What a gem of a cake artist studio. And we wish we could share the recipe for their triple chocolate spice cookie with you (but we're working on it).
We visited City Cake's Marc Matthias to get a feel for what the ultimate cakes look like in New York and were blown away by the attention to detail and creativity of the team behind this leading studio.
With clients like Kate's Paperie (the exquisite green cymbidium orchid cake you can see above and alongside, and more on this incredible stationery store soon), Rachel Ray (an extraordinarily detailed bowl of spaghetti bologonese on a red and white checked place mat) and a couple who commissioned a massive $US4000 crocodile cake for their reception at the top of the Rockerfeller Centre (they'd married in a swamp), chef Marc Matthias and cake artist Benny Rivera, are on the city's must-call list for event cakes with a difference.
We loved this tower of cushions in their window, the detail of the cherry blossom (see below), the whimsy of their royalty cake which took a painstaking 20 hours to create and mould (see below), and being able to take a peek at the original artworks that are the starting point for each and every one of the cakes that you can see here. And unlike a lot of the cake studios in Australia - they still bake their own on site, specialising in the liquor soaked cakes that are a Latin American speciality. Harder to mould...but so worth the effort when it comes to eating them.
We asked Marc what the hottest cake trends in NYC are, and he said it's all about the personal (the alligator cake case in point). Whilst corporate clients have always aimed for a cake that represents them, their message or the fun of the theme party they are staging, wedding couples are finally moving away from the traditional and incorporating motifs and designs that mean something to them (at Form Over Function we've been encouraging this for some time, too).
Marc shows us photos of the chic, sleek wedding cake enveloped in octopus tentacles because it meant something to the couple, as well as a dizzying array of grooms cakes which are apparently hot, hot, hot. Bride gets the pretty, chic or whimsical cake of her dreams; groom gets the car/the golf bag/the surfboard cake of his dreams (one had a butt cake created - yes, a female derriere in red knickers).
The grooms cake is not a trend that has taken off in Australia yet, but we work with cake designers who would love to see this happen. It's quite a nice idea really, especially when it's a wedding where the bride gets the whole thing to look like her vision, rather than theirs (something we try to gently discourage at Form Over Function - it's a wedding for two, not one after all).
Enjoy the edible inspiration.Alicia x
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