Basic white cake has been tinted lavender and kicked up a notch with lavender flavoring and culinary lavender buds. There is (trust me) nothing more luxurious than the aroma of lavender cake warm and fresh from the oven. It’s so delicious that I almost cannot get the icing onto it before it is gone. I frosted this cake with butter cream icing and cloaked it in lavender tinted fondant with a matching fancy fondant border from a fondant mold. The decorative top is loose pieces of fantasy flowers and leaves that have been assembled into a presentation with icing glue.
Those cute little cone shaped buds and leaves I created with 50/50 fondant/gum paste and tinted with a fine brush and petal dust to create a slightly organic presence. There is a fine balance that one cannot cross when merging elegance with organic…..hopefully I have stopped just this side of to much. Sometimes art is really knowing when to stop!