This is Shaun’s photo of the lavender cake before I added the taller flowers and transferred it from the cake saver to the tile. The pink color of the cake shows up better here. I…
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This is Shaun’s photo of the lavender cake before I added the taller flowers and transferred it from the cake saver to the tile. The pink color of the cake shows up better here. I…
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Adam and Cindy make the first cut into the Lilikoi Chiffon Cake. Warning! Do not read further if you are not within walking distance to a cup of hot coffee and a buttery delicious piece…
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Here is the cake display. What a relief… no dropped cakes, no leaking cakes, no transit damage.
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And here it is! The final Lilikoi Chiffon Cake. The flavor of Adam’s childhood in a cake. People who weren’t really tired of eating the numerous variations of passion fruit filling that preceeded this final…
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This cake is light pink with white borders. The rose petals on top were picked from Kris’ mom’s garden, brushed tenderly with egg white and lightly dipped in superfine sugar. Then they were dried until…
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This is the actual wedding cake. As a result of its popularity, there are no photos of the taster cakes. The chipotle is in the cake batter. The filling is vanilla bean and cinnamon-flavored chocolate…
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Time to move on to the lavender rose petal cake. The filling for this cake is rose lavender chamomile mousseline. Mousseline means pastry cream with lots of butter beaten into it. Melt in your mouth…
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My friend Kathi happened to have a birthday during the two weeks of cake development. She mentionned that she liked passion fruit and I just happened to have a batch of passion fruit filling and…
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Adam’s and Cindy’s wedding was this past Saturday, two weeks after Shaun’s and Kris’ wedding. They wanted Chocolate Chipotle, Lavender Rose Petal, and Lilikoi (Passion Fruit) Chiffon 10″ cakes. I started working on the passion…
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Shaun and Kris head to the ocean with an offering for the Goddess of the ocean in celebration of their marriage. The wedding party followed with more roses. Tourists on the beach were seen videotaping…
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