When our client, Jemma, told me she wanted to go organic and woodland with lots of moss and overgrowth for her baby shower cake, I couldn’t help but think in a fantasy driven direction. When I think of woodland, I always envision a touch of magic. For this reason, I incorporated some elegance and contrast to the overgrowth with some edible metallic gold elements. Mom and I decided on sugar foxgloves and woodland ferns, for the main design element of this baby shower cake.

As soon as all of this was mentioned and the actual baby shower location being in Eastern Kentucky, almost, in my hometown (Whitesburg, Kentucky) and being in my Grandmother’s hometown (Jenkins, Kentucky), I wanted to document it in the mountains. I scouted locations with Deron for several hours a few weekends before to determine the perfect placement. In my mind, it is an homage to where I’m from, as well as being Jemma’s baby shower cake. I wanted to have an image to look at and finally have a cake documentation that shows off how beautiful the scenery is in Eastern Kentucky, and an image of a cake at home where all of this started. The images are home. I have driven on Pine Mountain often and had always imagined a cake just plopped down amongst the visuals surrounding and in front of mountains and that’s exactly what we did.

I brainstormed with Dad and told him my thoughts, and soon he began planning and creating the tablescape. It’s an entirely different look than what we’ve done before, as always it just depends on what the client’s initial ideas are. I/ we take pride in being able to keep our own style and also go in varying directions depending on the vibe the client is going for/ wants. Day of, I feel everyone was a hair skeptical. I was again making everyone, including, Dad, Deron, and Natasha, my photographer and friend, go to this initial location, before the baby shower, to set everything up on top of Pine Mountain. Dad was intially skeptical of my placement, the Narramore family can’t go anywhere without showing ourselves, even the trees had to hear us fuss. The table had to be level, of course. Since tables always have to be level for cakes! So, we were certainly sculpting with the landscape that day. Using rocks to prop under legs etc. Tearing off surrounding and local grasses. The end result was pure magic. The sun and the breeze were absolute perfection, as we watched Natasha work her own brand of magic with the images.