Wednesday, March 28, 2012

J'taime Jennie



I made this cake for Jennie's 21st birthday. Jennie is my son's girlfriend and she speaks fluent french, though in 3 years, I have yet to hear her, so ... I'm told she speaks french.  Jennie is special, she's young and pretty and funny and sweet and sophisticated and styling all at the same time.  So this cake is a reflection of her and her special personality. 

The bottom tier was chocolate, covered in black fondant, because like I said, she has a quiet, somewhat mysterious side. 

The second tier is a combination of 3 layers of cake; chocolate, vanilla and strawberry covered in vanilla buttercream.  I covered this tier in white marshmallow fondant and painted pictures on it with edible food colour.  The pictures represent things that you would find while walking down any street in Paris such as: bouquets of flowers for sale on the sidewalk, ornate doorways, cafe's/bistro's, shops full of fashion and of course French pastierre's. 

The third tier is vanilla covered in a beautiful spot-on pink marshmallow fondant, wrapped in a thin, black ribbon with a subtle touch of bling.  This tier brings some of the girliness of Jennie to the cake. Finally at the top, the cake is adorned with 3 fun polka-dot cupcakes that are smothered in a white, fluffy, vanilla buttercream covered in pink hearts and pearls. One of the cupcakes is personalized with a little name tag using edible food colour. 

All of this is finished off with a gigantic fushia ruffled bow wrapped around the centre tier and a black and white polka-dot ribbon on the bottom to balance the polka-dot cupcake liners on the top.