Sweet innocence...

This was one of my first religious baptism cakes. Because the religion meant so much here, I needed to draw my inspiration from something that would encompass the message and meaning of the baptism. So, I thought to myself... where do people draw their religious inspirations from? The church of course!

The cake here was completely inspired by the beautiful architechture of the Catholic Church. The colour makes it suitable for a boy, but it is not too stereotypical of gender. I wanted the doves and wings in the gothic style windows to give the overall cake an innocent and uplifting quality, while the cake topper provides a warm familial quality. I went for subtleness in that the angel wings of the cake topper actually form a heart shape around the little simplified baby. (September 2007)