Petite Pause - Jasmine Rae Cakes

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Photo courtesy of Jasmine Rae Cakes

The Art of Dessert

Cakes made in Jasmine Rae’s signature “torn paper effect” feature handmade sugar flowers and leaves blooming from each confection. The fondant layers are rolled paper-thin and applied in relieving layers that soften the tiers’ edges. Jasmine shares, “All of the techniques I use have developed in response to the dry environment of my kitchen space. The thinly rolled fondant sets up faster, allowing me to create deeply relieved forms off the side of the cake, such as the ‘torn paper effect’ depicted here. The techniques I have invented are based on celebrating the natural process. For instance, when I relate to my materials and how they are reacting in the environment, I can select the parts I like and use them to compose my cursory vision into something I could have never designed on paper.”