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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 Two weeks ago we were honored to be asked to be a part of Unveiled: The Bridal Event held in Canon Gardens, just next to the Montage Beverly Hills. This outdoor couture event was a fantastic way to see the best of what Southern California vendors have to offer discerning brides.
Superfine contributed the above Mocha cake trio, featuring three shades and flavors of fondant — right to left, we have a chocolate fondant, white chocolate, followed by mocha fondant on the far right. Each cake features a variety of styles of sugar “fabric” flowers, gold buttons, and a couple of ribbons featuring secret love notes taken directly from the actual notes of the bride and groom that inspired this trio.
The note on the smallest cake (above) says “I’ll love you forever.” If you look closely at the chocolate cake, you’ll see a little ribbon on the ledge. That one says “You’re the bomb, babe.” Secret notes like this help personalize a cake the way nothing else can.
Presented along with our cake was a tasting-cake version of our Opera cake. Each slice was made with almond cake stacked with French mocha buttercream, then iced with chocolate ganache and topped with a thin sheet of 23-karat gold.
I wound the show down with friends and champagne on the adjacent Bouchon patio where we could watch the crowd mill about as the sun set. Some high points of the day included seeing friends at 100 Layer Cake, Green Wedding Shoes, Bouchon Bakery, the Montage (met and chatted with Richard Ruskell, current contestant and all-around upstanding chef at the Montage currently competing on Last Cake Standing for Food Network), and Margaret Rowe Couture Vintage Jewelry.
It was a great day and finishing it off with Kristeen LaBrot and Krista Mason was the perfect ending. Can’t wait for the next one!
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Today I delivered a delicious cake trio and 100 of our Fleur de Sel caramel wedding favors to Kim and Steve’s wedding on the Dandeana yacht in Marina Del Rey. Rain was predicted for today so I brought all kinds of special cake-protection paraphernalia to keep it dry, but miracle-of-miracles, the sun came out in a crystalline PERFECT sky!! I was so happy for the couple that they got this lovely weather.
The trio features housemade ivory fondant decorated with ivory molded sugar lace appliques and hand-painted 18K gold bands. The smallest cake on the left is our North Beach Torte (chocolate cake with cappuccino-tiramisu icing), the center cake is our Citrus (Lemon cake soaked with lemon simple syrup and iced with orange icing), and the cake on the right is our interpretation of the Opera cake (almond cake soaked with a dark rum-coffee simple syrup then iced on top and bottom with French mocha buttercream, then a dark layer of chocolate ganache in the middle).
I love lace on cakes, but wanted to do something less orderly and traditional as you see on most cakes. So I worked with this modern bride to create more free-flowing lace patterns on each cake. On the smallest, there’s a “fan” or arch of lace just on one side of the cake consisting of several different, overlapping lace patterns and pieces.
On the cake on the left (pictured above), I laid together long pieces of lace occasionally accented with tall appliques of lace flowers to echo a kind of wave effect (we were on a boat after all…). The center cake is the star of the show featuring a regular pattern of lace at the bottom only, and thicker gold bands. I knew Kim was ordering this bling’d out topper, so I wanted to make that a focal point by letting it sit atop a less-busy tier.
I’ll leave you with this last detail shot of the smallest cake — so cute! I think it would be great on its own as a birthday cake — let me know if you want one!  Have a great week everyone,
Andrea
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Superfine Bakery is an appointment-only couture bakery specializing in custom cakes for clients in the Los Angeles area.
We are inspired by all facets of the baking tradition, but at Superfine we focus on the art of the edible celebration centerpiece. Our aim is to reinterpret and reframe traditional forms to bring modern, luxurious cakes to your event and make your cake as spectacular as the occasion itself.
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