One of the perks of being a cake decorator is that you can thumb your nose at the natural world – defy gravity, rediscover the Garden of Eden, create a new species of flower. I mean, do these flowers actually look anything like frangipani? Well, yes actually so that’s not the best example.
But the design of today’s flowers just sprang from my imagination. Do similar flowers exist in the wild? Could be. To find out if I’m a floral plagiarizer or a true original, I turned to this website. With this program, you specify flower colour, number of petals, the shape and breadth of the corolla, the position of the flower, etc. and the site will offer you various options. Yet, after exhaustive research, I found no trace of my blue creation. Sadly, I’m pretty certain I can’t patent it.
The assignment for this celebratory 80th birthday cake was for it to be floral and elegant. I could choose between an orange/earth tones colour palette or blues and greens. Since I’m not particularly partial to orange, it was kind of a no-brainer for me.
Another concern of the customer was that the cake not look too “wedding-y.” Well, for one thing, there’s an enormous 80 gracing the top. I guess it could theoretically be an 80th wedding anniversary cake. That would really be some achievement. (I’m sitting here imagining a tween wedding, actually not all that uncommon for Jews from Arab lands in the last century.) Also, only the name Yehuda is featured, which would make for a somewhat lopsided wedding. Given all that, I’m fairly confident that it doesn’t resemble a wedding cake at all.
Of course if any of you is planning a wedding and happen to fancy this particular design, well I can certainly be convinced that it would make a truly spectacular wedding cake. Rebranding is what it’s all about, right?
