Handed The Reins

I have been asked, "what do you do?". I have never had an answer when it came to my cakes. It was time I had an answer.

I make cakes that encompass a strong flavor profile with a modern sensibility. I do not want want to be given someone else's idea that I need to duplicate-- that has already been done. In a nut shell: a cake must taste as good as it looks.

I was was asked to do a cake- with little to no direction: whatever you want to do, the party colors are orange and green. The only direction was given on flavors: How about vanilla cake with chocolate. That is what I don't do: vanilla- boring. Flavors should be rich--maybe Tahitian vanilla bean with bittersweet chocolate. I asked the client to trust me- stretch. Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream with fresh raspberries. Vanilla cake with Expresso syrup and chocolate Buttercream.

I still had to tackle the orange and green- this was tough- green or orange is not exactly an appealing fondant color. I talked it over with my trusted assistant- my daughter. Monarchs she said. That was it. A cascade of monarchs trailing down a beautiful Kelly green cake. The cake tasted as good as it looked. By the way, the client called and said: "the chocolate cake with the raspberries was the hit."