New Beginnings

Ive decided to move on from Bluebells Cakery and onto new adventures at the new Cornwall Park Cafe. Im looking forward to everything this amazing cafe has in store for me and everything that it will mean for me in the future.

Here are a few of my first couple of cakes for Cornwall Park Cafe.

S'mores Cake 

Gluten Free Lemon Poppyseed

Lemon Floral Cake

I was asked my my neighbour and longtime family friend to make a cake for his daughters birthday, so, as inspired by work, came up with this floral beauty. It is a lemon cake with lemon curd, cream cheese frosting, berry meringues, passionfruit macarons and lots of fresh edible flowers. Such a beauty.

Bluebells Cake Decorating

My dream job, and only at the age of 19...Imagine where I can go from here.

Bluebells Cakery has allowed my creative juices to flow and I have loved all of my cake decorating skills I have learnt. There is nothing like seeing the reaction of the customer when they see your cakes, oohing and ahhing.

Here are a few of my creations over the past week!

My Homework

So much has happened in the last few months. I have decided to finally pursue my dream since I was little of going to culinary school. So I applied! AND I got in!!! I seriously cannot wait to start...can I just start now? Its going to be quite a journey, challenging but oh so fulfilling and exciting.

 I have loved my job at Bluebells Cakery and working in the front of house with the customers is a lot of fun because everyone is so happy (except those few people who are in such a hurry and order coffee without a response to "Good morning, how are you today?" Instead they just reply, "Regular flat white, one sugar." But other then those people, its so nice to see how happy everyone is.) Last weekend since everyone was sick/away in the back, I got to step up and decorate in the back! I decorated loaves, mini cupcakes, filling orders as they came my way. And on Sunday, I really stepped up and decorated almost all of the cupcakes for the shop! (Thanks Karla for your guidance :) ) Anyway, I can't wait to see what my future holds at Bluebells, but I love my little family. <3

I was told to do some practice at home of doing the famous Bluebells signature swirl on the cupcakes,  and its MUCH harder than it may seem. But regardless, Im thrilled with how they turned out.





So I also made homemade pork and cabbage dumplings!! I even made the dough and rolled each one out one by one! Took forever and a bit fiddly, but TOTALLY worth it! They were such a hit.

Cupcakes x2!

So last week I started work at Blubells Cakery in the front of house staff and was inspired by all of the beautiful pastries that we sell, so I decided to grab by copy of their cookbook and whip up a couple batches of their cupcakes, but put my twist on both of them.

The first cupcake I made was a Lemon Coconut Cupcake. It is a vanilla bean cake with with a lemon curd filling and vanilla cream cheese frosting, topped with coconut threads. 

The second cupcake I made was a chocolate cake with a dulce de leche filling and a dark chocolate ganache frosting.

Miscellaneous Baking

I have had a relaxing summer and spent some time baking several different things for friends and family.

One of the things I made was a triple chocolate chunk salted caramel brownie.

           

 

Another one was a vanilla bean cupcake filled with chocolate ganache and hazelnut praline shards.

       

       

Banana Dulce De Leche Cake

For Oscar's 17th Birthday, I made him a banana cake with alternating layers of dulce de leche and chocolate ganache filling topped with a vanilla bean buttercream and garnished with almond praline.  Everyone loved it and went down a treat!