This photo was taken by my son, Henry, and I actually like it. I fiddled around a bit with it on Piknic -- a cool photo tool -- and it's a little dark and a little blurry, but it's rare that I post a photo of myself because I'm terribly vain --
In any case, this is a wedding cake that I made for a friend to give to her friend as a wedding present. The cake is a yellow butter cake with strawberry cream cheese filling and vanilla icing. The flowers are made of fondant.
Look closely at the cake, because tomorrow I'm going to show you another photo of it.
Consider this foreshadowing:
Just thought I'd create a little suspense on the old blog...
Oh no...when I saw your comment at Ms. Moon's place about a wedding cake disaster, I wondered.
ReplyDeleteI am ASTONISHED! It is exquisite. I can't even imagine how you would assemble that with all of the decorative pieces.
ReplyDeleteAnd i LOVE the photo of you and the cake. Congratulations! xo
The cake is beautiful but your beauty outshines it completely. I'm not kidding.
ReplyDeleteI second what Ms. Moon, that smartypants, says. You're just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAlso: I'd still eat that cake, even if it may have fallen onto the floor. Well, maybe not my eau-de-dog-pee floor, but the floor of a more reasonably clean person.
You're a fox, Elizabeth!
both the photo and the subject look dreamy
ReplyDeleteUh Oh. I'm not liking the sound of this. On a brighter note isn't Piknic the bomb? I love taking my wrinkles out before I post.
ReplyDeleteYou are a beautiful woman Elizabeth and I love the photo. What happened to the cake? It's beautiful as well.
ReplyDeleteI love the photo of you, but the beautiful tilting cake is ominous.
ReplyDeleteOh Dear.
ReplyDeleteDo we really have to wait all the way to tomorrow?
I love your photo, you are beautiful. And I understand the vain piece, as I am struck dumb by it every time a camera shows its funny little lens.
OK. I'll just wait.
I love the eaudedogpee floor comment. Add hair.
Wonderful photo! And if you keep posting such photos of such scrumptious cakes, one of these I'm liable to take a bite out of my laptop. I'm just sayin'. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the photo - you are so very beautiful! And that cake is glorious...but not as beautiful as you are. xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteHenry done good. He took a beautiful subject and captured her intriguing spirit. Along with classic beauty, I see love and a touch of hopeful longing. Marvelous.
ReplyDeletethis is such a tender portrait. it speaks softly around the edges yet rings out with light and love.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful picture! But, uh-oh...the suspense is killing me.
ReplyDeleteYou are a lovely baker...indeed.
ReplyDeleteI know the feeling about photos. I am rarely in them...though sometimes I would like to be in a photo...otherwise no one will remember what I looked like in my younger years. I am always behind the camera.
Your caked....looks delicious.
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteOh, and the cake looks good, too. ;-)
I'm reading this back-to-front, so I already know about the foreshadowed disaster. You look so beautiful and serene in this photo (it's a great photo! use it for your bakery site profile or something - really.) But back to disasters... all I can say is "Oy." Life is so like that. Everything is perfect... and then it isn't. I admire your friend's perspective, but I also understand you having a harder time finding it, since you are the baker. But really, I've watched those cake shows, and it happens ALL THE TIME! (And I'll bet they never talk about the "unfixable" disasters.)
ReplyDeleteI would still order a cake from you, in a minute. (It was a beautiful beautiful cake. I would have cried, too.)
You are beautiful. So is the cake. I love how Henry sees you.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and layered in beauty :)
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