Our 10th Wedding Anniversary Dinner - Ports O' Call in Fiji...

What a perfect evening - we had booked to eat at what is supposed to be Denarau Island's best restaurant - Ports O' Call at the neighbouring Sheraton Hotel.

We caught the Bula bus (which leaves every five minutes and travels around Denarau Island - about a 10 mintue trip) to the Sheraton...

The dinner was absolutely perfect - the service was exquisite - and the food was fantastic...

We had such tasty homemade warm pesto and chive rolls (complimentary) when we arrived. It was a surprise when the chef's specialty of a Fijian chicken and rice dish with sweet chili sauce came out. We were entertained by a lovely pianist playing at a baby grand right in the restaurant and had an excellent tapas plate for our entree...this was (of course) follwed by a palate cleansing lime sorbet set on an half an orange and a slice of fresh pineapple...

Our mains were the best - Tim had a fillet steak on a chive and garlic bed of mashed potato with vegetables while I had French style rack of lamb with garlic, rosemary and mint with a beautiful serve of baked scalloped potatoes...

Dessert was perfect. Tim had a modern style tiramisu while I had the most delightful rich chocolate pudding...the chocolate decorations were miniature works of Fijian art!!

Definitely our most amazing wedding anniversary dinner - an absolutely wonderful evening!!

Our second day in Fiji...Teppanyaki at the Hamacho...

On our second day in Fiji we had breakfast at the Westin's Ocean Terrace Restaurant (which we did each day) - the food was perfect....and the fresh pineapple amazing!



For dinner we went to the Westin's Hamacho Japanese restaurant for Teppanyaki...we started with miso soup, then had gorgeous lobster dumplings. The chef then cooked us a mixture of really tender steak, chicken, lamb cutlets, fish, fried rice and noodles served with a salad and yummy sauces. For dessert we had chocolate and green tea ice-cream - and Tim tried some Japanese tea...definitely our best ever Teppanyaki!

Dinner in Fiji - the first night...The Steakhouse Bar & Grill...

We thought that we would be too late for dinner on our first night in Fiji, but we were able to get in at the Steakhouse and Grill at the Westin for dinner at 9pm (8pm in Australia) and had some really excellent steaks and amazing looking desserts...

Fi and Nigel's Wedding Cake

Fi and Nigel's Wedding cake was gorgeous - I loved the white chocolate raspberry swirl mudcake...and the roses were really beautiful...

Fi's Hen's Night

Fi's Chocolate Brownie Tower and Chocolate Mousse...mmmmm....

Tiffany Cake

My friend Catherine was having a 'breakfast at Tiffany's' themed party for her birthday this year, so had a go at making a bow with moulding paste brushed with some pearly powder. Used Eucalyptus paste and a bit of yellow colouring in vanilla buttercream to get the colour - inspired by Toni Braxton's wedding cake...silver hearts as inspired by the Elsa Peretti collection...

Retirement Dinner Cake

This cake was a white chocolate mud with cointreau (11" square) with a pale pink vanilla buttercream frosting for three ladies who are retiring from our school this year...

Fi's Engagement Cake

Fi's Engagement Cake was a chocolate hazelnut swirl mudcake...

"Old-fashioned chocolate layer cake"

This is definitely my most favourite eating cake ever - I made it for Mum's Birthday from a recipe in the Death By Chocolate cookbook by Marcel Desaulniers...I especially love the chocolate frosting - which included 900g of icing sugar! Topped with Cadbury chocolate covered almonds...

Mel's Baby Shower Cupcake Tower

The second time we did a cupcake tower was for Mel's Baby Shower - with choc dipped strawberries and little white choc chip cupcakes and vanilla buttercream frosting with little pink and blue nappy pins and dummies...

Triple layer chocolate brownie cake...

I made this 21st Birthday cake for Fay at work's daughter, Kate...they had a pink and purple theme and love chocolate. This is my usual Death By Chocolate recipe for the triple layer chocolate brownie cake with a rich chocolate ganache...decora
ted with fresh gerberas and chunks of marbled patterned chocolate with a few of my own African violets...

Sarah's 30th Chocolate Orange Cake

Mum made this for my 30th birthday party - a chocolate orange cake with choc orange frosting, decorated with Terry's Chocolate orange segments...

Emmy's First Birthday Cake

This was my first attempt at a white chocolate mudcake - it had a strawberry flavoured pink buttercream between the two layers and underneath the fondant icing. We used a cupcake for the ladybeetle.

Mum's Cream Sponge

Always Dad's favourite cake - Mum usually makes her sponge cake with cream and peaches or cream and jam - it never fails - we always made sure we were quick to get a piece before it went
at church socials and parties when we were kids!!

Granda's 80th Cake...

My usual Death By Chocolate recipe Triple layer brownie cake was made for Granda's 80th birthday - simply decorated with M&Ms...

Jared's Pig Cake...

When Jared turned two he loved pigs - so Nanna made him this cake - this is my favourite sort of cake - a plain butter cake with yummy pink (it has to be pink for some reason) icing - chocolate cakes can be such a disappointment...

Baked chocolate swirl cheesecake

For his 30th birthday Tim wanted a chocolate swirl baked cheesecake - this one was Kraft recipe I found online...

Room Service...dessert...

Room service at the Rydges, Port Macquarie - it was a bit hard to go out with Emmy and Jared so we ordered dessert in - Gingerbread and banana caramel stack with vanilla bean ice-cream and Cinnamon spiced creme brulee...mmm!

Georgia and Joe's Wedding Cake

Georgia and Joe's Wedding Cake...

My fav. version of the DBC cake - triple layer with strawberries...

Made for Mum's birthday...Yum!!!