I’ve been rather intrigued and fond about
gradient or ombre designs on cakes for a while now. Last week, I was given the
freedom to make a cake for a 10 year old birthday girl. I was told that she
likes Pink and Purple, Butterfly and Dragonfly.
I was kinda occupied last week and didn’t
manage to create a gumpaste butterflies. Hence, I only played with the colours
and decided that simple is best. I’ve been seeing a lot of gradient design on
cakes in Pinterest lately. Fortunately for us, a talented lovely baker did a
video on how to create the design. Hence, I was really inspired to make the
same.
The design was quite simple to make. I
just feel that it has a lot of wastage. But from my experience, I should be
able to save more the next time I make this design.
Rainbow cake is becoming a rather popular
demand in Singapore. I wonder how long the fad will last. It’s a very pretty
cake but it is so time consuming to make. I’ve never really thought about
selling it but it seems like it’s one of the hottest cake people are ordering
now. I’m not really sure who was the creator of this special cake but for me, I
got to know about this wonderful, unique idea from Whisk Kid. She’s another
talented baker, photographer and writer. I love her pictures!
Getting to the main point about this post,
I’m actually a firm believer of short and simple in every sense. But of course
now I’m just talking about cakes decoration, for this post. I love simple cakes with
clean, simple lines and chic at the same time. I love flowers but nothing too
much. I’m more of a minimalist. It’s hard to market these kind of cakes in
Singapore as grandiose and elaborated cakes are more of a norm here. However,
I’m pretty sure more and more people younger generation will be more open to simple
cakes soon.
Although it’s simple, the cakes should
create an impact in some ways. It should be eye catching and very, very
pleasing to the eyes. At the same time, it should taste marvellous too. My main
concern lies in the taste more.
Sometimes, I wonder how people can just sell whatever they think they
can do/make. I pride myself on the quality, quality of work/end product and
quality of ingredients. I hope to educate people on why some of my cakes might
be more expensive. One have to understand the thought, hardwork, passion and
love that goes into one product.
Anyway, these is one of my favourite cakes
that I did so far. I hope to come up with more ‘short and simple’ designs. I love the part where it looks so simple outside but when you cut it up, you will be greatly surprise by the cake. I wish I am able to see people's reaction when it happens.
