By Jade Glen
Unicorns continue to top the trends for girl’s birthday parties, with a beautiful tiered unicorn cake the essential centrepiece.
For the boys, the classic Batman, Spiderman and Lego themes remain eternally popular.
The Cake Stop in Beaconsfield can help parents with cakes to these or any other themes – providing home cooks the supplies and advice needed to attempt them at home or making professional cakes to order in its commercial kitchen.
Local mother and daughter duo Melissa and Joanne Tucci took over the long-established business this year.
There is a wide range of cake decorating supplies to purchase, regular classes for both beginner and advanced cake makers, and a selection of cakes, cupcakes, muffins and macarons to have with a coffee in store.
“We have pretty much everything – your cupcake cases, boards, boxes, a range of cake mixes, all the cutters, moulds for everything, all the icings, buttercream, ready to flowers, and so many cupcake toppers,” Joanne said.
Customers wishing to get their birthday cake made by the professionals can come in store with their own ideas or draw inspiration from a book of Melissa’s previously made birthday cakes.
Those that wish to attempt a cake themselves can refine their skills through The Cake Stop’s regular classes.
“We cater for everyone – we just had one class with a man who wanted to make a birthday cake for his wife, and he had never made a cake before, and one man just interested in learning about cake decorating.
“Melissa guided the both of them and got a really nice cake at the end of the class.”
Joanne said The Cake Stop had everything parents needed for a child’s birthday cake.
“The biggest trend at the moment is still unicorns – that’s a daily request. For the boys its Batman, Lego and Spiderman … but there’s no limits as to what we can do.”
