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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Two Sweet little cakes

Two sweet little cakes I worked on recently turned out to be simply beautiful! Both were small...single tiers. One was covered with white chocolate fondant and the other frosted with a yummy buttery, butter-cream, and decorated simply with flowers, buds, leaves and ribbon. Both very different in color palette, but definitely my style just the same.
My favorite of the two was having the honor of making my grandmother's 90th birthday cake, a coconut chiffon with ginger lime butter-cream and toasted coconut butter-cream fillings. As a child I remember her yard filled and overflowing with the most beautiful fragrant flowers.
The funniest part was my uncle had to work hard to convince her that you could EAT the flowers! The look on her face when she tried one was priceless!
(I know not many people eat the flowers since mostly they can taste a little blah, but I love to flavor mine with a wonderful orange oil and they do taste quite yummy.)

My Grandmother, Mamie Agnus's 90th birthday cake:




The other sweet little cake I made for my bosses wife, as a surprise for a hard weeks work.
It was a very yummy 4 layer vanilla bean cake with a orange curd filling, covered with white chocolate fondant.

Mrs D's cake:


I have also been furiously working  on some sugar paste flowers and several new cakes, and very happily scheming about some exciting new plans and ideas for the  year. More news and updates about those plans coming soon!
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures as much as I loved creating them.
See you later.  Ta-Ta!