Hello, I was lucky enough to be a part of a great project with some incredible cake artists!

American Cake Decorating Magazine set the challenge “Create an exclusive trend inspired cake for the January 2016 issue” and 17 incredible cake artists took on that challenge (and THEN SOME!). Each designer took on one trend inspiration and created a cake that not only reflected their trend, but also showed us a glimpse of the future and how we envisioned these individual trends evolving.

My 2016 Exclusive Cake Trend for American Cake Decorating Magazine was…… “Southwestern Bohemian Chic”

Inspiration for this cake came from a mix of southwestern, bohemian and Native American styles. The cake was created with a warm palette of golden and bronze metallics to contrast the stark white tiers and embellished with succulents to harmonize with the structured yet organic theme.

The steer skull was sculpted from white modeling chocolate and covered in a thin layer of white gumpaste. The dangling feather and scattered succulents were all made from gumpaste.

The textured white tiers were created from a handmade texture mat made using royal icing and foam core. The other two patterned tiers were created with an applique technique.