I am a little late with my Monday Favourite this week after a busy weekend away with the family – I do however have some amazing cakes to show you this week by Michelle who is The Cake Chef.  Michelle’s business is located in Newcastle, New South Wales and just take a look at some of her beautiful work.

Michelle is a qualified Chef & passionate foodie.  She discovered fondant cakes nearly 4 years ago when she did a course to learn how to make prettier cakes for her 3 kids.  Immediately addicted to the world of cakes she has since completed her Masters in cake decorating and loves teaching others.

The Cake Chef started 3 years ago and Michelle’s favourites are wedding cakes – she loves the beauty and elegance.

And for her most popular flavour – dark chocolate mud with salted caramel ganache and lemon poppy seed mud with lemoncello ganache.

Please visit Michelle’s website here and her facebook page here.

Happy Monday to everyone – I hope you had a fabulous weekend.  The beginning of spring here in Australia and such a beautiful weekend it was.  Today we are meeting Nicci from Frosted by Nicci.  It is great to see so much new talent out there in the cake world – you may remember the gorgeous yellow cake Nicci made from the recent Australia’s Sweetest Morning Tea – you can see it below.

Here is what Nicci had to tell me about her new and growing business.

I have always loved baking but probably about 2 years ago I enrolled in a cake class and everything just sky-rocketed from there!  I also have 2 other crazy cake friends (we call ourselves the crazy cake ladies!), and when the three of us are together….!  The passion has always been there but has really come along over the last 12 months.  I so much enjoy putting every ounce of my being into every cake that walks out my door, I truly truly love it!

My business has come together in the last 6 months.  I’ve had certain ideas in my head for a long time, like my logo, etc which I waited for over 12 months to get done by Sarah at Style Me Gorgeous.  I knew exactly what I wanted so just had to wait till she had a spare spot!  I’m very excited about the next 6 months, as my dates seem to be booking up very quickly (squeal!)

Nicci’s most popular cake so far would have to be white mud with chocolate mud close behind.

To see more of Nicci’s work visit her facebook page here

Photography on last image Bliss and Bloom Photography

 Some truly gorgeous cakes to show you from a  recent find of mine – Sherie who is The Flour Girl in Brisbane!  Her cakes are simply beautiful and when I asked her about her love of cake decorating and her business this is what she told me.

How long ago did you find your passion for creating beautiful cakes?
About 8 years ago I worked fro a family owned business that produced Vanilla Extract and flavours etc, I was actually in an accounts/admin role but quite often I would alter recipes I liked to include the Queen branded flavourings and then i’d bake it and one of the son’s who worked there would photograph the cakes for the recipes section of their website.

It wasn’t long after that I made my first ever sculpted cake using fondant for my best friend’s baby shower, it was a pregnant belly cake, from there I got the bug and it just grew into an obsession, I got better & better and decided to launch my business the The Flour Girl, it wasn’t long before I had to make a decision to keep it small or leave my day job and see where it took me, so that’s exactly what I did, I quit my job and now I run the flour girl full time, it’s like a dream come true!

How long have you had your business?
I’ve now had The Flour Girl for around 2 years and everyday I wake up with a smile on my face because I know what the day has install for me.

What is the most popular flavour of cake from your customers?
My most popular flavour by far is Pineapple & Coconut with Coconut Buttercream layers, its scrumptious!

To see more of Sherie’s stunning cakes please visit her facebook page here or her website here.

Gorgeous photography by Sarzy O Photography