flower power
This cake is a departure from the French style ones I’ve been making recently. I made this lemon layer cake with passion fruit buttercream for my mother (yes it was for Mother’s Day – so late posting, I know!), so I wanted it to be whimsical, light and Spring-like. Sometimes, it’s just fun to make a good old fashioned American style layer cake with buttercream!
At any rate, in this cake I wanted to experiment with these soy wrapper sheets I found at Japanese mega mart Mitsuwa, in Edgewater, NJ. They’re also available on Amazon here. I’ve even found it in the International section of a local A&P supermarket. The flower pattern was inspired by the popular Marimekko Unikko fabric.
For the recipe, please see this post.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Wow. That doesn’t look real, but I’d totally eat it – lemon and passion fruit, yum!
May 20th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Amazing! I love Marimekko patterns!
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I love how you’ve decorated this cake. I bet it tasted wonderful
May 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
How beautiful & novel that looks…PRETTY & very Spring!
June 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Trop kitsch! I am saying that not in a bad way! I love that cake, plus the deco remind me my child’s bedroom (like 30 yrs ago…)!
I really really really love your work
congrat!
See you
June 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I absolutely adore the colour combo!!
You feature some incredible material here Janet – appetising and pretty too!
Thanks for sharing!
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 am
Love it, love it! So, you used the soy wrappers and made the flower patterns? Very unique, can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, are you still a Daring Baker?
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Thanks to all for the nice comments.
Annie, I suppose I’m no longer a Daring Baker given that I’ve missed the past few challenges. Will post more at a later date…