So this was the last half of my day yesterday and boy was it fun! A good friend of mine is a professional photographer, Renee C. Gage. To say the very least, she is amazingly talented, so much fun, and so very warm...really an awesome chick...anyhoooooo. She and a few of her amazing photography friends are doing a workshop this week. They are basically photographing different stories and artists and telling these stories through their photographs...I was lucky enough to be one of the stories....well my CAKES were the real story but it was fun hamming for the camera though....a little weird at first, but fun.
This is the end result of MANY hours of hard work, I had 3 of the flowers made ahead of time and the others I demonstrated for them while they were here. I had the hummingbird sculpted but not painted, I painted for them too, the cakes were made and stacked and I carved frosted covered and decorated for them while they were visiting. The cake of course, didn't turn out at ALL the way I had planned but that is the beauty of art and some artistic freedom, you can still end up with something beautiful. I am happy with it.
The bottom half is Amaretto Cake filled with Amaretto Buttercream and fresh strawberries. The top half is Chocolate Cake filled with Peanut Butter Buttercream, Raspberry Jam and fresh Honey filled Raspberries. The very top neck portion is toffee bit rice crispy treats.
Now the poor cake just needed to make a 1 hour car trip over some dirt roads to it's destination in Livermoore Falls. I could not sleep a wink last night worrying about it. Everyone says..."It's out of your hands now, you don't have to worry" but that is MUCH easier said than done when it is your artwork at risk before it's final destination...THAT is why I normally deliver the cake. I sure hope it made it ok!
Another fun part about art???? GETTING DIRTY!! This is my hand after luster dusting leaves. Nice huh?
Another fun part about art???? GETTING DIRTY!! This is my hand after luster dusting leaves. Nice huh?
Have a beautiful day sweet readers! Take good care and find beauty today!
Oh, and be good.....but not too good :D
14 comments:
That is totally beautiful. Sorry you got so stressed! This seems to be a very stressful business to be in, but worth it!
I'd love to hear about some of your recipes, that amaretto cake sounds divine!
This is such a fun story! And I am so impress with those flowers... Very nice cake!
Wow that cake is incredible! I am lost for words! Just beautiful!
That is gorgeous. What a great job and how fun!
This is so pretty. I'm especially fond of the bird.
Absolutely stunning! And I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't sleep because they are worrying about a cake :-)
Carrie was such a great model, but more so a great ARTIST. The cake she made for us was gorgeous AND yummy!!! I was not in the room when they cut it-but I did eat some after the deed was done. Thank you Carrie!!!
I asked fellow photographer, Alan, to cut the cake at our Journey slideshow on Thursday evening...the cake was so beautiful and the flavors were out of this world! Carrie, you were a delight to photograph. Thanks!
Sorry I have been MIA, I have been so busy, but it has made me feel so bad not to have time to comment. What an AMAZING cake.
Now that is a work of art, beautiful!
You have truly elevated cake art to fine art! You just get better every day!
WOWWW! Is that really a cake??
Your blog is fabulous :) you must have SO much patience to do what you do.
Rose
WOW indeed...that looks amazing and so much work, beautiful!!!! I am excited about the Maine cupcake challenge...hope it has stopped raining by then!! Also I LOVED the fondant topped cupcakes on Cupcaketakesthecake recently...also beautiful...you are the Queen of Fondant!!!...Patricia
Wow! Such stunning & gorgeous cake! I love the flowers and the bird too!! You are so talented!
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