Planet Cake Update - Week Ending 04.07.09

Greg Cleary will be arriving this week for 2 x back to back 3 day sugar flower workshops, his facilitator will be the lovely Anna Maria Roche and the workshops are booked out. It is so lovely to have such a dear friend return to Planet Cake, I personally cannot wait for the workshops to begin!

Margie created an amazing birthday cake this week for Spice News ~ great work by Margie and a seriously impressive cake



I would like to introduce our latest casual staff member Stuart Girling, Stuart started as a Facilitator on Sunday assisting Jessica with her Basics 102 class, he did a fabulous job and will be facilitating many more classes in the future, great work Stuart, welcome aboard! Stuart has been decorating for well over a year he has a history as a Chef and we were introduced to Stuart when he attended the Foundation workshop last year, he has a great eye and unique creative perspective, I am confident he will become a valuable addition to our team.


I would like to give a special thank you Anna Maria in the last 2 weeks she has taught and 3 new workshops and the Madhatter, these are all at our most advanced level for our most advanced students, she not only performed very well but her workshops in terms of design, timing and outcomes were spot on, thank you very much Anna Maria, I have already started receiving feedback from delighted students and I am sure there will be much more, to my knowledge there is no decorating school in the world that is pumping our this level of complexity and quality with such incredible results, I feel exceptionally proud. I would also like to compliment our students who really stepped up to the plate and attempted their workshops with the creative and professional attitude required at this level of cake decorating, the results speak for themselves, and in their own right were exceptionally good and will become positive advocates for our craft.

Basics Masters – Topsy Turvey

Basics 109 – Madhatter

Finally the week ended with one of my most memorable occasions at Planet Cake thus far as Norita Abdullah and Linda Harden graduate from the Basics Series, completing every single one of the 10 workshops to become Planet Cake Master’s, this effectively means they have received training for every modern cake shape with exception or the hexagon. Here they are accepting their Planet Cake crystal masters trophy, Planet Cake logo for their websites, Handi turned up especially for the presentation. Congratulations Linda & Norita it is a rare achievement and a first in Planet Cake’s history.



Have a great week everyone, I very much look forward to an exciting week ahead!

Paris x

Morning Show

Another birthday cake for the Channel 7, Morning Show to celebrate their 2nd birthday by Margie,

Featuring figurine hosts Kylie & Larry blowing out the Channel 7 candle (stroke of genius Margie)

Planet Cake Week Ending 27.06.08

We have had a very busy week at Planet Cake with the Basics series coming to conclusion after teaching all month, we have had students with us from all over Australia and Singapore producing some of the best cakes I have seen in a long time, I am really confident that these students will be going back to their own businesses and taking cake decorating to a new level - great stuff!

Its a WRAP - Planet Cake's first Basics 107 class graduates with some amazing Wrap Cakes, this class teaches students how to construct cover and decorate an inverted cake, they also made their own sugar flowers - no mean feat and they pulled it off brilliantly with Anna maria Roche Teaching!





Norita & Linda complete Basics 108 with Anna Maria



We will have an amazing week coming up as we climax with the Basics series (101 to Masters) and we have 2 students completing Masters who will have completed every single workshop in the series, I feel so emotional about this I could blub. This week they are learning Basics 109 (the Madhatter) and Masters (the topsy turvy)photos will be on the way soon.

Margie and Handi created some lovely cake this week although Handi really does not seem to be enjoying his Madhatter??





P.S. I forgot about this gorgeous cake by Margie last week, how sweet is this?

Masterchef Cake Challenge - Link

Check out the Masterchef cake challenge with Handi Mulyana - Direct Link (episode 45)http://www.masterchef.com.au/video.htm?vxSiteId=fefcb37d-8e38-4dbc-a768-e8bb503ed226&vxChannel=CatchUpTV&vxClipId=2664_451MCTT110609&vxBitrate=300&vxTemplate=MasterChef_Index.swf&vxClickToPlay=false

Handi was sensational on Masterchef!

If you missed Handi's sensational appearance on Masterchef tonight you can catch him via official Masterchef website http://www.masterchef.com.au/episodes.htm tomorrow.

It was a fantastic performance by Handi and I have had so many text messages, as many people have said to me, it was great to see the contestants realise how hard it is to decorate a cake!!

p.s. Handi is on in the first half hour of the show..enjoy!

Planet Cake on Masterchef - Wednesday 7:30 Channel Ten

I have some incredibly exciting news, Handi Mulyana will be featured on Masterchef on Wednesday night on Channel 10. For weeks we have been keeping it a secret, however Planet Cake was asked to participate in the wedding challenge and Handi spent 12 hours filming with contestants a couple of weeks ago. We are all very excited as it was not just an opportunity for Planet Cake and Handi but a great opportunity for cake decorating to be taken seriously by the food world, and it will be interesting to see just how easy these guys find cake decorating??

