Last Summer I joined a large group of just female friends for a Sunday Brunch in the West Village. I am blinking out so I cannot remember the restaurant's name but it was very suitable place for a Sunday brunch birthday celebration. So unlike my bright and fun cakes I like to present for birthday celebrations, I decided to go for a low key but something lovely and sweet for Audrey's 25th. The cake was a mildly sweet banana sponge with honey-cinnamon buttercream. I thought that a banana cake was the most breakfast-like cake and I didn't want to overwhelm the other guests with something overly sweet so banana cake in my opinion was the way to go. And instead of fondanting I chose to buttercream the cake with the same buttercream I filled the cakes with. When Audrey told me about her birthday brunch I automatically thought of large windows and a room filled with sunlight. I wanted to work with a soft palette of colors and make a cake that was natural and just lovely. You see, Audrey is very lovely, sweet and down to earth. So I wanted to portray a cake with blossoming flowers that were natural but pretty so I tried out dogwoods. Dogwoods are one of my favorite flowers, the way it lights up a dull tree with flowers is so enchanting. They may be less vibrant and familiar than cherry blossoms but the woodsy and lightly hued dogwoods are my favorite. The abundantly topped dogwoods went naturally with the cinnamon specked ivory buttercreamed cake. I piped some green tinted buttercream to make vine-like growth on the sides of the cake and added the same hued leaves here and there. This would've been almost like a wedding cake top tier but in my opinion I thought I had created a lovely cake suited for my lovely friend on a very lovely Sunday morning.
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