Monday, January 12, 2009

Grasses and toasted almond sand dunes of cheesecake

I was approached by a bride whose husband did not like any other type of dessert except for cheesecake. Her wedding theme was "beach"... the kind of beach you would find up north Ontario. This was extremely exciting for me because the ideas were just flooding my head!

The cakes are all cheesecake, which I sculpted on slopes again and put on risers of various heights to look like sand dunes. I then toasted some ground almond to look like sand you would find on a pebbly beach. I coated the cheesecake and cut out a hole in each one to insert a bud vase holding some blades of tall grass, wheat stems, and lavendar.






I was aiming for a calm, serene, and relaxing feel to the cake... like how you feel when you walk out to a perfectly calm private beach that no one else seems to be on when you arrive. (September 2007)

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