It's All The Rage

Ombre.  It's all the rage these days.  Whether it be hair, a dress or a wedding cake ombre is the new fun trend sweeping the world.  This meticulous process of color looks harder than it is, at least for frosting a cake.  I can't speak for hair stylists.

Color gradation occurs often throughout nature and it is no wonder why we love to recreate the phenomenon.  Think of sunsets in the desert or a perfectly ripe avocado cut down the center.  The change is so minuscule, so precise that our eyes can't even determine where the change of color happens.  I think it is wonderful, though sometimes daunting, to try and achieve this precision that nature has brought to our attention.

Even though this craft seems rather new many artists have been cultivating this talent of blending colors for centuries.  There are too many throughout history for me to mention, but currently I have one favorite artist who is a master at fading one color into another.  She is Kaori Fukuyama.  A painter who creates visual experiences with color.

"Aperture No.2"
Kaori Fukuyama, 2014

Not only does her work trick the eye with undecipherable graduation of color but also by creating optical illusions using this technique.  Check her work out here.
It. Is. Amazing.

Now if I could only do that with cake!

So In Love

Aaahhh.... love.  I'm not talking about romantic love, but the love of weddings and wedding cake.  Well, maybe those could be in the category of romantic love too.  I know I've fallen in love with a few pieces of sweet decadence giving my heart away for just one more bite.

One of the best parts of the wedding cake process is introducing new flavors or flavor combos to a bride and groom for their big day.  Sometimes, though, couples have their own love affairs with certain flavors or pastries they've enjoyed since childhood.  In this case the bride and groom were in love Love LOVE with eclairs.  So we took on the challenge of creating a cake that mimicked the tasty pastry.

The cake seen here is filled with bavarian cream and covered with chocolate ganache. The dark brown hue of the chocolate provided a dynamic background to showcase the sugar flowers atop.  A dynamic cake inspired by a dynamic bride and groom.

My beloved and I were lucky enough to try this creation at the wedding.  I only wish I had taken a picture of my piece of bavarian bliss but was lost, starry-eyed in love, as I savored every last bite.

So in love are we two,

No one else but me and you.

So in love, (Two, so in love.)

So much in love. (Two, so in love.)

xo,

Connie

Tiers of Joy and Happiness

You must be asking, "are those flowers real?"  Yes, they are real handcrafted edible sugar flowers.  Each of the Peonies, Carnations and Green Button flowers were made petal by petal.  This wedding cake brought the opportunity to learn how to sculpt the Peony flower and invent the process for creating Green Buttons.

I must confess that this cake almost outlived all of its nine lives but persevered until the knot was tied.  After a few broken flowers, a frosting slip-and-slide, tropical flooding (I would've walked across the Rio Grande with this cake above my head to make it to the wedding finish line) and humidity that you could drink the cake was still standing.

If these four tiers are an omen of strength and perseverance then the newlyweds are truly blessed.  They say rain is a sign of good luck on your wedding day and by the amount of water that fell from the sky early Saturday morning this couple has many lifetimes of good fortune.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

xo

December Wedding

Winter can be one of the most enchanting times to have a wedding. 

Celebrate with blue and white hues along with the seasonal red and green! 

Congratulations to the Happy Couple who tied the knot last weekend!

Roses in Winter

This cake is stacked with the traditional vanilla white 

cake filled with whip cream and strawberries.  

Vanilla Buttercream coats the cake and 

light blue fondant is the final layer 

blanketing all three tiers.

Adorned with white roses this cake is a simple 

elegant center piece for the dessert table!