Vanilla Lily Cake Design has reached 3,000 likers. It's a lovely milestone and very exciting to have so many lovely people who like my page simply to enjoy the work that I love to do.
In honour of your support I'm offering a very special giveaway:
- A personalised cake art tutorial for 4 - 5 hours. You are welcome to learn the cake art of your choice in a one on one setting on a Saturday or Sunday or the time can be split over the both days if you wish to learn particular flowers that may require overnight drying time.
- For those who live interstate, you will win either a gift certificate in your name for a private cake art tutorial OR the latest Debbie Brown Babycakes cake art book. It can be your choice if travel is not an option to Brisbane, Qld for you.
To enter the giveaway you must comment below on this blog post with the following information:
- Your first name and surname.
- Answer the following question in 25 words or less: why do you wish to win a private cake art tutorial? Your answer does not have to be a poem or particularly eloquent. It is simply a chance for me to learn what the art of cake means to you.
- Entries close 31 August 2011. Winner will be announced on my blog on 3 September 2011. I will post the announcement on my Facebook page also.
Terms & conditions of the giveaway:
- If you choose to take the tutorial, the date must be mutually beneficial to both of us to fit around my cake schedules.
- What you choose to learn must be something I can do!
- If any specific materials are required that I do not have, you will be required to purchase these before the date of the tutorial.
- The giveaway covers the tutorial only. If you wish to learn the art of ganaching and covering a cake, you will be required to contribute to the cost of ingredients & cake boards. All other items such as fondant, floral paste, colours, dusts, ribbon, cake boxes etc I am happy to provide free of charge.
Best of luck and if you have any questions or require further clarification in relation to the giveaway, please email enquiries@vanillalily.com.au
I get jealous when I see the amazing things you do,
ReplyDeleteand I can't help but want to attempt do it too!!
Amanda White
Name: Laura Phillpotts
ReplyDeleteWhy i would love to win: I would love to give a beautiful and delicious gift to my family and friends, and for them to know i made it myself <3
Nicole Buckley - because I have tried so many times over the years to do a TAFE course but they always got cancelled because they didn't have enough numbers and now the private courses are quite expensive but I have always wanted to learn from an expert to improve on what I have been trying to do myself at home :)
ReplyDeleteCherise Lauder
ReplyDeleteI have only recently started to really 'decorate' cakes and found it to be my 'escape' from everything hectic in life. My daughters (aged 4 & 12) love 'learning' with me which I find SO special!
I would love this chance as it is a long time dream of mine, to be able to make beautiful cakes and character toppers for my 3 gorgeous little girls on their birthdays. To be able to work in with you at a mutual time would be fantastic.
ReplyDeleteJenny Ponder
Rebekah Ellery
ReplyDeleteReason Why: I love making things from my heart for my amazing family & friends..this would just top it off learning your techniques in cake making.
Mardee Mitchell - I love to experiment with cake decorating. It really is beautiful watching a project come together and seeing people enjoy it. I would love to learn properly...
ReplyDeleteJenee Ris:
ReplyDeleteMy partner and I have made two cakes so far and they flopped could be that we made the fondant ourselves. We need Some professional guidance :)
Carissa Matthews - it would be awesome to make my sons birthday cakes, especially with him, some much more special to share with him.
ReplyDeleteMelanie Saward
ReplyDeleteLearning by experimenting has suited me so far, but I have so many questions for a professional!
Janice Woolf : I've done quite a few cakes now but I've never had any lesson. I want to know how you do those damn perfect sharp edges!!!
ReplyDeleteMichelle Shaw
ReplyDeleteI was lucky enough to do 2 group workshops with you and learnt so much but still not enough! I have so many questions!
A private tuition with an amazing cake artist... Wow.. Is that not like a guy winning a coaching clinic with his favourite sports idol!!??
ReplyDeleteBy Dimity Emery
Laura Hollis
ReplyDeleteI just love to see the look on my families faces when i present them with a homemade cake. I would love to be able to make beautiful roses for my wonderful mum!!!!!
Kerri Sherriff
ReplyDeleteI love baking and decorating cakes but I am terrible at it. I would love to learn from you as your cakes are beautiful and inspires me to keep trying.
Caroline Grant
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a chance to learn from you and see your wonderful work and creations in person xx
Alicia Bakker
ReplyDeleteQu: Why would I like to win?
