Let me tell you, those types of cakes are the most challenging but yet the most exciting! Not only I, as a designer, have to tie millions unrelated (well, to most of us) items together and make them work, but it also requires a person who orders this cake to work with me and participate in creation as it evolves.
It all usually starts from a phone call or an email, where customer explains what he/she is looking for. It is my part then, as a designer, to digest and develop his or her idea and create a unique art project with respect to the taste of my client and the purpose of it being created.
In today's project, the cake was created to celebrate Birthday of a wonderful young woman originally from Italy, who has a lovely ginger cat Simon, practices yoga, loves shopping, enjoys riding her customized Vespa scooter, cooks and appreciates good food, spends some time writing (plans to write two books of her own), chocoholic, leads a healthy life style, funky, fashionable and energetic... Well, those are only few that ended up being translated into sugar. It is her husband who amazed me at how much he actually knows and cares about her. He gave me more relative information that I was able to use in this cake, but he definitely drew a nice picture of what she is.
It took us almost two weeks to put this project together, and we were exchanging emails a few times a day. Well, we did great, I think :) Let me know how she liked it, C.!
Yes! The headlight is actually working!
She wares Lululemon, Abercrombie, and " Being Erica" is one of her favorite TV shows.
Her cat Simon is sitting on her books (go ahead, eat his whiskers!)
The requested keychain
Edible map of Italy
And some edible tissue paper, too! :)
Inside is Dark Chocolate Cake with Dark Belgian Chocolate Truffle filling, 24 servings. Cake topper and all other parts are edible.
