Early this year I had the amazing opportunity to photograph for Faye Cahill’s first ever book! Full of gorgeous images of her stunning cakes and all the steps by steps required to recreate them. It will be published in September this year and you can pre order it now on Amazon.

In this post, Faye created a very unique cake of her Norwegian tradition – Kransekake.

Faye: Growing up, my grandmother was like a second mother to myself and my six siblings. She often spoke of her father who was a Norwegian sailor and the Oslo branch of his family. Since then I have been fascinated with anything Norwegian. I decided I wanted a kransekake as one of my wedding sweets and my sister Maree found and adapted the recipe and baked it for me.

To assemble, fill a piping bag with royal icing and use a number 4 round tip. Pipe a line of icing around the bottom side of the largest ring and secure it to your stand or base.

Continue to pipe icing onto the underside of each successive ring until the tower is assembled.

Using a number 2 round tip, pipe fine scalloping around each ring, starting at the top and finishing at the base.

Faye chose the Australian native flowers and mini pears to decorate the Kransekake.

• Who: Faye Cahill 
• Home is: Below the flight path in Marrickville. The inner west has now been my home for over half of my life
• Family origin: Irish and Norwegian
• I can’t live without my: Cats. Home wouldn’t feel the same without them
• Occupation: Wedding cake maker of Faye Cahill Cake Design
• Dream Job: I love my job, but if I couldn’t do this I’d love to be an architect
• Currently I am obsessed with: My beautiful baby
• Childhood taste: Eating the cream off the top of a milk bottle. Porridge in winter with lots of milk and brown sugar
• I will always have in my pantry: Brown rice, chick peas and lentils
• I learnt to cook from: Necessity! In a big family everyone needs to pitch in
• The one place I must visit: Oslo
• Go to meal: Chilli beans
• 3 unforgettable meals: I’ve eaten at some amazing restaurants, and one highlight would be a birthday dinner at Quay. I also have happy travel memories of Mexican street food, especially the black corn tacos. In Paris we splurged on an afternoon tea at Laduree with beautiful fine teas and I fell in love with their canelles!
• Perfect Night In/Out: These days I can’t go past an early local dinner at a good bistro like The Union Hotel or Vic on the park, bedtime for Ramona and a lazy DVD on the couch curled up with Andrew and the cats
• My piece of Sydney: I love the vibrant community and diversity of the inner west
• I do my groceries at: Banana Joes in Marrickville
• Guilty Pleasure: Oreos
• Who does the dishes: Well, the dishwasher does the hard bit, but Andrew and I take turns stacking and unpacking it