Have you thought about flowers on cakes? Sylvia Weinstock, famous American cake master, died at 91 this week. Ten foot tall wedding cakes. Baker and cake-decorator are understatements here. Her specialty was buttercream and stencilled patterns. Sometimes there were thousands of hand-painted sugar flowers. The repeated quote is: "We never count the flowers on a cake. Rather, we add, and add, and add until it pleases the eye."
The wedding cake for Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara's wedding was estimated at $50,000. That's US. If you search for Sylvia Weinstock most famous wedding cake and look at the images, there is an amazing display of creativity and vibrant colours. More like floral arrangements. Who would guess a cake is beneath these flowers.
The world of extravagant wedding cakes is covered in this article HERE. There seems to be quite a few wedding cake makers who are sculptors of sugar. She didn't make the largest wedding cake of all times. That was chefs at Mohegan Sun Casino - 6.8 tons of cake in the US in 2004.
These all remind me of the Christmas trees at the Fantasy of Trees. The trees are like confections, pleasing the eye.
Here's Santa from a few years ago. This year it was outside with distancing so not the best scenes.
