Sunday Sweets: Autumn Awesomeness in Atlanta
October 26, 2008 Today's Sweets are brought to you by Highland Bakery in Atlanta, Georgia. The folks over at Highland routinely churn out the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous creations the South has ever seen, and I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite. So instead, I just chose some season-appropriate lovelies.
Doesn't this look like a giant Hallmark figurine? (I mean that in a good way.)
The cobblestones, the twisty vines, the gnarled posts! There's so much more to this cake than the cutesy mice. (Although the mice are pretty darn adorable, I must admit.)
I don't think I've ever seen sugar art looks so much like porcelain - just look at those leaves!
Mmm, sugary mushrooms...
Next up: a perfect pumpkin:
I just love the simple design and creamy colors. I think cakes overall should use more orange, too, don't you? Year-round, I mean: orange is just underused.
Many thanks to Karen and the gang over at Highland Bakery for the lovely work, and for not hanging up on John when he said he was calling from Cake Wrecks. ;)
Reader Comments (105)
It's so beautiful I don't know if I could bring myself to eat it. I love every bit of it and the mice are just too cute ^.^
I have just spent a sick sunday in bed, looking at each photo and entry of your blog. I must say, thank you for making a sick sunday a little more bearable! I will now be on the lookout for cake wrecks.
Thank you!!
This is my local bakery! I am so excited to see it on Cake Wrecks! My husband and I go to breakfast at Highland Bakery at least a couple of days a week. Their bagels are just divine. I've seen these cakes in person and they are so pretty!
I remember my mom and dad told me that there wedding cake was a wreck! They asked to have the cake made to look like the place they were getting married, with layers built up to make a hill. Well the people made the layers out of icing! So there was like 4 inches of bright green icing that all melted and sagged down making something so far away from what they wanted! It is sad that they didnt take a picture then!
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How can you want to eat that? It looks so purdy! The mice so cute!!!
I have a feeling these cakes are the kind of cakes that peopl take tons of photos before even making a dent in the icing/fondant/cake.
Please. The comment about orange being under used is going to be taken out of context. Think woman! You have to use you (super) powers for good and not evil.
these are gorgeous! I have to say I love your blog and even got my husband hooked. we were in the grocery store today and as we passed some particularly sad looking halloween cakes in the bakery--he remarked--"you should take a picture of those and send it to Cake Wrtecks"!
Wow, that is an absolutely gorgeous cake!
OMG Jaw dropping beautiful!! ITA about orange being under used.
Gorgeous picks for today! I love when you post your wrecks, but Sundays are great too to show off the cakes that ARE good! :)
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Wow! Those are amazing! I've never seen anything like that. They're too pretty to eat.
hahaha to anna (above poster)
thanks for the laugh on this otherwise very sweet sunday ;)
much appreciated!
gorgeous! This is why when I pass Pood Network and they have a cake challenge...I stop and am entranced!
If I hadn't seen this on your site, I would have thought it was a figurine. It is amazing!
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they are so beautiful!!!
greetz Tanja
I wouldn't have a fridge big enough for that one! Huge and very ornate - a shame to eat.
Yes, that is what pumpkin stems and tendrils are supposed to look like: graceful curves and spirals, not flat, icky wormlike squiggles!
And those 'shrooms look exactly like the crispy cocoa-dusted meringue creations my grandmother used to make. I'd be swooping down on those first if I was presented with this cake.
Thank you all for the kind comments! And thank you John, for featuring my stuff! Can't wait to send links telling everyone I made it to Cake Wrecks (but in a good way!)
I have loved this site since the first time I saw it. People have walked in to my office to see what I'm laughing so loudly at.
Cheers!
Karen Portaleo
Highland Bakery
I love highland bakery. Their cakes are beautiful and their food and sweets are yummy. If you are ever in downtown Atlanta, hit them up. Be prepared for a long wait during brunch hours though. oh and the jalepeno foccacia is the best bread ever!!!!
They have a bustier cake.... xD
It IS gorgeous, but how much of it is actually cake?
These look absolutely delicious! I honest to heaven do not understand "not being able to eat the art". If Monet/Dega's works were as tasty as these cakes look we'd have no museums because of people like me. I mean, cake...
Gorgeous!! The only wrecktastic part of a cake like this is something my sister once said about fondant: I can only imagine how much this was TOUCHED by other people. Yum
This is one of the most beautiful cakes I have ever seen!
I don't have to eat it. The cuteness is enough to give you a sugar rush. How adorable are those mice!?
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that is fantastic!! I wonder what they do with cakes like this when they're done, surely thy don't eat them?
Aw, I would buy that sad looking ghostie cake just because I felt sorry for it! :-)
ZOWIE! These are lovely, just spectacular! What is it about pumpkins/gourds that are so cheery? Call me weird, but fields of pumpkins or pumpkins/gourds and harvest corn in festive displays always bring a smile to my face.
These cakes are works of art! I am speechless! Wonderful stuff!
This bakery is fantastic. My sister lives in Atlanta and knows it well
Dear Lord - THAT is one BEAUTIFUL cake!
Went to the website to see some more beauty and found a groom's head cake mixed up within the mounds of gorgeous - check it out.
I live in Atlanta but have never visted this bakery. When in the Highlands, I typically go to Alon's but I will definitely check it out!
They are gorgeous! Almost too lovely to eat...but who am I kidding? I'd eat them anyway! The mice are so cute....
What a charming cake! I particularly like the mice, and the red shawl on what I assume is the mama mouse.
There is a wonderful kids' film, "The Secret of Nihm" with the most beautiful animation! The mother mouse wore a red shawl, and the cake falls into the same style as the movie.
So, there might be an influence, which is a Good Thing. ;-)
Holy 987598746 pounds of fondant, Batman!
What a gorgeous creation!
This is absolutely amazing! I would never cut it! I'd just preserve it!
Those are just AWESOME. So cool.
OMG...that is not a cake, but a work of art!
Such beautiful detail! OwO
I love insanely (and tasteful) detailed cakes~
Oh I absolutely adore this cake. :)
Amazing!! I have never seen anything edible like it. Just beautiful!!
This post was just pretty! what a lot of work and detail for a cake!
What a gorgeous cake!
I've been to the Highland Bakery, and it is FABOO!
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I'm not eating mice no matter what they're made of!
my boyfriend works at this bakery! this cake was amazing in person and so was watching the staff keep kids from poking their fingers in it :)
Thank you very much for this useful article and the comments.
I would not eat that....I wold get it sprayed with those food preservative sprays...and keep it for a center piece every year.
I would not eat that....I wold get it sprayed with those food preservative sprays...and keep it for a center piece every year.
This is quite possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! I'm obsessed with mushrooms, punkins & all things fall. In fact, the only things on this cake NOT tattooed somewhere on my body are the mice. And that's only cos I didn't see this before...
(That's right, I said "punkins.")