May Cakeup : Your Finest Baking

For our May cakeup we were simply thrilled to announce that Canberra's finest of fine dining venues, The Boathouse by the Lake, had offered to host us. To go with the fine dining theme of the venue we set the theme as "Your Finest Baking". That proved to be a great idea as our amazing bakers wowed us with fine looking and fine tasting cakes, cheesecakes, cupcakes and macarons.

The Boathouse by the Lake was a stunning venue for our Sunday afternoon soirée with beautiful water views, sunlight streaming in through the floor to ceiling windows, a fire crackling in the back ground and plenty of room for our bakers and guests to mingle in. We are extremely grateful for The Boathouse management for not only hosting us but doing it in such exquisite style. 

Bec from Sweet Tea once again provided our bakers with a range of beautiful cake stands that suited the theme of the day.

Thank you to all our bakers for your hard work in showing us your finest creations and let the photos do the talking...

The scene was set for a beautiful afternoon at The Boathouse by the Lake

How lucky were we to have this beautiful set up?! 

Cake, wine, champagne.... Thank you to The Boathouse for your finest service and hospitality

Beautiful cake buffet set up with cake stands by Sweet Tea

Vanilla fondant cake

Chocolate and Nutella layer cake with that exquisite chocolate lace work that had everyone amazed (there will be a video tutorial coming up on this technique so watch this space)

Pecan, fig and maple marscaporne cake

Chocolate, caramel and bourban ombre cake

Lemon cake with lemon curd

Chocolate torte with strawberries and cream with redskin macarons

Rum and raisin cake

Salted caramel macarons

Salted caramel and vanilla cheesecake

Pear and Champagne cupcakes

Lemon cake

Persian Love Cake 

And the cake buffet awaits you...

And now time for lots of happy snaps of our wonderful bakers and guests. Judging by the smiles a good time was had by all!

Our fourth cakeup was a fine success and we couldn't have done it without our creative bakers and enthusiastic guests. A very special thank you must go to The Boathouse by the Lake for providing us with an incredibly special venue...

Special thanks to

The Boathouse by the Lake for hosting us

Sweet Tea for providing us with lovely cake stands