A: Why wouldn't I like to win a private lesson with someone whose cakes are inspirational?! I am learning that cakes are my passion, my escape from "motherdom". I love bringing a smile to people's faces & your cakes bring a smile to mine! Except I might cry if I don't win!
Priya Bajpai
ReplyDeletei want to make my daughter a cake for her first birthday based on her favourite rag doll and this class can show me how.
I would love the opportunity to learn new skills. Im new at "cake art" but enjoy it immensley, especially as my children love helping me. Plus they get such joy from something made by their mum, with their help, of course.
ReplyDeleteJoan Coddington...
ReplyDeleteI would love the opportunity to learn new skills. Im new at "cake art" but enjoy it immensley, especially as my children love helping me. Plus they get such joy from something made by their mum, with their help, of course.
Sarah Pertzel
ReplyDeleteI love baking, its always been a passion and to make a cake that brings joy to lots of people is the most rewarding thing, I think. I love looking at the amazing cakes you make it always inspires me to try new things! (Cake Boss does as well).
Andrea Quayle - your cakes are always so amazing and meticulous. To me cake making brings me relaxation, enjoyment and I love the joy that giving something homemade brings other people.
ReplyDeleteMelanie Williams - I just realised that i have skill to decorate the cake even only basic decorating. I would like to do course but i dont have so many times to do it, i would like to do private course but its too exspensive for me. And now i have a chance to learn it from the best cake artist i've ever seen..
ReplyDeleteTracey Kruger......You are an inspiration, and I'd love to be able to decorate just like you,I love making cupcakes...Id love to learn different forms of piping techniques.
ReplyDeleteMichaela de Prinse I am a working mum, but would love to do something for myself and i love making cupcakes and cakes but need the skills to make them look great
ReplyDeleteI would love to win, so I can make beautiful cakes worthy of the lovely comments you receive on yours! Love your work!
ReplyDeleteShamone Hogg
As a Mum of four young boys and great baker of cakes, this would be ideal for Lisa my sister in law.
ReplyDeleteName: Jo
ReplyDeleteI'd love to improve my self taught skills which would help my confidence in my own decorating.
Kellie Perkes
ReplyDeleteI would actually like to win it for my husband. He loves making cakes and works so hard that it would be nice for him to be inspired to keep reaching his goal
Sharon Elkins
ReplyDeleteI would just simply love to absorb some of your talent.
I dream to one day run my own cake store. All I know is what I have learned from Youtube and trial/error. I love your work and facestalk your page daily. Id love to learn sugar flowers from you.
ReplyDeleteJemma Wickham
Im a wife, mother of 3, a carer and I work at the local school aswell. Cake decorating for me is my 'ME' time
ReplyDeleteSamantha Browning
Your cakes look amazing, and I have just started baking lots of cupcakes for fun recently, almost every weekend, and would love to improve on my decorating skills.
ReplyDelete-Shierly Ngo
Janelle Spear
ReplyDeleteI dabble in cake making but would love to learn how to do it properly so they look spectacular likes yours!!
Christine asiusin
ReplyDeleteLove to make cake like u do ..ur creation make me crazy for deco.
Wendy Alexander
ReplyDeleteI would love a lesson in wired flowers or a peony! I love the craft and wish to improve my skills!
Andrea Browne
ReplyDeleteTo me the cake is the epitome of any event. Its when all the love that you have poored into the occasion ends with everyone gathering around the person who we are there to celebrate.
It would be so wonderful if I could learn to make a cake as beautiful as the love that goes into making them.
And watching my kids faces when they first see the cake....What more could a mum want!
Nerissa Raddatz
ReplyDeleteI suffered severe Post Natal Depression last year and starting cake decorating in January this year is what has helped lift the long dark cloud. I'd love to learn more about the passion of mine as I haven't been able to do any classes yet.
Leigh Maloney
ReplyDeleteI'm a terrible cook! My partner encourages me but one day I'd love to surprise him with a gorgeous, tasty treat made by me.
Joanne Watters
ReplyDeleteThere is so much joy in the making, receiving, admiring and eating of these beautiful creations. I've just started and can't wait to learn more!
Kerrie Stevenson
ReplyDeleteSometimes I make a cake and I'm so proud of it, I think it looks fantastic. I get on facebook and then see what you professionals are producing and as inspiring as they are, it sinks my heart a little. I would just love to reproduce the clean lines that you always have.
Nicholle Edwards
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this for a friend, she is self taught and has done some amazing cakes and has so much potential!
