10 Enchanted Garden Cakes That Are Pure Magic
April 14, 2019 It's National Gardening Day, my friends, and rather than dwell on how TERRIBLE I am at keeping plants alive, I've decided to look at this in a positive light: I'm really good at killing plants.
Another positive?
I can't kill these!
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(Mina Bakalova, Bulgaria)
AND LOOK HOW PRETTY. These colors make me so happy. Ahhh.
Today I decided to branch out (heh) from typical gardening cakes, so I started searching for "Secret Garden" cakes... and wow did that pay off:
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(Sihirli Pastane, Turkey)
EEEEE! I actually gasped, it's so magical. And I must - MUST! - know what the soft grass is made of. Because I want to pet it. :)
This one is more like a surprise garden:
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(Julia Kedyarova, Moscow)
One of the best flower slice cakes I've seen. I especially love the butterflies!
More secret garden vibes:
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(By Freehill, Original Design by Karen Portoleo)
That trompe l'oeil painting is so convincing; I though the cake was actually carved out behind her!
Are enchanted gardens a thing? Because I think this qualifies:
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(Sweet Symphony, India)
The floating hummingbird! SWOON. Plus I've been staring for a while now, and I *still* can't quite tell which of the top tier flowers are painted and which are 3D.
You know what else is incredible? A wearable enchanted garden, which should totally be a thing;
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(Cake Buro, Russia)
Look at the detail in her hair wisps(!!), and the teeny tiny butterflies at the bottom. So much to love here.
Of course I have to include a little Wonderland mushroom garden, right?
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(Elena Gnut Cakes, Russia)
RIGHT.
Elena's painting always blows me away! I love that it's the classic Disney Alice with a Tim Burton feel.
This one reminds me of some sun catchers I had as a kid:
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(Vinism Sugar Art, world-traveling teacher)
Anyone remember the sun catchers where you melted plastic beads into a frame? (Do they still make those?) These colors are so bright, it's like those: like there's bright sunlight streaming through.
It took me a second to spot the couple in this romantic renaissance number:
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(Baker Unknown, help?)
I like the unexpected pops of orange in all those pastels, so pretty!
And finally, my friends, here's an enchanted garden Sweet guaranteed to leave you hanging:
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(La Linia Artful Desserts, Pennsylvania, as featured here)
No words! Just a dropped jaw, BIG EYES, and two grabby hands, ha.
Happy Sunday, my friends! May you find many more Sweet things.
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Reader Comments (18)
I love all those butterflies, especially during the massive migration we've been experiencing lately. And how appropriate that National Gardening Day is on Palm Sunday. :)
Best I can find for @freehill-甜品定制 (it’s all in Chinese, but they’re definitely in China) http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/u/3882925557#type=-1
That cake slice cake with the flowers in the middle -- WOW. I have never seen anything like that before. Totally jaw dropping.
Loved all the cakes -- thanks!
These are all jaw-droppingly amazing! And I'm still not convinced that cake isn't cut out behind that swing.
The Free Hill cake seems to be a Chinese copy of this original, allegedly by Karen Portaleo (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/329888741427190115/)
Thanks for the gardens, I needed the reminder that it's spring. In Colorado we just got more snow dumped on us. sigh.
The lighted door (2nd one) almost blew me away~ but I want to go inside! Golden light beckoning!
=^~.~^=
Re: Flowers you can wear, check out this Oregon artist/gardener: https://www.pbs.org/video/oregon-art-beat-francoise-weeks/
I just love the glow from the opened door; hoping to be asked in, for ......whatever they have in mind....
=^-.-^=
An homage to Fragonard's <I>The Swing</I>?
I'm guessing that the bakery that did the cake with the trompe l'oeil painting is Free Hill Bakery, Coffee and Studio in Wuhan, PRC - they do wonderful stuff. I didn't find a website, but I did find a reference to them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/961193085601492993
I'm weary of all these "cakes" that have been professionally air-brushed. Most are inedible. Yes they'e pretty, but they have little to do with real baking, frosting and decorating a real cake.
Makit Bakit kits (the little melting beads with molds) are still being made. I found some on Amazon.
Those old school suncatchers were called Makit & Bakit and I loved doing them. They do still make them (at least at holiday time) but not nearly as many varieties as we had back in the day
Mabelsc and Kal Knight are both right, Google Translate in Chrome translates this as "Freehill June Premium Fondant Dessert Startup Course":
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_e770bdf50102xzv7.html?type=-1
Keep scrolling, it's in there.
The sliced cake looks too much like the geode vagina. That's all I can see.
Total Swoon on the cake with the hummingbirds on it. And the blue birds did me in too!
How they got flowers inside that slice is a mystery!
Don’t know how anyone can cut into these lovelies.
This is just a guess, but the soft, soft grass in the second one (the one with the golden doorway)? Compressed candy floss (cotton candy) dyed green.