Masterfoods/ Masterchef cakes!

This week we were contacted by the wonderful people at Mars Foods (aka Masterfoods, Uncle Ben, Kan Tong etc) to create 3 Masterchef cakes for a party to celebrate their wonderful relationship with Masterchef, and it's hosts!

After being given some initial ideas by the company, we suggested creating Mystery Boxes. Great part of the TV show for sure, and what better surprise, than for them to be filled with cake!

They may be just a basic rectangular shape, but there's nothing basic about these boxes of cake. The smaller boxes were four cakes, stacked and iced into a 6.5" high cake. They were also delicious! White chocolate and raspberry flavour - our most popular combination. The large, or should I say gigantic cake, was 6 cakes slacked, requiring 24 internal dowels, and at 10" high, and 15" long, it took two people just to lift it off the table! Again, an incredible flavour, Milk Chocolate Mud Cake with Cookies and Cream Filling.

Why three cakes? Well, with 300 people to feed, and round the clock shifts, Mars Foods wanted not only there to be cake left for the night shift, but their own cake, so they didn't miss out on the celebration. What a wonderful company! I think more big business should take the time to think about all their staff in this way. Made us proud to be a part of it!

So here are some pics of the cakes. Hoping to get more over time of the actual festivities, and see just who sunk their teeth into our cakes!!

Grand Opening Party of our Sugar Rush Cakery in Mount Hutton!

Last week we had an amazing time, with friends, fans and clients, at our Grand Opening Party. It was a great chance for us to let our hair down, showcase our products, and get real feedback on our new sweet treats.

We were extremely lucky to have Roger from Popcorn Photography there who graciously took photos of our candy bar. For anyone looking for a wedding photographer in the Hunter Valley, check out these guys! Mere and Rog are an awesome couple, with awards, and the fastest turn-around time I've ever seen in the biz. Highly recommend you see for yourself.

Guests included Renee Bell -  an amazing couples photographer, and the best baby photographer we have ever seen, in the world!, Leighsa from Michelle-Leigh Photography, who did all our new in-store images, Hello Naomi - one of my best friends, and a cupcake extraordinaire, Valerie from White Magazine, as well as marketing guru's and web designers. It was truly a who's who of Newcastle & Sydney, and we felt very blessed to have them all in our store!

As we suspected, our Brownie Bites were a huge hit! No one can seem to have just one! These little babies are now available to two different sizes of bags, one makes the perfect wedding bonbonniere, whilst the other large 40 pack is perfect for eating with a cup of tea, in front of an open fire...or the telly!

 We have also added some more awesome little treats. Our Rosewater meringues are so divine, like eating perfume - and yet somehow that's a good thing! 

We discovered that every bag of these sold out that night! Other sweets we now have in the store are coconut ice, marshmallows, cookies and our very cool rock candy swizzle sticks.