very little about cake aesthetics.  But for the cake to be "perfect" he said it needed something "extra special, symbolic and traditional".  He said that cake should have a symbolic cake topper of the Goddess of Longevity.  For those of you who are South East Asian may know that this Goddess has huge ear lobes, carries around a peach in one hand and a walking cane in the other. For luck and prosperity, she is usually dressed in bright red with gold accents.  I had no idea what she looked like so I went to ask google for help.  Google came up with the male version:

*JAWDROP*... without offending anyone's culture or beliefs, I wasn't sure if this character/God was one I wanted on top of my mum's "simple, classy, classic" cake.

Firstly, everyone knows that red does not go well with pink.  Secondly, my mum is a very young sixty year old (still can't believe she's 60!). She is vibrant, beautiful, fun and happy. She doesn't look or feel a day over 40, so we were beginning to wonder if this was part of my dad's quirky sense of humour?  Joke or not aside, the question is, how do we incorporate THAT with our cake?! 

Anyhow, a "client's" request is a client's request.  And a VIP one at that.  So off I began sugar sculpting a female version of the images I found on Google, with a mumsy-twist. 

My brother was horrified.  He was the first to object to the walking cane and said it was "not our mum at all".  He didn't mind the topper as she was quite cute, so as a compromise, we swapped out the walking cane for my mum's most prized possession.. her iPad!  So... the result? A semi-old Goddess of Longevity with huge ear lobes, holding a peach in one hand and an iPad in the other. Pink flowers surrounding the base of the topper with the red and gold-accented costume, to help her blend back into the pink cake.

So what's the verdict?  What do you think of the final cake? Which cake do you like better?

PHEW!  There, my first blog entry done.  Thanks for reading!  xx

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