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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!
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Here’s a quick and sexy shot of what I’m working on this week: An assortment of 700+ sugar buttons. The wedding colors are gold and pale pink with accents of this deep blue, and these buttons will eventually adorn a four-tier pink velvet cake filled with three-berry buttercream.
These buttons are a labor of love and have been so fun to make. Yes, I’m a little insane to enjoy what others might find maddeningly tedious, but there are so many ways to make new and interesting buttons, I couldn’t help myself.
Some were cut with aspic cutters (tiny), some were molded, some imprinted, and some were hand-shaped, like the little pillow-shapes you see here.
We have access to a lot of great buttons here to use for reference, but not a lot of deeply textured ones, so I after a long search I found several perfect ones and had them shipped from Thailand, then made molds of them. You see them here as the largest gold button and the top-most gold button with the rose in the center.
 I also discovered an edible shine liquid thanks to the fine folks at Divine Specialties in Woodland Hills. It took some hunting online to find it, but it adds the perfect touch. All the buttons will have a gloss shine on them when I’m done, lending to the trompe l’oeil effect. Here’s a pic of the shiny vs. unshiny effect. What do you think?
When the buttons are finally in place on the cake sides, I’ll pipe fine gold thread looping and trailing in and out of the buttons around the cake. I’ll post pics as soon as the cake is done — can’t wait to see it complete!!
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