Let Them Eat Cake Photoshoot

Today I had the priviledge of providing some teatime treats for a photo shoot that took place at the Dana Powers House.   The theme for the tea was 'Let them eat cake" and the color of the day was most certainly pink.   I made a small coconut cake, some macarons and some white chocolate strawberries.

Pink roses from Judi's beautiful garden

My mom went and picked some strawberries at Rutiz Farms and

I drizzled them with a little white chocolate and sprinkled a

few with some coconut.  Jerry at Rutiz Farms has the best

strawberries in the world!

And here is where the adventure begins...

I like my cakes to taste good so I refuse to use fondant or 

Crisco frosting .  I frost my cake with cream cheese frosting

and then coat it liberally with coconut.  Normally, not a

problem because I keep them refrigerated.  Today, however

was a different story.  Today I learned that warm days and

cakes with cream cheese frosting aren't the best match.

As the shoot was getting set-up the sides of the cake

started falling- coconut and all.  We patched it up the

best we could but it was definitely not as pretty as

when it arrived.  Lesson learned!

I had made  edible white chocolate cameos which we didn't  end 

up using but I like how sweet and girly they look so I

am sure I will make them again for a future project.