What’s In The Oven?
I’ve been baking lots of sweets in The Cardboard Kitchen lately. This cupcake was inspired by all the amazing cupcakes that are produced in the kitchen’s of the Flickr bakers. If you look closely at the mise en place pic below, you can see that this cupcake, in the center of my work table, is almost finished. In the same pic I am working on the fondant rose.
I bake just like all bakers: I need the cupcake paper first so I create that first; then the cake, the frosting, decorate, and place the finished cupcake on the doily which I create to fit. And those Flickr bakers are so right when they say in order to make a fondant rose, you have to practice, practice, practice! I had to make the roses for this cupcake twice before I got it right!
Art On The Menu is the test kitchen of a foodie artist. From the humble to the haute, cardboard to paint, I never read a recipe without a brush or glue in my hand.
» A Morning At Art On The Menu on 15 Nov 2010 at 1:41 am #
[...] After leaving the post office, I visit one of my regular recycle bins. It’s parked outside of an art supply store. I choose my cardboard carefully, and it has to be clean (no food containers in the bins). The cardboard from the art supply recycle is clean and sturdy since it’s used to ship delicate supplies. Because it’s strong, I like it for armatures, and monochromatic cardboard colored pieces like this cupcake. [...]