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Monday, April 21, 2008
Birthday Bash
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
These gum paste flowers are lovingly made for wedding cakes at Sweet Dreams Bakery in downtown Norcross.
Photo: Vino Wong/AJC staff
My weekend was a complete blur — I took the day off Friday to finish my daughter’s 11th birthday cake: a “fairy” cake with a flower fairy enameled in chocolate with gum paste flowers, covered in rolled fondant, surrounded by white chocolate petals. For someone who used to make cakes for a living (blast, I even made my own wedding cake the first time around…) this is the only professional style cake I do anymore. It’s just too stressful and time consuming (though it’s worth it to see her smile).
There are lots of bakeries in town that specialize in this sort of cake, but I’d say the style that best exudes my own as a pastry chef is Highland Bakery, though their stuff is a little funkier than mine. Sugar Cakes on the Square in Marietta has a refined European style that I admire a lot, too.
Even though I’m exhausted today, I still would never let anyone make her cake but me. But my sore feet got me wondering: if I did want to buy a high-end birthday cake, where would I go? What bakeries are the best at specializing in pastillage, fondant, and other sugar arts?
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