March 2008

This beautiful cake is by Maryam, a UK fashion student turned Canadian cake designer. She does amazing things with fondant and sugarpaste. This vanilla sponge cake with buttercream filling is adorned with fondant circles in shades of blue. See the metallic blue dragees, embossed stitching on the lower left fondant ribbon, and sparkly sugar sprinkled upon the smooth shoulder of the lower layer? I love the details!

I’ll definitely be featuring more of Maryam’s work here in the future. If you can’t wait, go visit her at Icing Dreams. Thank you, Maryam!

I think Japanese confections are some of the most beautifully intricate and interesting. These are wagashi, and the information with the package says:

Each shape represents seasonal items and/or flowers. Each is hand made using red and/or white bean paste with natural food coloring. Usually served for Japanese tea ceremonies.

They are almost too pretty to eat, but I think I could manage it! Which do you like the best? I think I’d take the pink cherry blossom in the bottom left corner first. Yum!

Thanks to moriza for allowing me to show his photo here!

Take a look at this beautiful cupcake from Cupcakes Nouveau, in Miami, Florida. Although I’ve never met a cupcake I didn’t like (sometimes the ugly ones are super tasty!), I couldn’t take my eyes off of this one when I found it on flickr. I contacted the talented baby-cake creators at Cupcakes Nouveau, and they gave me permission to show it off right here.

I love the little purple flowers perched atop the generous swirl of frosting, and the ribbon around the middle makes it look so fancy and elegant. If I were going to host a beautiful springtime garden brunch, I would want to serve these cupcakes! Thanks to Cupcakes Nouveau for today’s cupcake cravings!