A big thank you to Handi who did an all nighter filming and helping to put together the challenge and all that involved! Please watch Master Chef on Wednesday 17/06/09 7:00pm for an our and half special!

http://www.masterchef.com.au/home.htm

Weekly Update - Week Ending 13.06.09

We had Mathew Lindsay with us this last week; he was a delight to have around and proved himself to be extremely useful. We wish Mathew the best of luck in finding a job in Melbourne. In the meantime he will be assisting Fran and Rouvelee with our Melbourne workshops and gaining some more experience in the Melbourne market.

We did a celebrity cake which unfortunately we cannot show you, however we also made a lot of other cute cakes.

I have included this cake by AM not b/c its complex, but just b/c it’s a great example of how effective a simple cake can be, right image, right colours, right execution

Margie’s magical adventures with Pooh, Eye Ore, Piglet and Tigger – what an amazing cake!

Finally what baseball girl wouldn’t like this cake, I am feeling sporty just looking at it (for a millisecond)

More workshops next week, Basics 105 (2 tier suitcase) with Anna Maria and Basics 106(springtime) with Handi, the courses will then be continuing for a few weeks. I will be off to hospital on Thursday to have my wisdom tooth removed so I will not be posting next weekend...boooo

Update - Week Ending

Watch out for our appearance on 60 minutes this Sunday

7:30pm 14/7/09 - Domestic Goddess Story.

This last week we have done a number of promo cakes, including one of the best cakes I have seen for some time. We also have also had visitor this week which wass exciting, we all got to work with Mathew Lindsay who has completed all of our courses in Melbourne (I think he likes us) and came up to Sydney to spend a week up here, it was great to have him join us in the production kitchen.


First up is a Baby Shower Cake made for a celebrity, so cute I think we may have a thousand orders based on this one!

This cake below has been in the pipeline for some time and was created for the opening night of Steel Magnolia’s (the play) which I believe Margie & Steve attended, this cake has the sort of magic that makes me go weak at the knees, I think that feeling comes from knowing that it would be the best of its kind in the world – congratulations Margie! Oh yes I forgot to mention the cake inside is white chocolate cake dyed red, eeewwwwwww!

I am not finished yet, this realistic figurine (based on the birthday girl) of Alice in Wonderland, took my breath away, Margie’s figurines are sensational, much to my frustration I cannot find a photo of the girl so you could really see the magic of Margie’s work.

The problem with having so many good cakes in one week is we get to the others and its kinda like ‘oh yeah and then there are these’ we kind of forget how brilliant they still are!

Week Ending 22.05.09

Margie created some really superb cakes this week (of course) including this flying duck for a NZ corporate celebrating at the Opera House and this giant cricket ball for Cricket Australia cut by Ricky Ponting to celebrate the count down of 50 days until the ashes – yehhhhhhhh!!

Then finally another cake that Margie created, this incredible dragon boat, I have included a photo on the table so you can grasp the scale. This cake has a really sad story as it was for a lovely lady whose 11 year old son passed away a year ago and wanted to thank his old Dragon Boat club for their incredible support in the last year – when she saw the cake she burst into tears, who said cake decorating was just about cake?? Pretty humbling stuff, the cake was fabulous!

Planet Cake Update Week Ending 16.05.09

It has been a really hectic we and I have lots of exciting news to tell you (big breath) here we go!

The really exciting news is that at very late notice on Monday afternoon we were asked to participate in the reality TV food show Master Chef. Handi was sent to the Master Chef studio as some of the final contestants of the shows competition were placed through a rigorous surprise challenge, Handi acted as both expert and guide and did a fantastic job, photos to come and the episode will be airing in June.

I had a wonderful book signing with Anna Maria (doing demo) at Shearers bookshop in Leichardt last Friday, thank you to everyone who turned up!

Handi and Fran will be teaching workshops in Melbourne for the next 10 days! They will be kicking off with Basics 101 tomorrow good luck guys – Melbourne Blog: http://planetcakemelbourne.blogspot.com/

I featured in a documentary called the Wedding Makers shown on the ABC on Thursday night, which was a documentary revealing a behind the scenes look at the wedding industry.

This week Handi and Ritzy both entered cakes in this years Annual Bobby Gold Smith Bake Off, raising money to improve the quality of life for men and women living with HIV http://www.luncheonclub.org.au/site/index.php?pageID=130 –

Ritzy, Hello Kitty look like I have never seen her before!

There were some fabulous cakes this week, these are two from Anna Maria with figurines by Margie, and both cakes were absolutely superb



Margie pulled off an incredible feat and made this dynamic building, what an incredible cake!!!

I thought I would stay back after hours and record for your viewing pleasure the covering of this most ludicrously difficult shape!