*Rook No. 17: recipes, crafts & whimsies for spreading joy*: Cake Art

"Crab Cake" with a squeeze of "Lemon"

Once upon a time there was a girl who liked art and loved to bake. One day, a friend encouraged her to put the two together, and in a short time the girl was sculpting cakes for events up and down the California coast and had her very own little boutique cakerie.

Along the way, she baked up something entirely different, wonderful, and even miraculous -- two little girls -- not made of sugar and spice, but of the real stuff: chubby cheeks, golden hair, and lots of giggles. The girl who made cakes became the mother who played patty-cake, and she came to love this job above all others. So the girl who became a mother set aside her whisk and her paint brushes, and set about devoting her time, love and energy to sculpting a beautiful and magical life for her two little cupcakes!

Here are a few photos of the cake creations from those earlier days of the girl and her boutique cakerie:

Bon Appetit!

While certainly very crabby, this fellow was actually a very sweet and rich chocolate cake on the inside.

His "squeeze of lemon" was made of sugarpaste.

Lalaloopsy Cake

This cake was my interpretation of the client's Peter Max lithograph (in the background).

This was designed for a book club called "The Bookies"

Inspired by Mary Cecily Barker's Flower Fairies

Alice In Wonderland Birthday Party

The client asked me to replicate a hammered tin plaque she and her fiancé had purchased in Mexico. It is made of sugarpaste, as are the scrolls banding the cake.