Sally Stoel
ReplyDeleteI just love everything that I see, and would love to just once make something as amazing...
Sara Rizvi:
ReplyDeleteCake art is what I live and breathe for. I am but an amateur at the moment, but to be able to create works of edible art is something that has consumed my hours and days since the past few years. There is nothing more in the WORLD that I would like more than an opportunity to learn more in this field.
Siti Syed
ReplyDeleteI have been teaching myself cake decorating for 10 years, now I would love to expand my skills professionally by learning from the professionals.
Rachael McLaren
ReplyDeleteI want to create the beautiful things you make, for me nothing is more frustrating than not knowing how to create my vision :)
Natalie Wright
ReplyDeleteCakes are my passion and my escape from reality. They are how I show my love to family and friends
Kristin Hansen
ReplyDeleteI'd love to learn to pipe more intricately so I can expand my horizons! Cake decorating is my sanity time from my 3 little boys!!
Annette Ibrahim
ReplyDeleteWhy I would love to win: It would be a great experience to learn something that you love. After loosing everything in the flood and have a new born baby and 2 girls (2 & 5) and working full time this would be a great experience and to do something for myself that I really enjoy doing and making people happy. To win this would be like doing something for myself and having the opportunity to show people what you can achieve when you put you mind to it and it would be a great opportunity to relax once in a while without my busy schedule
Annie Palfrey I had one course and my kids said the flowers looked like teeth I was gutted .you can help me I know ....
ReplyDeleteRachel Orth
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn new techniques to improve my cake designs and especially to spend time with a professional and pick your brain, i love your cakes so would love to have the oportunity to spend quality time learning off someone i aspire to be like.
I love seeing people smile when they see and taste the amazing cake created for them. I’d love to improve my skills and continue spreading smiles by creating something absolutely stunning!!....Mallory Josephson
ReplyDeleteKylah Carter
ReplyDeleteWow what a great opportunity! I would love to win the tutorial to learn how to make giant sugar flowers.
Kathy Cope
ReplyDeleteDoing what you love is one thing. Doing it with flair means practicing, learning from experience and from innovators - like Kate at Vanilla Lily.
Kathy Cope
ReplyDeleteI wrote 2 entries and this one didn't make the cut - thought it might give you a smile:
A private class with Kate?
That’s heaven on a (cake!) plate ..
Fondant flower? Sugary shoes?
If I win – oh, what to choose?
I am entering my gorgeous niece Emily Roche. She is a young nurse with a passion for cake design, having made the cake for her Grandmother's 80th and her twin brothers' 21st. She is a very special young lady and I'd love to see her have this opportunity.
ReplyDeleteLouise Elms
I would love to win a one on one lesson with you. Perfection on a cake is how i would describe your work.
ReplyDeleteCassie muller
Larissa Ramsay
ReplyDeletePreheat the oven of learning of excellence
Mix in a day of giggles and fun
Bake to my hearts content
Decorate with the best
Enjoy the one of a kind Treat of a lifetime
Natasha Crouch
ReplyDeleteI'm a cake-a-holic. It's been 3 days since my last cake... :) I am new to caking, I have minimal bad habits (yet) and want to learn from one of the best! You are an inspiration :)
Karen Coate
ReplyDeleteDoing cakes is 'my' time and I love the look of joy when you present a cake to someone. I have sooooo many questions....
Rachel Barrett
ReplyDeleteTo be able to create a beautiful cake and share with people who know its my passion, thats the reason. It makes my heart sing.
Alicia Hills
ReplyDeleteI need you! I need your time! I need you teach me your talent! I need your help! Please please please pick me!
Rebecca Borradale
ReplyDeleteCake decorating brings back beautiful memories of watching my Grandma doing it. Building on those skills and creating more memories would be an incredible experience.
Erin gosling
ReplyDeleteI am new to cake decorating but I love it so much it is turning into quite a hobby
I would love to learn more about creating cakes like u do yourself. From melb more than happy to travel!!
Christina Baxter
ReplyDeleteI just want to be able to do edges like yours!!! Is that too much to ask? :p
Leanne Gentile
ReplyDeleteIve re-discovered the love of baking with my son, brings back amazing memories of baking with my Grandmothers. Love to learn more!
Kamaia Campbell
ReplyDeleteA private lesson from the guru, it's like Karate Kid, the Master & the Grasshopper...wax on, wax off!! I think it's amazing Kate that you're offering your precious time & knowledge to share with someone. You're inspiring & amazing at your craft. :)