I've had many people ask me how I get inspiration for my cakes and my answer is often pretty lame... Google. Haha! (Isn't that where all ideas come from now a days?) Anyways, it is pretty simple with me. When people ask me to make a cake they usually have some sort of idea or picture in mind. I do a bit of research (Google Images and CakeCentral.com), build a concept based on ideas or pictures of cakes I find, and then add my own flare to the thing. My flare usually involves a lot of small detail that takes painstaking hours to complete but truthfully, that is hands down my favorite part.
I have one cake that is kind of my pride and joy when thinking about how it was inspired. I love it so much for the following reasons:
1) It is just plain awesome.
2) I came up with the idea completely on my own... mostly because I was hungry and really wanted Fruit Loops but the point is it is my idea and I love it.
3) I made it on a pleasant Sunday afternoon with my roommate, Alexis, and we had a complete blast doing it.
Sometimes with my cakes I start to feel like I am pushing the boundaries of "borrowing ideas" from other cake designers which I really don't like. To be truthfully honest, sometimes I duplicate other people's designs. For example, Aimee brought me a picture of a Martha Stewart cake for her wedding and said, "I want this." I guess I like my Fruit Loop cake so much because my worrywart self doesn't worry about that aspect at all. Granted, I guess I did get my inspiration from the old school Cheerio commercials with the strawberry falling gracefully in slow motion into the bowl of cereal. Maybe I just need to accept that you can find inspiration everywhere and that really I need to look for inspiration in my day to day life. Wow... this cake blog post is getting much too philosophical. Let's just post the pictures and ooh and ahh because let's face it, that's why cake blogs exist.
Yay cake!!
I have one cake that is kind of my pride and joy when thinking about how it was inspired. I love it so much for the following reasons:
1) It is just plain awesome.
2) I came up with the idea completely on my own... mostly because I was hungry and really wanted Fruit Loops but the point is it is my idea and I love it.
3) I made it on a pleasant Sunday afternoon with my roommate, Alexis, and we had a complete blast doing it.
Sometimes with my cakes I start to feel like I am pushing the boundaries of "borrowing ideas" from other cake designers which I really don't like. To be truthfully honest, sometimes I duplicate other people's designs. For example, Aimee brought me a picture of a Martha Stewart cake for her wedding and said, "I want this." I guess I like my Fruit Loop cake so much because my worrywart self doesn't worry about that aspect at all. Granted, I guess I did get my inspiration from the old school Cheerio commercials with the strawberry falling gracefully in slow motion into the bowl of cereal. Maybe I just need to accept that you can find inspiration everywhere and that really I need to look for inspiration in my day to day life. Wow... this cake blog post is getting much too philosophical. Let's just post the pictures and ooh and ahh because let's face it, that's why cake blogs exist.
Yay cake!!
Oh, and here are some pictures of Aimee and JB's wedding. Please note, the design is Martha Stewart's, not my own. Haha!
that wedding cake is amazing! and the fruit loops one is so awesome. it looks perfect! you're so talented.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you make the fruit loops out of? Sugar paste? Good job Randi! I'm impressed.
ReplyDeleteThe fruit loops are just made out of fondant. I remember we rolled them on something after to try and give them a fruit loop texture. You can't see it there but they were pretty awesome.
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