presenting my Fifty Shades of Grey cake for the Be My Valentine – Movie Nights Collaboration

Fifty shades darker is this monotone three tiered cake, textured with royal icing and edible sequins to create a luscious contrast.

Featured is a hand painted Plaque of Anastasia Steele an Christian Grey, painted with black and white edible colours with slight pops of colour.

The cake is finished off with a hand piped cake lace mask and bright red sugar roses for that pop of colour.

I chose 50 Shades of Grey because I think it does have a building, sexy, captivating type of romance, entangled with a dark side of love and how Christian Grey Expresses that love. I portrayed this by using mostly dark tones which has an essence of the unknown but courage to be able to see past all that like Anastasia does. I wanted to bring a pop of colour into it with the red, and red being the colour of love and Valentines Day. I loved being able to get the chance to do some painting again and my inspiration came from a photograph. I also enjoyed working with different textures to create the tiers

I made a teaser video for my cake, watch it here: https://vimeo.com/homeofthecakeartist/50shadesofcake

50 Shades of Cake from Vicki Smith on Vimeo.

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